More on gas cans
I’ve mentioned before that if you know anyone who doesn’t mind government regulation, have them go buy a gas can. Well, someone else is talking about it too:
so I had to get a can of gas from the local car shop. I started to pour it in. But, hmmm, this is strange. The nozzle doesnt quite go in. I tilted it up and tried to jam it in.
I waited. Then I noticed gas pouring all down the side of the car. So I pulled it out and experimented by pouring it on the ground. There was some weird contraption on the outside and it wasnt clear how it worked.
I poured more and more on the ground. Some got on my shoe. Some got on my hands. Some got on my suit.
Gas was everywhere really everywhere but in the tank. It was a gassy mess. If someone had lit a match, I would have been a goner.
Yeah, I’ve only ever spilled it in the driveway or in grass. You can, of course, unfuck your gas can. Or buy the military style cans, they sell them at Amazon.
February 15th, 2016 at 6:41 pm
Also, you can replace a spout on an old can, or unfuck a new can by using spouts from these people http://ezpourspout.com/
About a $10 option.
I had about a dozen old gas cans with broken/cracked spouts. These were cheaper than buying a new can and they work.
February 15th, 2016 at 8:25 pm
“I’m from the government and I’m here to help you.”
February 15th, 2016 at 8:58 pm
The best place to get quality functional gas cans cheaper than the new unusable ones are at garage and estate sales. I’ve snapped up enough “like new” old ones that, hopefully, I won’t ever have to cuss the unelected gruberment bureaucrats while I “fix” a new gas can.
I’ve thought a time or two to wrap up the really nice ones and give ’em to my kids for Christmas!
Those new unusable gas cans exemplify the state of our current, intrusive and idiotic gruberment, IMHO.
Good fix it video, by the way…
February 15th, 2016 at 9:15 pm
Yup, ez pour + valve stem makes em work like an old can. Use one ez pour nozzle for all your cans and just use the original nut from each can with the ez pour nozzle. If you want to store long term keep the original unmolested nozzle for storage (since they are made to be air tight) and leave the valve core in the valve stem.
February 15th, 2016 at 11:36 pm
Does the EZ Pour let air in as well as gas out? The new cans don’t have a vent if I recall correctly, so you’ll wind up with glug glug instead of a smooth flow.
February 16th, 2016 at 12:35 am
Not to be an advertisement for ez pour, but yes they come with a vent. Drill a 1/2″ hole in the can and push in the vent. It has a screw on cap.
They work really well to salvage old cans with messed up spouts.
February 16th, 2016 at 12:44 am
Had a gas can in my car in college. Started to smell some nauseous fumes on the way to college. Leaked three quarters of it in my tank. Luckily, I had just enough to get my car going when I ran out of gas in the middle of a winter’s night on the way to college. Never again! I picked up two jerry cans!
February 16th, 2016 at 1:02 am
May want to check out the reviews at Amazon. A fair percentage were not too happy with the cans.
February 16th, 2016 at 10:40 am
Our local ag supply has a half aisle of the new cans, next to a giant bin of replacement nozzles/vents, ‘for repair of old cans only’. Because, y’know, those old vents fail so often.
But rant aside, check out ‘No-Spill’ brand cans. They’re not cheap, but not that much more than a new can plus ‘repair kit’. They’re an improvement on even the old cans. I’ve only had mine for a year or so, so I can’t say whether the nozzle mechanism will last 20 years, but so far I really like it.
February 16th, 2016 at 11:08 am
Those Amazon jerry cans are shitty imitations. The real things aren’t much more expensive. The difference in quality is night and day. Buy them here: http://www.lexingtoncontainercompany.com/Nato-Jerry-Cans.html
I have no affiliation with the company, but I’ve bought from them a few times.
February 16th, 2016 at 2:07 pm
As much of a Goobermint component there is to the gas can mess, you can lay *at least* as much of the blame on fucking bloodsucking lawyer scum.
Remember, it’s the 99% that give the 1% a bad name.
Search Blitz USA gas cans. They spent 5 million dollars to WIN the first lawsuit filed against them.
Did they make an inferior product? Dunno, I never had a problem with one. Of course I didn’t use one to pour more gas on a lit bonfire either.
February 16th, 2016 at 3:10 pm
It’s sad that ‘unfuck’ has to be in our lexicon now. More to come.
February 17th, 2016 at 12:43 am
If the Feds were paying attention, they would have seen how stupid and counterproductive the new designs were. The highways of CA were littered with these idiotic cans after CA mandated their use around 2001.
I was told that it was the MBTA(?) fuel additive that got them so agitated, as that shit traveled through the ground very easily, to poison ground water. (Another great CA idea)
It could take 10 minutes to empty a 1 gal can without vent. People stuck on the side of the road were not going to put up with traffic whizzing by their ear, while playing silly games with that piece of shit. After a couple minutes of dribbling gas out the nozzle, they would remove the whole thing, and pour it AT the tank filler, since they were all recessed. Maybe half made it into the tank. At some point, they would give up and throw it on the ground, get the car started and drive off.
I patrolled the freeways during that time, and I would check those cans. Lots of them were squashed on the shoulder, and the spill evidence was often visible. Almost all of them were the new designs. It was rare to find an old style abandoned. I carried a funnel just for using with those new style cans, if I encountered someone attempting to fuel their car. No one wanted them back after being emptied.
LOTS of gasoline continues to hit the ground since the imposition of that idiotic idea. Of course, they cannot admit a mistake was made. I think everyone who was involved in forcing that down our throats should be hung from the nearest lightpost. Only that sort of penalty will get their attention. Nothing else seems to.