Making gas cans great again

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The NATO cans don't screw on, they have a lid with sort of a cam-lock to hold the lid closed or to clamp a spout on.

Precisely.
Thank you for your valuable addition.

 

[triptester]

I use a battery-operated liquid transfer pump, no lifting no spilling.

 

[tmcj]

Adding a vent to increase the flow was the best thing I've done with jugs with the safety style spout. It empties a 5 gallon jug in about half the time.

The "vents" are super cheap and about a 5 minute installation. Its a tubeless tire valve stem with the guts removed. Search YouTube for it. Works like a charm.

 

[Hay Dude]

I use a battery-operated liquid transfer pump, no lifting no spilling.

Which one? I want to get one. Lifting oil buckets 5 feet off the ground and precisely pouring them sucks.
The battery lift pumps I saw were either $20 chinese garbage or $1,000 made in Sveden.

 

[triptester]

I paid $12 for one that runs off 2 D batteries has worked great for filling my lawn tractor and generators at deer camp. Been using it for 2 years now.

 

[MH8675309]

Saw this, great news. Reducing gas can flow to a pathetic dribble helped nobody.

So wait. They are only directing the manufacturers to specifically add vents again. So potentially increasing cost a little bit. And you still must have the spring loaded nozzle? ugh

Glad I have all my old cans around still. You can pry them from my cold, dead hands.

Reducing gas can flow to a pathetic dribble helped nobody. True and it caused INSTANT GROUCHINESS

 

[EscapedSuburbia]

Which one? I want to get one. Lifting oil buckets 5 feet off the ground and precisely pouring them sucks.
The battery lift pumps I saw were either $20 chinese garbage or $1,000 made in Sveden.

I like the cheap chinese garbage for fuel and DEF but the one time I tried it with hydraulic oil it couldn't do it.

 

[Grumpycat]

Back in the day when I had a long commute, there were no gas stations in my rural area that were open early or late. I would sometimes forget to fill up on the way home so as a backup, I would store some gas in a 150 gal skid tank by pumping it out of the 40 gallon tank on my pickup. That way, I would always have a supply on hand for my small engines, as well as my vehicles when necessary.

You could have charged an EV at home, overnight, much easier. Never be at the mercy of someone else’s working hours.

 

[bdhsfz6]

You could have charged an EV at home, overnight, much easier. Never be at the mercy of someone else’s working hours.

I most certainly would have done just that if EV's had been available in the 1990's.

 

[Jstpssng]

I bought one of these to transfer 170 gallons of old heating oil from one tank to another about 100 yards away. I then outfitted it with a 10 micron Goldenrod filter. Talk about mixing my metaphors, but I didn't want to take any chances on contaminating the furnace.
All told I have about $300 in the pump, filters and pipe to go to the bottom of the tank. Also a gallon of diesel conditioner, just in case. It took longer to set it up than to pump into 55 gallon drums and back out into the other tank.