New 5 ga Tank

[johnnylight]

I had this for a few months works great.
found it at lowes for $9.00

Enviro FLO

I'll have to go back and pick up one for gasoline.

 

[20 20]

I noticed that style the other day, can't stand the ones I bought a year or so ago{different type}. They're suppose to be non-spill, what a joke that is. What was wrong with just a plain ole can with a simple spicket are people really that bad off they don't know how to poor from 1 container to another?

 

[Ductape]

I noticed that style the other day, can't stand the ones I bought a year or so ago{different type}. They're suppose to be non-spill, what a joke that is. What was wrong with just a plain ole can with a simple spicket are people really that bad off they don't know how to poor from 1 container to another?

Unfortunately, the EPA has deemed they allow too many fumes into the air. I guess in the future, I'll have to start looking at yard sales for older, more user friendly gas/fuel cans.

 

[CurlyDave]

The amount of gas I spill trying to use the doofy new designs more than makes up for any vapor release from the can.

A full can weighs 35-40 lbs. Just holding it up takes one full hand, holding it in the right position to pour takes the other one.

Now they want me to pull out another appendage and activate a valve...

 

[HCJtractor]

I had this for a few months works great.
found it at lowes for $9.00

Enviro FLO

I'll have to go back and pick up one for gasoline.

I must strongly disagree. These new containers were the obviously the design of some idiot who never had to transfer 15 gal. of diesel into a tractor. Bought one of these new ones the other day and it takes three hands to operate and lots of time waiting for the fuel to gurggle and trickle out. To make it worse, the flex nozzle extender fell off into my tractor tank, requiring a fishing expedition to retrieve it. You know, some one invented a perfectly good fuel can about 75 years ago. You know, one with a good spout and a vent, one that works. Why reinvent the wheel? What obscure government agency decided that a simple fuel container needed to be re-engineered, resulting in the crap that we are forced to buy?

 

[Big Bri]

if our government can screw up a simple 5 gal gas can . . . that has worked for 75 years what makes them think they can "fix" health care?

i know its off topic sorry just making a point

 

[WH401]

The replacement "spill-proof"/"enviro-flo" nozzles for all fuel cans is one of the biggest jokes the government has ever come up with. "Spill-proof"?, who are they kidding. As CurlyDave said, the extra fuel that you spill with these nozzles more than easily makes up for the piddly amount of fumes that may escape from the older cans. People have become so fed up with this idiotic design that most are more likely to just unscrew the nozzle off of the can and use it solely like that, which is even worse than the old cans.

I bought 3 diesel cans within the last year and made sure that they had the nozzles that are similar to the older style cans. This nozzle has the vent tube built into it, but has a regular cap on the end like the old cans. This version of the "EPA" nozzles is tolerable, but none of them will ever empty as fast as the old ones. I'm always on the lookout for older fuel cans and I plan to use the ones I have for as long as possible.

 

[20 20]

Seems like most everyone here hates the retro new design. So my new question, if it's a free country why are they still on the market????????? I just love all these self save laws and crap that keeps getting shoved down our throat by the KGB!!!!!!

 

[J35]

I had this for a few months works great.
found it at lowes for $9.00

Enviro FLO

I'll have to go back and pick up one for gasoline.

I like this style as far as getting the fuel into the tank, pretty simple, haven't spilled the first drop yet, 25 gals so far. I like the fact that you can put the nozzle in the tank and then turn on the flow.

The brain fart i found on the yellow diesle containers of this style is that they have the same size opening as a container made for gas so at the pump I have to use a funnel as the pump nozzle won't fit in the can.

I guess you can still get the metal GI style gas can's in Mexico. When I was living in S AZ I had a good supply of that style courtesy of the drug and people smugglers as I was forever finding cache's of fuel out in the middle of no where.

Have fun

 

[BlacknTan]

The guvmint doesn't think we're smart enough to think for ourselves..

They try to make everything idiot proof so we idiots don't hurt ourselves. Without a change in direction, we're on the path to socialism.