Where can I get an old style non CARB 5-gal gasoline can?

I use my old fuel jugs:

or search eBay for "Jerry Can" - just be aware that there are several different kinds and the nozzles are not interchangeable between them.

nate

Blame the gov'mint. At least that is what the guy in the hardware store told me when all I could find were these new crappy cans. They may keep in fumes but I've spilled more gas with them. With no vents, you get blurping. It may be a state by state option of finding them.

Take a look at Kerosene and diesel jugs. Most of the ones sold around here are still the older non-CARB types.

You may be tempted to modify your new-style can so that it actually works.

I betcha there is a significant sanction, like jail, fine, and/or flailing, if you do so.

It's for the children.

Give them time and they will come up with a can that will only allow gasoline to go _in_ and never out. They have almost succeeded with that abortion with the lever you have to hold open.

Harry K

Some cut.

We used the old five gallon oil cans out on the farm. Some still available on Ebay.

Dean Hoffman wrote: ...

Was going to say/suggest same thing. Fortunately, still have a sizable collection that will outlast me...

Where to look would be highly dependent on where OP is located, I'd think. Major city/urban area would be tougher I'd think than rural given few city-folk deal in bulk oil products.

They will make them so safe that people will go back to using glass milk jugs for the ga s.

Places that require Algore cans:

CARB Compliant, Can Be Sold In CA, CT, DC, DE, MD, ME, NH, NJ, NY, OH, PA, TX & 5 Northern Counties Of VA

Brent wrote the following:

You can blame the People's Republik of Kalifornia for that. CARB = California Air Resources Board.

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Speaking of which, I've not tried it as the form factor isn't quite as convenient but the current 5-gal plastic pails w/ the pour spout used for motor/hydraulic/etc. oil would certainly hold gasoline as well. Most of those the spouts pour reasonably well if not perfectly. Those should be relatively easy to find one of -- if nothing else by 5-gal of whatever motor oil one uses and transfer it to something else... :)

Heh! Those are harder to find than metal gas cans. However,

Empty bleach jugs work well.

But to solve the original problem: If you can snuggle the mower up next to the car, there are siphon hoses that can defeat the filling-hose interlock business on the gas tank.

Olive-Drab store will be happy to sell you a Jerry Can.

Or see if there are any Army-Navy surplus stores near you.I think nowadays they are made of plastic. cuhulin

If you do that, don't forget to hit the tops with a spray can of red paint before you fill them the first time, lest some busybody at the gas station get on you for using the wrong can.

(When did red become 'required', anyway? Back in stone age, we had several pretty navy blue Belknap 5-gallon cans, with a seperate tiny lid for venting. No keeper chains, though, so you always had to be careful where you set it down.)

the blue is a good idea, its for kerosene only.

mix gasoline in a kerosene container and bam explosion when using kerosene in a kerosene heater.

that happened in manufacturing somehere, kerosene got contaminated with gasolie some amish died.

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And to make matters even worse, they couldn't get any insurance... :(

A few years ago in New Zealand a guy was walking real close by a heater mounted in a wall.He broke wind and a flame shot up his rear end.That gas is tough! cuhulin

i think the supplier paid some compensation. certinally hope so the kerosene was all recalled. i guess it was re refined.

interestingly the supplier faxed the amish who are allowed phones and electric in their barns but not their homes for business purposes