RANT New "safety" gas cans?

[Sigarms]

After I guess about 10 years, wife "convinced" me that I needed another 5 gallon gas can.

Other weekend picked one up at a auto parts store since I was there.

I picked up the Midwest Can "double protection layer, flame mitigation device with vapor locking spout".

It also has a built in strainer!

I had to ask the guy at the counter to show me how to work it and even he had to do a double take It's a fricking gas can!

Rant off.

 

[MossRoad]

I still have my three 6 gallon plastic Blitz cans, two 2.5 gallon cans, and one gallon can, all with original spouts. I dread the day I have to go to the new style cans/spouts.

 

[seville009]

I just put that new dangled cap/funnel on the ground and use a regular funnel. I don't know how you could make the funnel that comes with the gas can work in any position other than straight down (like into a push lawn mower). The fuel fill spout on my skidsteer is chest high on the side.

 

[Sigarms]

I just put that new dangled cap/funnel on the ground and use a regular funnel.

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".

 

[ChuckT]

'Nother case of the safety nannys going overboard. Just how many gasoline fill "accidents" have there been anyways?

 

[LittleBill21]

I will keep linking these. Been using them for 10+ years at this point. they don't leak ever, even if they roll over in the car.

https://www.amazon.com/No-Spill-145...e046041953c29&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl

 

[Jstpssng]

'Nother case of the safety nannys going overboard. Just how many gasoline fill "accidents" have there been anyways?

It's to protect the environment. Those vented cans were letting gas fumes escape into the atmosphere.
Now they are trapped in the can, until you open it... or it explodes in the heat.
Designed by somebody who almost flunked out of engineering school, but the "Ventless gas can" was his road to Fame.
Or infamy.

I use a siphon hose for me tractor, placing the can in my bucket and raising it above the tank. If you usse the nozzle and invert the can so that it's at an angle though, the fuel does seem to flow better.

 

[MossRoad]

'Nother case of the safety nannys going overboard. Just how many gasoline fill "accidents" have there been anyways?

Apparently quite a few. Google up Blitz gas cans and read about it.

 

[dstig1]

The No-Spill cans are great as LittleBill noted, but they do still have the same problem with temperature changes as all sealed gas cans. They are pretty thick walled so they don't tend to fully collapse in the cold, but they will suck in pretty good. And of course bloat in the heat...

 

[LittleBill21]

The No-Spill cans are great as LittleBill noted, but they do still have the same problem with temperature changes as all sealed gas cans. They are pretty thick walled so they don't tend to fully collapse in the cold, but they will suck in pretty good. And of course bloat in the heat...

that is true, haven't destroyed any, but you have to watch when bloated, they vent a bit hard.

 

[dstig1]

Yeah make sure you point it in a safe direction before you push the button to vent when it is hot!

 

[jaydee325]

Just step up to the plate and go with VP Racing jugs.

Lots of spout options available. Even some pumps that will attach.

 

[flyerdan]

If you have the rubbermaid style with the threaded collar, you can get replacement spouts from ebay, or other online places. They will have to be labeled "for potable water only", or similar, but they are the same flexi-spouts they came with.

 

[Mtsoxfan]

How are the vented fumes captured at gas stations? On my gas cans, minus the diesel can, I put a balled up plastic bag to keep dirt out, so I guess the fumes stay in as well. To me, a stopper of some sort would have been a better idea than those new style spouts.

 

[sea2summit]

Moving parts wear out and break. Change my mind.

I’ve been converting to VP racing cans but had three diesel safety cans kicking around until about three weeks ago. I was pouring fuel, at its standard dribbling slow pace, when all of the sudden the whole mechanism snapped in half dumping diesel all over the tractor, the ground, and me. I was so pi$$ed off I couldn’t hold it, pulled the lid completely off and threw the spout, dumped the leftover into a VP can then kicked the safety can into the wood line where it still sits. I’m not proud of the outburst but that’s how it went down.

Hate those things, always have. In my entire life I don’t think I’ve dumped a cumulative amount of fuel with traditional cans equal to that one incident.

 

[plowhog]

It's to protect the environment. Those vented cans were letting gas fumes escape into the atmosphere.

I rarely ever spilled fuel with the old style cans. I spilled a lot after switching to the new cans.

After defeating the safety features, I'm back to refueling again, without fuel hitting the ground.

 

[Root Cause]

I found this 7" wide funnel at TSC with a large mouth that works well. I just set the spout to the side, they are worthless.

 

[Jstpssng]

I rarely ever spilled fuel with the old style cans. I spilled a lot after switching to the new cans.

After defeating the safety features, I'm back to refueling again, without fuel hitting the ground.

i hope that you noticed I was being sarcastic.

Designed by somebody who almost flunked out of engineering school, but the "Ventless gas can" was his road to Fame.
Or infamy

 

[Oaktree]

I still have my three 6 gallon plastic Blitz cans, two 2.5 gallon cans, and one gallon can, all with original spouts. I dread the day I have to go to the new style cans/spouts.

You can get replacement spouts that thread right on the new style cans. In my state they can't sell them for fuel cans, but they can sell them for "water jugs". Same spout.

 

[Torvy]

I have one of the new ones for my lawn mower. PITA. Spill more gas with it than the old ones. Smh