Diesel Fuel Can

[dknarnd]

I like these Steel Safety Cans for use. I have had two of the 5 gallon ones for 25 years now and they still work great. They are a little expensive but work excellent, you have total control over the pouring of fuel from these cans. They are not like the plastic ones that always leak around the spout. Don't know how many plastic ones I have gone through in that same 25 year span.

 

[CaptainU]

Hey 1962, I noticed the same problem with the filler hole size when I was at our local Fleet Farm. The gas (red) and diesel (yellow) had the same size filler hole. I asked the attendant there how many had been sold and how many had been returned and he didn't know. I told him that they can't be filled unless you use a funnel at the Gas Station because the diesel nozzle is larger than the gas nozzle, he said oh. The next time I went to Fleet Farm they were all off the shelf, go figure.
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[jwnge]

Fleet Farm in our area keeps their diesel pump turned off till they see what you are putting it in.. I tried putting it in a red can and the attendant came to the door and said it had to go into a yellow container, right,, the green Dodge filling up didnt have any problems.. I did go inside and buy one of the yellow "gasoline cans", couldn't have been made for diesel as the nozzle barely fit and you had to fill it very slowly with nozzle out of can cause if you put the noz into the can it would spray all over. I now will use my painted metal outboard motor can with the large filler hole and will just pump it into tractor. also is much more stable sitting on the ground or wherever you put it...

 

[SteveInMD]

I agree it makes good sense - I have the correct color cans myself. I've just never seen proof that it's a law that applies to average home owners. I wouldn't be surprised if some gas station attendants think they are upholding the law, but are just mis-applying the rules to the wrong people.

 

[Berniep]

<font color="blue">I tried putting it in a red can and the attendant came to the door and said it had to go into a yellow container, right,, the green Dodge filling up didnt have any problems.. </font>

Thanks for the laugh. I bout fell outa my chair when it hit me what you were saying.

 

[RWEST]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I like these Steel Safety Cans for use. )</font>
Hey dknarnd. Which specific Safety Can are you using?

Man, is that McMaster-Carr a great place or what? /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[beowulf]

You can get a yellow 5 gallon diesel can with approved no spill spout (very convenient) at Napa for about $30 like I did, or you can go to Walmart and get one for about $15. I bought my second one there. Both are labeled "Diesel". Having yellow for diesel is very convenient - no worry about making a mistake or having someone else make a mistake with gas and diesel.

 

[hudr]

I worry more about the color of the diesel than I do the color of the can.
Sidenote: If the can its going into is supposed to be yellow, why are all the diesel pumps around here marked with green?
hhmmmmmm.... /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

 

[honeycutt]

The same reason that cans containing kerosene are colored green. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[SailorBob]

I thought kerosne was blue. Yellow was hard to find. I had to go to a Boat US and pay the premium for a marine grade diesel can. $20