My most important need is for my fuel containers to not be unsafe, which rules out all plastic cans. The plastic threads of the spout pulled past the plastic threads on the can, even though the spout was properly installed. When that happened, the spout and can parted company as the can slipped from my hands, fuel went everywhere, including into my left eye. Fortunately this happened in my driveway in Anchorage, and not in the middle of nowhere.Termite wrote:Del,Netpackrat wrote: I no longer own any plastic fuel cans, and will not have them around.
I suspect our needs are a bit different. If I were hauling fuel on a Jeep out into the Alaskan bush, I wouldn't use "standard" plastic cans either. Although the Rotopax fuel packs work quite well(but are pricey), and are really tough. But order the vented yellow spout, the CARB compliant spout is crap.
Well, of course those work well.Supposedly these new jerry cans are self-venting and work well. I'm probably buy one soon to test, and when I do, I'll report my findings.
They are the NATO style metal cans like I currently use, and which I recommended in my previous post. They are the same design as the original German "Jerry Cans" invented for the Wehrmacht prior to WWII, and are the best fuel cans in existence. Unfortunately, they are not EPA compliant for use as fuel cans. That website only lists certain states where they are banned, but that info was out of date as of January 1, 2009. All fuel cans sold in the USA as of that date must have locking, threaded fittings for the nozzles, and "spill proof" vented nozzles. That is why the cans sold at the link I provided are marked "not for fuel use" even though they are otherwise the same cans.Edit to add; the cans Termite linked appear not to have the additional locking pin as on the Wedco cans and the Deutsche Optik cans that I linked, which are the same thing other than color and "not for fuel use" markings of the latter. I have read that not all "NATO style" cans will interchange nozzles, so there is the possibility that those won't. I would recommend getting the ones I linked because they seem to be the most common of the NATO style, and also the locking pin is a good feature to have.
