Seems like a drill bit and a rubber plug would solve the engineering problem nicely.
Thanks to all the government mandated “Improvements” a $5 plastic gas can now costs $20 or more. A metal one is $45 - $50. And they have those OPEC required cumbersome gizmos on the spouts.
Make your own vent in a plastic gas can.
Drill a fair sized hole in the handle where the older cans had a vent. Make it a tight fit for a #12 or #14 sheet metal screw or small hex head 1/4” bolt to screw in as a plug.
I’m just a few hours from Sherbrooke PQ, so I buy all my gas cans there.
It’s amazing that Canada is less crazy than the Etats-Unis.
For cheap money I bought blue water cans for fuel use. I just place labels on them. They are just like old style gas cans with a flex spout and vent.
You can buy valve stems for truck wheels at most auto parts store. I used a pair of long curve nosed pliers to hold the nut while I was threading it into a hole I drilled in the top of the can.
The new design is NOT an enviro-whacko product.
It is a Nanny-Safety product.
Some idiot literally poured gas on a fire and the flame naturally back-tracked and blew-up.
He sued and won, so this design is to remedy THAT “problem”.
So, when this version is outlawed, you won’t be able to transport or store gas.
Which is what the fascists want in the first place.
Does this mean that all lawyers are left wing morons that they are willing to pursue these lawsuits? Where is the push back? Will no lawyer work PRO BONO on the side of sanity?
Which is why one of the most valuable things I inherited from my mother’s estate was her gas can...
And if left outside in the heat too long—when most people mow their grass (excepting users of Mexican ‘bagpipers’)—these plastic jugs swell to the point of bursting.
Like ‘low flow’ toilets that must be flushed more than once, using more water, but maybe deadly.
Thanks federal government, as usual—for nothing!
Products like that are from big, government-linked businesses using government as a tool to prevent competition. Products like that are suitable for all of the political elite and regulators who aren’t even technically inclined enough to make a good gas can.
Have drill, will hole.
Talking about budget problems, I once (for fun) suggested to a liberal that we law of mathematics, and he wholeheartedly agreed. The law of physics is not important to liberals.
I am glad I have a few old style ones made of plastic. I am beyond EPA reach on this
Here’s a much better, fully-vented alternative that holds 6.5 gallons, is absolutely spill-proof, and you can cheaply make the nozzle of your choice from the plumbing supply area at Lowe’s:
http://www.amazon.com/Gallon-Utility-Racing-Motocross-Motorcycle/dp/B008AZJ6RU/ref=sr_1_1/177-9261345-7254765?ie=UTF8&qid=1419188026&sr=8-1&keywords=gas+can+motorcycle
The new cans cost twice as much and cause fuel spills.