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When exactly was it decided that a gas can should take three hands and a prehensile tail to operate all the locks, interlocks, outerlocks, safeties, failsafes and overrides on a modern red plastic gas can while juggling 40 pounds of gas with one hand? It's a first world problem, I've been in places where gas was carried in buckets and glass jugs, but isn't a brass screen spark arrester/gurgle stopper enough? Where can I get a can that opens and pours without an instrument flight rating and PhDs in quantum mechanics and Eastern Philosophies? And 40 beans for just enough plastic to hold 5 gallons? Lastly, according to the zit-faced kid who has his finger on the pump kill switch it is actually a federal case when I show up at the inconvenience store with empty Mountain Dew 2-liter bottles and a funnel to buy ethanol with some fuel in it. At least I don't try to carry it in plastic bags. | ||
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I bought a 5 gallon for my lawn machines. Oh my, what a PITA to use. Stupid me got tired of the 1 gallon one and having to fill it so bought the 5 gallon. Big mistake and friends have said the exact same thing. You can buy VP MX jugs on Amazon. I think they are 5 gallon. I use them for carrying spare fuel for my PWC for lake refills so I don’t have to buy gas on the water. They operate old school and extremely simple. You buy separately a lid with a hose on the end and they work extremely well. What am I doing? I'm talking to an empty telephone | |||
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I have a couple of the EPA-tarded gas cans and replaced the spouts with ones that actually pour. I used the EZ-Pour brand from Bezos Bazaar and they've worked nicely. You'll have to check to see what works with your type of can. EZ-Pour spouts @ Amazon "Every time you think you weaken the nation" Moe Howard | |||
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Old school— Wavian gas cans. | |||
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Even those can pinch at certain angles. I’ve seen some bend holder adaptors to help. | |||
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Fighting the good fight |
Eagle brand gas cans. Metal construction, and the spout is way better than the multi-step EPA-compliant non-spill nozzles on plastic cans these days. https://eagle.justrite.com/saf...cans/type-i?color=13 | |||
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This. Without question. Last I looked, Lexington Container Co. still sold (somehow) old fashioned jerry can nozzles to go with them as well. I have several. I spill less gas than with any of the no-spill garbage I’ve tried. -Rob I predict that there will be many suggestions and statements about the law made here, and some of them will be spectacularly wrong. - jhe888 A=A | |||
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Buy Wavians from Atlantic British. www.roverparts.com Or you can get a commercial can. I personally prefer a JustRite Type II. Quit your cryin’ and start your buyin’. $100 for a JustRite might seem like a lot for a gas can, but you’ll only need to buy one and it will last a lifetime. https://www.amazon.com/Justrit...2%2Caps%2C220&sr=8-3 Demand not that events should happen as you wish; but wish them to happen as they do happen, and you will go on well. -Epictetus | |||
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I have 5 of them. Great cans. I also have a couple of rotopax for the 4Runner and motorcycles. Diligentia, Vis, Celeritas "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." -- George Orwell | |||
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The amount of fuel spilled because of these EPS mandated containers, far exceed any amount that otherwise would occur with containers we had that worked. "the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב! | |||
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Has anyone used a battery powered pump like this? https://www.sportystoolshop.co...l-transfer-pump.html They look good but not sure if they work as advertised. Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust. | |||
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The Justrite type 2s are all I use. They are an investment that lasts. They (and the Wavians also) come in colors, red for gas, yellow for diesel, blue for kerosene, and green for oil. When in doubt, mumble | |||
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Yeah I have exactly ONE of those hippie idiot nozzles. Replaced it with a “water can” nozzle after the first use. | |||
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Go jerry! https://www.jerrycan.com/ ________________________________________ -- Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past me I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. -- | |||
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This^^^. I've got 6 of the VP 5 gallon cans with the bender.  | |||
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For long term gas storage, I use Wavians. I’ve stored gas in them for half a decade and the gas was like new (E free + Stabil + Seafoam). For daily use, I use JustRite Type II. For going to the lake and filling the boat, I have ten or so VP racing cans. I have a lot of gas cans, more than thirty, but zero EPA compliant ones. Demand not that events should happen as you wish; but wish them to happen as they do happen, and you will go on well. -Epictetus | |||
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Tractor Supply: $20 gas can. I bought three of the above and they are not that bad. Still slower than a real gas can, but the spout is stout enough to hold the weight of the full can when tipped upside down. There’s a lip on the mechanism to keeps the valve open when used this way. I used these to fill the Sea-Doo without spillage. You do have make sure you orient the vent portion of the nozzle such that the gas doesn’t pour across it. | |||
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