RANT New "safety" gas cans?

[mapper]

Have to laugh, thought the same thing.

Still haven't filled her up yet, I'm afraid to

Lucky I have enough spares of the "old style".

Wait until you try to get fuel into the can with that strainer in place. Got one like that, it was impossible to fill, the strainer was not ment to be removed. It works great now, strainer surgically removed, and vent installed.

 

[mapper]

Got to love those "safety spouts " with the little hook on the bottom that allows the spout to open when it's pushed down, then it buckles under the weight of the full can....

 

[bcp]

I suspect no officials of the can companies use their cans on a regular basis, if ever..

Bruce

 

[ponytug]

100% agree.

 

[jaxs]

I've said it a hunred times and will say it again. 90% of problems in the world can be traced to overpopulation or lawyers. Were it not for lawyers,gas cans would look the same today as 50 years ago. Someone mentioned Blitz above. They were bankrupted by an idiot that splashed gas from a Blitz can onto a bonfire and his lawyer. He didn't splash gas on his lawyer, just the fire.

 

[Alan W.]

Pulled the springs out of my politically correct cans. I can now slide the mechanism closed or open with my hand and it stays there no pressure required.
I then violated them by placing a metal tire valve in them for a vent.
All is good now.

 

[PILOON]

Then my car has a safety cap to prevent venting fumes.
Dang cap sent a code and replacement was $80.+.
Well I vent more fumes when I do a fill up at the pump.
So guess what? I replaced with regular cap and covered the warning light with black tape.
Car does not care.

 

[Richard]

I need to go get a picture as I can't find them anywhere online.

My local co-op has some yellow plastic cans. The mouth for them is maybe 3-3 1/2" diameter. Straight hose on top. VERY VERY VERY easy to fill and to empty, just open the vent and let it rip.

I have to hoist my cans atop my tractor which means I have to lift them to the operators platform, then hoist them to the hood (might be five feet off the ground?? It's an International 1066)

Anyway, then I tilt, then lay them down then hold upside down as their weight goes down.

I've never seen them but I LOVE the big mouth on them. Down side, I've kinked the hose so went to a hose supply and replaced with longer hose so I have more lay-down options.

I'll attempt to get a picture between work.

I think they were about $35 each which I think is over kill BUT, I don't have any of the issues the other cans have.

 

[MossRoad]

I suspect no officials of the can companies use their cans on a regular basis, if ever..

Bruce

I can think back many times in my life, while using something that was not working the way I'd want it to work, and where I've said to myself "I'll bet these guys never use their own product."

It's universal!

 

[MossRoad]

I've said it a hunred times and will say it again. 90% of problems in the world can be traced to overpopulation or lawyers. Were it not for lawyers,gas cans would look the same today as 50 years ago. Someone mentioned Blitz above. They were bankrupted by an idiot that splashed gas from a Blitz can onto a bonfire and his lawyer. He didn't splash gas on his lawyer, just the fire.

It ended up being dozens of cases, not just that initial one. The premise was that it happened so often that they should have put a flame arrester in the spout, but didn't.