Oil & Fuel A quick 5 gallon fuel container rant

[LBrown59]

Pat (Are we comparing dorsal fins?)

Just rolling drums out for barrels of fun

 

[Soundguy]

I feel a polka coming on.. " roll ..out..the.. barrell.."

soundgy

 

[LBrown59]

I feel a polka coming on.. " roll ..out..the.. barrell.."

soundgy

lollol

 

[radioman]

I feel a polka coming on.. " roll ..out..the.. barrell.."

soundgy

doh!!!

 

[gemini5362]

we'll have a barrel of fun

 

[N80]

I read through this hole post hoping I'd get an answer but didn't. I don't mind the 5 gallon yellow plastic jugs. I just don't like the ventless part. As several people mentioned here, just adding a hole solve that problem. But, I'd like a better way to plug the hole than a screw or something like that.

Anyone have any ideas of how to add a vent that you can really seal properly?

 

[LBrown59]

Anyone have any ideas of how to add a vent that you can really seal properly?

I just take the whole spout off the can and stick the end of the hose coiled on the hose hanger in the can and pump the fuel right out.

 

[kidr]

I read through this hole post hoping I'd get an answer but didn't. I don't mind the 5 gallon yellow plastic jugs. I just don't like the ventless part. As several people mentioned here, just adding a hole solve that problem. But, I'd like a better way to plug the hole than a screw or something like that.

Anyone have any ideas of how to add a vent that you can really seal properly?

use a tubless tire valve stem. Take out the valve replace the cap. Makes any can super fast. Not my idea ,stole it from some one on this site.

 

[Lunk]

I read through this hole post hoping I'd get an answer but didn't. I don't mind the 5 gallon yellow plastic jugs. I just don't like the ventless part. As several people mentioned here, just adding a hole solve that problem. But, I'd like a better way to plug the hole than a screw or something like that.

Anyone have any ideas of how to add a vent that you can really seal properly?

When I get the can home, I heat a tapered metal punch with my MAPP torch, and melt a hole about 2/3 the size of the coarse-thread 3/8" screw eye that I'm using for the plug. Screw it in while the plastic's still semi-molten, and let cool.

They don't leak (knock wood), and the 1"+ diameter eyelet makes it easy turn in or out.

Lunk

 

[davitk]

I read through this hole post hoping I'd get an answer but didn't. I don't mind the 5 gallon yellow plastic jugs. I just don't like the ventless part. As several people mentioned here, just adding a hole solve that problem. But, I'd like a better way to plug the hole than a screw or something like that.

Anyone have any ideas of how to add a vent that you can really seal properly?

George, I realize that you live several hundred miles from here but we have a local 'Farm and Fleet' that sells vented diesel cans as I bought a couple this summer. However I still prefer my unvented cans: remove the cap, hoist it up and dump it into a funnel. Quick and easy.