Making gas cans great again

[thankyouTBN]

Personally, I think it was very well intentioned. As a kid around 1967 another kid that I knew was very badly burned by gasoline. It’s a miracle my brother and I didn’t also get burned because we used to mess around with gasoline all the time. In those days, children didn’t have 24 seven supervision. I really do they could invent a completely child proof cap that functions perfectly as a pour spout. Seems like they made two attempts and both were dismal failures.

 

[Tru-lefty]

I bought a larger pack of similar nozzles and caps from amazon a while back.

Behold the beautiful options available

Just drill a hole and stick an eight penny galvanized nail in it. Remove the nail before you pour replace when finished.

 

[RayIN]

The companies, sadly, are unlikely to make any significant changes. The rules will change again in 3 years and they will be left holding the cans.

The only way this gets fixed is for Congress to pass a law restoring common sense.

Tractors are too few in number and geographically spread out to a degree that emissions requirements do nothing...except increase cost and frustration.

Yep, and no airplane engine is required to even have an old-style muffler, let alone emission controls. As to 3 years, perhaps the socialist party will not win.

 

[mrmikey]

However I DO see lots of bicycle paths & bike signage being installed alongside out poorly drained, tree-overgrown, pothole infested roads.

Not so much out here rural, our problem is 'share the road'. To the bicyclists this means ride two wide and cause the poor SOB behind you to pass you on the other side of the barely wide enough road. Also means lets dart back and forth on the asphalt to miss the (a) widening shoulder that's encroached into the asphalt, (b) dropped shoulder that's caused the asphalt to drop and cause a big, albeit paved, divot on the roadway (c) soft shoulder that's not suitable to walk on let alone drive.
This was fun about two years ago they, DOT, decided to fluff up the shoulder. Not add any material mind you, loosen it up, pull the snow plow directed crap out of the ditch shoulders that consisted of stone, dirt, grass clods and deposit it back on the surface of the shoulders. Looked pretty...not. Perish the thought should you have to pull over at any speed with an emergency, the soft uncompacted crap would pull you right into the ditch like a magnet. Never saw any bicyclists on the road was the only good thing.
In the city lets add more bike lanes to make it impossible to drive anything wider than a mini or to make it dangerous to turn right because there may be some idiot that has the right of way to pass you in the designated bike lane that takes up 2-3' of the already narrow roadway. All this while wearing the obligatory grape smugglers that had to be greased to put on.so they look like some one doing the tour de France.

The flange at the bottom of the nozzle IS actually too small! It destroys the rubber gasket and then it leaks. There AREN'T ANY on Amazon that are proper size. (they are all 1.5 inches

My findings also. I bought three corrugated nozzles on clearance many many years ago that were individual bubble packed, think they were Scepter brand, they're awesome. One split after many years at the ripples so I'm on number two now and have one left and can't find them anymore. Common complaints are as you stated re the Scamazon ones.

I like the tire valve idea, but would be concerned that gas would adversely affect the rubber.

It does, they only last a year or less before the split and crack.

 

[Runner]

Instead of whining about government and buying new nozzles, I put vents in all my unvented cans.

Drill a 1/2" hole and install a tire valve. Amazon.com

Remove the Schrader valve, run a 12-14" piece of baling wire through, and make a hook at the end. Make a slight bow in the entire length of wire. Remove the nozzle and run the wire through the opening and carefully pull the valve stem up through the drilled hole until it's seated.

They don't leak but, if you're a belt-and-suspenders guy, you could put some sealant at the base of the stem where it contacts the can.

Quick and cheap. The can in the foreground, like many cans, has a flat spot tailor-made for a vent, where the manufacturer used old molds with vents.

I like the tire valve idea, but would be concerned that gas would adversely affect the rubber.

 

[Merck]

Thank you for your attention to this matter!

Make Gas Cans Great Again by Improving Flow | US EPA

Today, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued letters to portable fuel container (PFC or gas can) manufacturers encouraging them to add vents to gas cans to ensure safe and effective refueling.

www.epa.gov

You can get a spout from EZ pour to replace the ones on the new cans. The kit comes with a vent you can put in also. Just drill a 1/2 inch hole. But put some silicone on it before you push it in. I have found they tend to leak. These spouts are illegal on cans manufactured I think after 2009 but who is going to know. I have mostly old cans but I have a couple I have put the EZ Pour spout on. The spouts come either a half inch opening or a one inch depending on how fast you want to pour. They are of excellent quality and I have had no problems with them. Cheap 2.5 gallon can now is almost $20 at Wal Mart.

 

[350c]

Plastic vent caps are readily available on Amazon to install a traditional vent. No screw to lose.

And probably made in China. And from I’m seeing here, some leak. My screw doesn’t. If I lose it, I have several spares…

 

[RB5]

I have spilled way more gas with those stupid spring loaded nozzles what you had to push onto the rim of the fuel tank opening than I ever did with the old style vented cans. I made a real mess when the cheaply made and badly designed spring broke. Now I have the 5 gallon push button version. You have to be in pretty good shape to hold that can up long enough for it to empty. It takes forever. Same problem with low flow faucets where it takes longer to fill something or forever to rinse off the soap. Stupid
ideas.

 

[RB5]

A lot of these young people that have never used a real vented high flow gas can are probably going to spill gas everywhere if they are not careful when they get the new vented cans.

 

[Grumpycat]

But then there will be all those unemployed cats

What unemployed cats?

Deleting DPF will eliminate the need for the SCR which isn't quite the same thing as a gasoline catalyst.