New Style Gas Cans - Part 2

[Casey1]

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I bought mine at Hardware Sales in Bellingham, WA. I have no affiliation with the company other than as a very happy user of their cans and spouts. I'm even giving these cans to a friend who has admired how easy my no-spill can is to use.

Those cans look good. Is the button easy to hold down? As long as the button does not wear out your thumb holding it down it looks like an ideal design.

 

[Joe1]

Casey1

They do look good, but again in the Carb states we have to go on spilling fuel with our non-spill cans. I guess we're just less competent than those living in other areas so we need the state Govt to help us out.

Life can be so difficult.

 

[lopezian]

Those cans look good. Is the button easy to hold down? As long as the button does not wear out your thumb holding it down it looks like an ideal design.

Certainly easy enough when filling my chainsaw, which only seems to take a couple of ounces of fuel at any one time. I also have a no-spill filler on my 5-gal deisel, and that one gets a little tiring, I suppose. The nice thing is you just take your thumb off ther button and the flow stops, so you can rest without moving the filler neck out of the tank.

 

[Glowplug]

Anyone try one of these cans from Northerntool? I don't know how they flow but if you get what you pay for they MUST be good. I do like the fact that they're 24-gauge steel and not that sissy plastic. I saw these some six months ago. I would've ordered them a long time ago if they weren't so expensive just because they look so cool if for nothing else.

 

[Glowplug]

Forget those Northerntool cans! I just walked in the door from a trip to Wally_World to buy some groceries. I thought I'd swing by the automotive section just to have a look-see after all this gas can talk. Well, they had the Wedco 5-gal. plastic cans with the old-style AFT-side vent hole for $6.93!! They had the whole rainbow of red, blue, and yellow. Bought some diesel yellow. I think I'll go back tomorrow to see if they've restocked! Up until now I have just dealt with the new style cans and not complained much. After all, I've just been filling my Kubota ZD28. It has an 8-gal tank and I usually don't have to put more than 5 gallons in at a time. But when I get my tractor with a 23 gallon tank I don't know if I can handle those *glup*glup*glup*glup* slow splashing cans. I guess all the more reason to get a 300-gal diesel tank with an electric 35 gpm pump at my barn!! It's "explosion proof" too. So if the 300 gal. of diesel blows up my barn I'll at least still have the pump! Well, I may have to settle for just the 13 gpm model so as to not break the bank.

 

[Mike5252]

I just got one of the Northern tool cans. Pretty pricey at about $45.

Just used it a couple times, no complaints to date.

Looks to be very well built - and even made in the USA!

 

[rback33]

The new style gas and diesel pumps have a break away connection at the end of the hose. In case you drive off with the nozzle still in your filler hole.When it disconnects the fuel shuts off. I had a diesel hose fly off at that connection when the pump clicked off. I was just glad it did not hit my vehicle. I've seen several other hoses laying on the ground next to the pump, so it must occur every once in awhile.

They work like a charm, but can be hard to re-attach. My Dad has worked for one CO-OP or another here in Kansas my whole life...one where I gre up was 20 some years of that.... when I was in high school I pulled in, swiped the ole CO-OP charge card of my parents and started to fill up... some friends saw me fillin up and pulled in by the building and we began to talk.. prolly spent a half hr there... finished yacking got in there car and drove off got a half block and saw the hose dangling behind me... My dad had WAY too much fun calling his buddy that ran the station about what I had done. ... Like I said... the things DO work

 

[pennwalk]

Well you have to admit that the old style fuel cans were pretty simple to use. Pull off the cap. Stick the spout in the tank. Tip it up and fill till the tank overflows. Quick pull it out and put the cap on and get to work. My new style cans are more complicated. Put the spout in the tank and tip it up. Nothing happens. Fiddle around with the lock clip while pulling back on spout. Fill tank for what seems like forever as the muscles in your back start to tremble. When the tank overflows quick pull it out and get back to work. Then I realized you were supposed to rest that little hook on the edge of the tank filler neck and that it would shut off by itself. It does work, but the problem I'm having now is that it still takes two and a half minutes and there is this little voice in the back of my head saying wouldn't you like a cigarette right now? So far I have managed to remember that I don't smoke but it still takes FOREVER to fill the tank.

Chris

 

[escavader]

Remember me..the guy who started all this sputtering about gas cans Im gonna do an about face now,Well i went to wally world and bought two yellow ones to haul kero in.they have the 4 inch straight spouts on them.You know what,they are ok pored good and no odor at all hauling in my jeep,gonna get two blues for diesal. Note these are a different design then the original blitz cans i bought before.CURLY DAVE: It didnt matter if they were west or not they still leaked all over the place.Im glad we started anew on this topic,its interesting .
ALAN

 

[keving]

bought two yellow ones to haul kero
get two blues for diesal. ALAN

Isn't it:

Blue = Kero
Yellow = Diesel
Red = Gas

I had a friend who put kero in a red gas can and when the torpedo heater ran out of kero he told another guy that he had kero in his shed in the red can. As it turns out, he also had gas in a red can. The guy, unknowingly, put the gas in the torpedo heater and it worked. Once they discovered what happened, they counted their blessings and only put the proper fuel in the properly labeled cans.