[AT] Fuel cans and dispensing - ideas requested

Bob W RgW13 at bellsouth.net
Thu Nov 6 09:57:26 PST 2008


 I have a 5 gallon Gott plastic can that's at least 20 years old and it
still holds gas. It is starting to show small surface cracks so it is not
used. I don't know they are still available or not. What I liked about it
was it is short and squatty not tall, so it would not tip over in the truck
or trailer.

Bob W [FL]

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Maybe I have just been lucky but I have never had a plastic fuel container
break. Spouts have cracked from flexing but thats not surprising. My newest
2 gallon container must be close to ten years old. The oldest, I bought when
I got my first snowmobile for mixing up 5 gallons of 40:1 fuel mix to keep
that big Hirth single cylinder engine running. That was back in 1974. The
snowmobile is long gone but the 5 gallon plastic container is still in use.

Ralph in Sask.
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>
> Slightly OT for this thread but only a little.
>
> Has anyone else had plastic cans split? I was filling a 5 gallon plastic
> can, almost new and it was about half full and the side split open. 
> Luckily
> I had a second can to fill so I could pour most of the gas in it and lost
> less than a gallon on the concrete.
>
> The plastic can was a blitz ventless brand. Is one brand better than 
> another
> or was I just unlucky and got a bad can?
>
> Thanks
> Bob W [FL]
>
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