New *&%^ EPA Fuel Containers

[Markcuda]

 

[roman]

Markcuda, Are you advocating these contraptions or dissing them?

Nothing I am interested in.



Thank you Congressmen for these wonderful tools we have to dispense the
horrible corn fuel you shove down our throats.

Your Boss,
The Taxpayer

 

[Markcuda]

I have a Uno can and love it.
Does not leak, and very handy to use.
You have to store gas in something, might as well be a good built can.

 

[Ken Pike]

gwdixon - I drill the hole for the valve & thread a home-built valve insertion tool onto the valve (metal valve cap with a length brass chain soldered to it), feed the small chain through the fill spout opening, turn can upside down & fish the chain out the small hole with a piece of bent wire, pull valve up through the hole. Remove core & you're done - looks factory!

 

[gwdixon]

gwdixon - I drill the hole for the valve & thread a home-built valve insertion tool onto the valve (metal valve cap with a length brass chain soldered to it), feed the small chain through the fill spout opening, turn can upside down & fish the chain out the small hole with a piece of bent wire, pull valve up through the hole. Remove core & you're done - looks factory!

Sounds like a good plan. Thanks for the update.

 

[wedge40]

We all need to hang out at the nuclear plant so we can get that third arm growing out of our chest to make these stupid things easier to work.

Wedge

 

[BeeferMan]

I used to chuckle when filling up my old 5 gallon plastic fuel can (with the $5.99 sticker still on it) that it cost three times the price of the can to fill it with diesel. Looking at the price of some of these new containers, it appears they've solved that odd situation...

 

[Ruark]

I bought 5 new 5 gallon EPA containers for diesel fuel for my tractor - it holds about 18 gallons. Also a couple of smaller ones for chainsaws, trimmers, etc. They have the little "trigger" you're supposed to hook onto the edge of the opening. How you do that with a small tank, like on a trimmer or lawn mower, I have no idea. Holy crap, don't get me started.

I ended up getting a nice funnel. I unscrew the ^%$ing EPA spout and just pour the fuel down the funnel.

 

[RDrancher]

GRSTTHEGREAT complained of having to fish out the plastic spouts and I can go one better than that. I quickly found that plastic cans were a big PITA so I looked for and found a 105 gallon fuel tank with electric pump and shutoff nozzle. Last summer I was fueling one of my tractors and the aluminum nozzle on the hose handle valve fell off and into the tank. I couldn't see it as the tank was nearly full so I left it in till I got the fuel down to about 1/4 tank. I fished around for a while with wire coat hangers to no avail, then I found a couple of bamboo plant stakes and using them managed to roll it around to where I could push in one stick to stand it up, then pushed in the other and it was exactly fit to wedge into the nozzle. Then just lifted it out. I fixed that problem with it then by putting a self-tapping screw thru the valve socket and into the nozzle. I have never seen one of those end nozzles fall off like that before but they are just swaged into the socket of the handle valve. I felt lucky that it only took me about 5 minutes to fish it out and the tank wasnt that big so it was not too hard to see down inside it.

Never even imagined THAT happening! I'll be keeping an eye on mine from now on.

 

[JRobyn]

On a very peripherally related topic (no thread hijacking here;-) I have had unbelievably excellent customer service from Blitz. I had one of their steel "jerry" cans and after several years (admitedly stored outside), parts of the INSIDE of the can began rusting. I sent Blitz an e-mail asking if there wasn't supposed to be some sort of galvanizing or other rust prevention on the inside of their cans. As old as my can was, they said they couldn't be certain exactly what sort of treatment the inside may have had, so they sent me a brand new can (with the EPA spout;-), absolutely no charge! I was astonished.