new style gas cans

Anonymous-0 · Apr 20, 2010

Just a note to you all,If your thinking of buying a new gas can DON'T, I bought 3 of them and they suck.You have to have 3 hands and 2 heads to get fuel out.And if your fueling a older tractor you might as well just pour fuel on your self and get it over with early. My rant for today. Have a good one Mike

Welding man · Apr 20, 2010

Just another fine example of how our govt. can screw up things. Old timers around here used to get their gas and kerosene in a vinegar jug and use a cob for a stopper.

KB · Apr 20, 2010

My old gas can finally gave up so ended up with one of the new ones. Had it about 2 months when the wife couldn't figure out how to make it work so she pulled the nozzle completely apart. Came home from work with loose nozzle parts on the porch and questioned as to why in the world I would buy such a stupid thing. Long story short I told her that these were supposed to be idiot proof and well...........the truely funny part was her reply that I guess they made a better idiot.

Expensive lesson but still brings tears to my eyes thinking about it.

Anonymous-0 · Apr 20, 2010

I've got 2 different styles and neither one is easy to get fuel out of. one you have to pull back neck and twist and hold while pouring and the other you have to pull switch back and push lever down.I'm going to spend extra money and buy saftey cans if their normal Mike

DiggerDick · Apr 20, 2010

Drill a 1/4 inch vent hole and put a screw type eye bolt in, easy to remove and replace. And how about the gas cans that dont come with a cap, your supposed to put spout back in can (plastic jug) and then replace cover-what a pain.

IOWA NORTHEAST · Apr 20, 2010

I have three different types of the new ones, and cussed all three till my son read the directions.
They are pretty much fool proof, one doesn't work real well for my gas powered post hole digger, and one generator. The one style I just love, you don't even have to look while you pour, when it is 3/4 inch from full it shuts off without so much as a tea spoon spiled. I can't find them now.

TomA in CA · Apr 20, 2010

The plastic can is OK easy to clean. The spouts are all unusable....throw 'em away and use a cob. Maybe get a big funnel for fueling.

Sorry Mike they don't make normal ones anymore.

olgentdc · Apr 20, 2010

yeah i hear you ,those are called Boma" cans around here ,,, what a joke !!, Shove as many as you UP in the inventor and the goofy law makinbasturds where the sun don't shine ,.. and if they are made in CHINA PREPARE FOR THEM TO SELF DESTRUCT and destroy everything ya got ...

JMOR · Apr 20, 2010

Around here those new POS cans are so hated & the old ones in such demand that they are stolen from shops & your PU or anywhere they are seen!

shaun wallace · Apr 20, 2010

I use 5 gal hyd buckets. Got plenty and use plenty of oil. Seems like something is low every time you turn around.

1941FarmallAboy · Apr 20, 2010

I work for the county at the landfill, I have a bunch of old OLD STEEL gas cans! I"ve been cleaning out the rust and sealing them with the POR 15! They work great!

kyplowboy · Apr 20, 2010

I have not been forced to buy a new can yet but a buddy showed me a trick I will do when I do get some. Cut a hole in it just down from the handle away from the spout, the spot the old ones had an air hole, with a spade bit. Pull a valve stem into it and pull the core, just leave the screw on cap on it. When you use it take the cap off and the new ones work much better!!

Dave

whizkidkyus · Apr 20, 2010

I have a couple of the old Blitz gas cans . The red plastic ones from the mid 1990's. The ones where you unscrew the top, pull out the plastic tube, open the vent top , and pour, when done close the vent and then push the plastic spout back in and replace the top. I hate those things . They always leak .

Whizkid

Paul from MN · Apr 20, 2010

J, I know you are an external_link hater. But calling the gas cans Boma cans makes you sound ignorant. The regulations regarding portable fuel cans was the last gasp of the Bush run EPA. It went into full effect before external_link took office.

Old Roy · Apr 21, 2010

that one you pull the switch back, I made it easier by cutting the plastic spring off so it will stay back much easier just to hold down lever to pour.only time it should leak is if it would turn completely upside down

Anonymous-0 · Apr 21, 2010

Naw...that's what they got their moonshine in.

