OT-gas cans- favorites?
 

Anybody have some favorites when it comes to gas cans and why? TIA Pat

Avoid having to buy a gas can in California. Our state bureaucrats have
decided that too many fumes were leaking when a standard gas can was used,
so they designed a nozzle system that spills more gas outside the vehicle
than gets into the tank and it takes forever to empty the can.

--

Roger Shoaf

About the time I had mastered getting the toothpaste back in the tube, then
they come up with this striped stuff.


"patrick mitchel" wrote in message
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Anybody have some favorites when it comes to gas cans and why? TIA Pat

On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 20:18:57 -0800, "Roger Shoaf"
wrote:

Avoid having to buy a gas can in California. Our state bureaucrats have
decided that too many fumes were leaking when a standard gas can was used,
so they designed a nozzle system that spills more gas outside the vehicle
than gets into the tank and it takes forever to empty the can.

I believe if you read the fine print, it is forbidden to use the new
spouts to fuel on-road vehicles. They are for fueling small, off-road
devices only. (I guess you just aren't supposed to ever run your car
out of gas...)

I have one of the new CARB-legal spouts. The sliding part that is
suposed to snap closed when you lift it from your filler neck worked
for about a week, but is now almost impossible to move. I suspect the
mandated MTBE in our gas has caused the plastic to swell up and stick.

So, you point the spout straight down into the opening, force it open,
the fuel sprays out all around the end in a circle, and you have to
try to lift it up and out and tip it down to stop the flow when the
automatic valve fails - what a mess!

And they made it impossible to buy replacement rubber gaskets for
existing "Jerry" cans in California. For want of a $0.99 gasket we are
supposed to trash a perfectly good $30 metal can? (You can still order
gaskets from out-of-state, but shipping and handling swamps the actual
price.)

Finally, everyone sells the new plastic replacement "CARB" spouts, but
the simple adapter from old 2" pipe thread to new plastic spout is
unobtainium (except with a new steel can). If the new shutoff spout
worked, I wouldn't mind converting mine, but you just can't buy the
simple one-piece adapter.

/rant (Sorry!)

Loren

patrick mitchel wrote:
Anybody have some favorites when it comes to gas cans and why? TIA
Pat

For what purpose? Off-roading, lawnmower/chainsaw/leafblower, long
term storage for a generator or what? I like the plastic ones that run
about 2 gallons that the chain auto parts joints sell for lawn tools
and the like, they're light, don't rust, don't tip over in a vehicle
and you can readily see how much you have in the container. Blitz is
the brand of the ones I have. Downside is that they bloat like a dead
dog in the heat of summer, metal cans will do that, too, but not as
badly.

Unless it's for playing Rat Patrol with jeeps, I don't have a lot of
use for the old jerry can. Biggest problem with those is that they
rust and gas always has a little water in it. I once drained a plastic
container in sub-freezing weather and had a slug of ice in the bottom
about the size of a silver dollar.

Blitz also had a 5 gallon version, it's got a handle in the side for
easier pouring. Not as stable when moving it around in a vehicle,
though.

Stan