Making gas cans great again

[John_Mc]

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.

I ordered a 10-pack of "replacement" vents for the older style gas cans. Funny how they fit just as well on the new style cans. The only bummer is that you need a 31/64" drill bit to make the hole for it. (An oddball size that I did not already have.) Why they could not design it around a 1/2" hole is beyond me.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00U7YLKNU?th=1

 

[RayIN]

I ordered a 10-pack of "replacement" vents for the older style gas cans. Funny how they fit just as well on the new style cans. The only bummer is that you need a 31/64" drill bit to make the hole for it. (An oddball size that I did not already have.) Why they could not design it around a 1/2" hole is beyond me.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00U7YLKNU?th=1

Yea, I screwed up one new plastic gas can by grabbing a ½" drill. I solved my delimma though, by heating a new vent with a hair dryer while squishing it with pliers to make it shorter and fatter. I've yet to try out that new can/vent.

 

[rontaki]

I know this isn't quite the same as a gas can/fuel, when I have a large cube of water and want to vent it, I take a #6 or so stainless sheet metal screw and screw it into the top of the cube, letting it form the hole so that it will seal well. Screw in to seal, out for venting. Seems like that would work work even better with the thicker wall of a gas can.

 

[IXLR8]

Yea, I screwed up one new plastic gas can by grabbing a ½" drill. I solved my delimma though, by heating a new vent with a hair dryer while squishing it with pliers to make it shorter and fatter. I've yet to try out that new can/vent.

I started epoxying them in so they would stay in place and not leak.