Gas Cans SUCK!!!

[Ironsmith]

Or at least the new ones do, thanks to the .gov and and EPA CARB laws. If you haven't had the displeasure of using one of these new pieces of total fugtard crap, they have an "automatic" vent and flow shut off built into the filler neck / spout. You cant buy an old school one new anymore.

There's a problem with these things, THEY DONT FUGGIN WORK! They were intended to be safer, and reduce fuel spills. But instead, they dont vent, at all -EVER! They typically spill more fuel on the ground than they do into the device your attempting to fill, and good luck at the filling station when you unscrew the Frankenstein filler/vent nozzle off the plastic can and try to dispense gas into it since there is no other vent hole on the back side.

Thats right folks, the EPA mandated something be made unsafe, in order to make it safer!

So there's money to be made here people, we simply market a "water fill nozzle and vent cap" that requires you drill a small hole in the plastic can for the vent to thread into, and the main filler neck will have the same factory thread as the can. Jut like the good old fashioned one that worked perfectly, this will retrofit the EPA cans and allow them to actually do what they are intended to do.

[Mr. T]

LMAO!!!! I hate those stupid cans. I have a bunch of old ones that I will not dispose of even if my wifey say that I need to clean out the garage. Go hit some garage sales I am sure you will find one that works. Or else pull the stupid safety vent knozzle off and keep the funnel part and run a damn screw on the other side of the top that can be pulled out when needed to be vented.

[Zonga]

Luv mechanical engineers.

[Ironsmith]

The EPA, it's for your own good! Seriously though there will come a day when the old stock of cans has dwindled and fabbing a kit that works will make money.

[Zonga]

There's a black market in old toilets, why not gas cans?

[Ironsmith]

There's a black market in old toilets, why not gas cans?

Buy every old serviceable garage sale gas can you can find!

[Zonga]

I imagine there's a gold mine of old gas cans in Florida - the end of the road for old duffers.

[Ironsmith]

Yea, you might do well to just start hitting the yard sales and estate auctions in search of them. If you come across any WWII collectibles LMK, I love that sort of thing.

No mummified Japs though, we had one of those in the house when I grew up and it kinda freaked out my friends and I had a hard time concentrating on Scooby Doo with that freeze dried looking Nip always staring at me with hollow eye sockets.

[Mr. T]

Yea, you might do well to just start hitting the yard sales and estate auctions in search of them. If you come across any WWII collectibles LMK, I love that sort of thing.

No mummified Japs though, we had one of those in the house when I grew up and it kinda freaked out my friends and I had a hard time concentrating on Scooby Doo with that freeze dried looking Nip always staring at me with hollow eye sockets.

So did ole fish face have slanted eyes?

[spirit of Ronald Reagan]

Are these the cans that you have to use one hand to hold the spout still, the other one to squeeze the safety valve open, and then call your neighbor to come over and tip the can so you can pour the gas into another contain that is actually pour friendly?