- Oct 18, 2014
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Honest to @*#9, I cannot think of a better example of a stupid law. As you may know, a few years ago for the good of humanity a law mandated that gas cans have some stupid locking mechanism that, in theory, only allows gas to poor when there is pressure put on the spout.
The reality is that this mechanism works well one or two times. It thereafter fails to work properly because even the slightest amount of dust raises the friction point such that it becomes a complete cluster. In practice it's very difficult to use these and not poor carcinogenic gasoline on one's hands or the immediate environment.
A 5 gallon can I just bought a year or two ago has had today its spring broken, so now I need to go on amazon and pay $10-12 for a normal gas filling spout.
Oh, and good luck filling a lawn mower up to the top without it spilling everywhere. If you have a mostly full can, you can only pour when the nozzle is pressed firmly which means the spout is probably quite vertical, so you're all but guaranteed to spill a crap load of gas everywhere.
Lastly, I've also had one "burst" on me. A warm garage ended up resulting in a bloated gas can and when the pressure was released by one of these things it shot a gas cloud into my face.
The reality is that this mechanism works well one or two times. It thereafter fails to work properly because even the slightest amount of dust raises the friction point such that it becomes a complete cluster. In practice it's very difficult to use these and not poor carcinogenic gasoline on one's hands or the immediate environment.
A 5 gallon can I just bought a year or two ago has had today its spring broken, so now I need to go on amazon and pay $10-12 for a normal gas filling spout.
Oh, and good luck filling a lawn mower up to the top without it spilling everywhere. If you have a mostly full can, you can only pour when the nozzle is pressed firmly which means the spout is probably quite vertical, so you're all but guaranteed to spill a crap load of gas everywhere.
Lastly, I've also had one "burst" on me. A warm garage ended up resulting in a bloated gas can and when the pressure was released by one of these things it shot a gas cloud into my face.