Anonymous-0 · Apr 21, 2010

dont know what your malfunction is with these jerry cans, as i've got several and no problems pouring fuel out of them, once the fuel starts flowing it does not stop till you turn the can right side up to sit it down, actually hear my neigbour squak about them , he was the one stealing fuel from me till i filled one 50-50 gasolene & methel hydrate, .. mysteriously found his truck a mile or so down the road one am... never had gasolene go missing again, or jerry cans for that matter..

Chris (WA) · Apr 21, 2010

I was forced into buying one a couple weeks ago as I forgot my old one when I went on an ATV trip. I actually like the new style better! I can get the spout in the ATV then start the gas flow with the trigger. Who would have thought...

tlak · Apr 21, 2010

Why pour, if your can will sit on the tractor by the filler, use a kerosene hand pump. I give the pump a couple squeezes and it siphons the whole can in less than five minutes.

Mathias NY · Apr 21, 2010

I've had one of the newer style 5 gallon cans from TSC for a couple years now. It's not as fast as my old metal cans are, but it's way faster than a kerosene siphon.

They have a tang on the pour spout, you need to catch that on the threads to your fuel tank and push. It might take 30 seconds longer to pour than my metal cans, but it isn't much longer. This may not work as well on a lawnmower or modern car, but on a 60 year old tractor it works fine.

Nancy Howell · Apr 21, 2010

If its one of the new "safety" style pour spouts, the are a real pain. We take the pour spout off and use a large funnel.

NawlensGator · Apr 21, 2010

I now siphon also just as you described.

olgentdc · Apr 21, 2010

never seen them during bush era

Inno · Apr 21, 2010

Probably took awhile for them to come to market...........seriously though, I just take the spout off and use a funnel for most things as someone else suggested. And if you're off a little bit the funnel will catch it. Much quicker than trying to get 5 gals out of a itty bitty little hole with an even smaller vent hole.

mkirsch · Apr 21, 2010

(quoted from post at 19:05:30 04/20/10) yeah i hear you ,those are called Boma" cans around here ,,, what a joke !!,

That's awfully funny because these cans have been around for 4-5 years now... Our current President wasn't even a state Senator when these cans were forced on the public by the state of CALIFORNIA. Last I checked, our current President represented the state of Illinois. Yet, here we are blaming these abominations on our current President... That makes sense.

The spout on mine leaks like a sieve, and I've tried several different spouts of the same type. They all leak. I thought these cans were supposed to be safe, leak proof, and keep the vapor from escaping, thereby reducing pollution and reducing our dependence on foreign oil. If I don't get stuck with a big hazmat cleanup bill from all the gas that leaks on the ground when I use mine, I'll be surprised.

mkirsch · Apr 21, 2010

(quoted from post at 12:07:55 04/21/10) never seen them during bush era

Bull puckey. These "CARB compliant" cans have been on the shelves at Tractor Supply, Lowes, Home Depot, and Walmart since at least before the Tractor Supply opened here 4 years ago.

Mark - IN. · Apr 21, 2010

All right Mr. Cheater, inside deal guy that aint playing by the rules that everyone else has to. I'll tell you what. If I was you, I would be doing the same thing with a slight difference. I'd buy me a dark trench coat, hat, fake glasses and nose, and I'd be selling them in an alley for $$$.

"You wanna keep puttin up with that worthless Al Gore can, or you want one of these handy dandy get the job done red steel one gallon cans for...$50? And if you want to argue the price, it'll go up to $60, so take it or leave it because I've got guys in the middle east that are willing to pay $1,000 for a one gallon steel job, and I'm in a good mood and giving you a shot at the deal of a lifetime, just gone up to $70 for draggin your feet".

Mark

rustyj14 · Apr 21, 2010

Whilst rooting around in my mower supply pile, i found one of those new style cans and nozzle laying under a tarp. I spent an hour trying to figger out how it works, and what to do to make it work. Well, it'll get the deep six next week, loitering in a black plastic garbage bag! Pure junk!

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