With all the new regs on gas/diesel jugs, has anybody found any that
are really good?
G

I still have the lovely jerry can type, plastic, by Moeller, previously some
other name, in Canada, which I've forgotten... I prefer these as the
profile is skinnier, allowing more walk room on the deck, when I've got them
on the rail.

Depending on where you buy them, you may have one of several spout designs;
I'm not aware of any which have spouts and vent caps any more, as anti-spill
seems to be the order of the day.

The ones I originally had were barrel-shaped, but the vent actuator flap
would catch, and then break, and then the spout was useless because it would
no longer release fuel. Moeller replaced (free) all of my spouts with one
which has a collar you turn to allow you to depress the spout, enabling the
fuel to flow. Much less likely to fail, but also seems to let fuel flow
more slowly than the barrel type, and, despite their claim that it's also
overfill-protected by the vent covered by the fuel as it rises, not only
doesn't it overcome the flow reliably, but the spout is now long enough that
I routinely overfill the tank due to the amount in the spout coming out when
I release the pressure. Further, it's angled, which doesn't allow me to
reliably fully empty the tank because the nozzle at the can end no longer is
straight down.

It requires more vigilance than the barrel shaped ones, but, despite my
initial disgust with the "safe" nozzles, I've come to like them, as it
allows me to fully upend the can before anything comes out, and pushing down
on the catch/lip/hook they have on the nozzle, on the top of the tank/deck
fill starts the flow; lift and it shuts off.

It takes longer to get the same amount of fuel out than a vented can does,
but it also allows me not to worry about those flexible spouts breaking, as
they were prone to do over time...

L8R

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With all the new regs on gas/diesel jugs, has anybody found any that are
really good?
G