The oil company where I go to buy B-100 biodiesel keeps short hours so I like to purchase extra fuel when I’m there. I would like to purchase a half dozen of the heavy plastic 20-liter jerry cans used by the US military.

Metal jerry cans are available in abundance, both new and used, both with the US spout and the NATO spout. But metal cans are susceptible to both rust and dents.

The plastic jerry cans used by the US Army are made by a Canadian company called “Scepter” but unfortunately Scepter has completely ceased marketing the cans in the US due to emissions regulations. I’ve found a few stores that offer them, but they will only sell to military units (e.g., the Brigade Quartermasters store in Kennesaw, GA) and not to individuals (even folks on active duty).

Does anyone have a source for these jerry cans? Perhaps a store in Canada or Mexico that is willing to mail order to the US?

Thanks in advance.

 

You mean like these :

http://www.davidsonproducts.com/


Actually, I prefer the metal Swiss and Swedish cans over the U.S., plus the cam-lock spout is far superior on the foreign cans.

 

Yes Bearkiller, exactly like those.

But unfortunately on that Davidson Products website the Scepter cans are shown but have "NOT AVAILABLE" plastered all over them.

On the metal jerry cans I too like the NATO spouts better than the US spouts. But metal cans dent and rust.

 

Anything that is going to dent a metal can is going to rupture a plastic jug.

I don't have any problems with rust, especially on the foreign cans, unless it is an old can that has been left almost empty and neglected for a long time.


Most of those old surplus metal cans served in WWII, over fifty years ago, and they are still going strong.

Let anything plastic sit in the sunlight for a few months and it will go all to pieces.

 

^^+1 Sunlight will eat plastic. All though OUR military has some new plastic cans that will store fuel or water, they are color coded of course..

 

You can no longer buy the nice Scepter fuel cans thanks to CA and there pretty tough plastic.

 

Now they are really getting ridiculous, what’s next a smog device on a weedwacker?

Here is where locals get fuel cans for their ATV and Watercraft.

http://bertsonlineshopping.com/catal...&Search=Search

Could you use this type of container?

http://bertsonlineshopping.com/eshop...CONTAINERS.htm

 

Why not use two 55 gal drums and a hand pump, fill one take it home and pump into the other ? just a thought.

 

Jim you shouldnt oughtta said that,baaqmd led by scqamd ALREADY have regs on lawn mowers,'spare the air days',and,by the way, stop stealing our water! So there.

 

It's coming!... The greenies absolutely hate 2 stroke engines.
That is one reason those wimpy, 4cycle, propane powered weedwackers were brought out by Lehr.. Emissions... But the weight, price and poor performance got them removed from Home Despot shelves because the public hated them.

OK, exactly what was wrong with those heavy duty jerry cans that Calif didn't like??? Like there wasn't a molded-in label saying that this product is known by the State of Calif to cause reproductive harm or Dain Bramage?
VOC regulations? a detectable molecule of gasoline might permeate through the plastic and get into the air?

 

http://slo.craigslist.org/pts/1335846041.html
http://www.deutscheoptik.com/catalog...products_id=10
http://www.hummerhub.com/store/home.php?cat=109

 

"baaqmd,scqamd"

Sounds like a new patent medicine for a new designer disease...
"Ask your doctor about New Baaqmd if you cannot tolerate the standard formulation of Scqamd".

 

SoTex,the problem is.....that as goes Cal.goes the rest of the country,it just takes a little longer.Some of us remember when the air districts were formed everybody said no way,you've got to be kidding.Uh no they were not kidding and now everything has smog eqpt.on it.Calif.kinda shafted platers,drycleaners,refineries,all kinds of degreasing operations,paint operations(low voc's),R-12 and the list goes on.All in the name of save this and that.

 

At the cost of our economy and the security of our nation, the EPA has forced this country to it's knees.

Wonder what the outcome of WWII would have been if things were run then as they are now.

 

^^^ We would all be speaking Japanese or German...