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Metal or plastic? (Read 69 times)
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Metal or plastic?
07/11/15 at 09:54:34
I need to buy a couple of 5 gal gas cans.
HF has the NATO style jerry cans for $40 (less 20%)
or plastic for $30.
which would you prefer?
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I've got a metal 5 gal can that's over 30 years old and is still spotless inside and that has a spout that you can actually pour gas out of.
I've thrown away a few plastic cans that have developed leaks from splits in the plastic.
It's impossible to buy a new plastic can around here that doesn't have the idiotic EPA designed pour spout on it. That alone would keep me from ever buying another plastic can.
I'd spend the extra 10 bucks and get the jerry style cans.
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+1 agreed
get the metal ones
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I honestly didn't know you could still find metal, at least not in the town I live in.
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metal it is.
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07/11/15 at 19:58:20
I've got a plastic 2 gallon and a plastic 1 gallon can that are 30 years old. No problems with them at all. Like others have said, where do you find metal cans anymore? I remember buying oil in metal cans but haven't seen a metal gas can since my grandfather's antique can in the '70's.
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07/11/15 at 20:12:47
I still own and use the first gas can I ever owned and of course it is metal. I was shocked when they started making them out of plastic. At an auction of my father's estate the people bid up his old 40's and 50's vintage gas cans in a hurry.
But I also have a plastic can that has served me well. The only one I have had trouble with is one of those stupid EPA cans and it leaks and spills gas all over the place. Plus last winter the sides of it sucked in and permanently distorted it.
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