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Date:         Fri, 12 Oct 2012 21:16:13 -0500
Reply-To:     Alan Felder <dieseldoofus@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Alan Felder <dieseldoofus@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: sneaking friday - jerry can find
In-Reply-To:  <5E1DE283-AAE9-4310-B9D8-E45441665E34@shaw.ca>
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For a while I was buying european military metal fuel cans, the 20 liter variety. They were getting expensive I thought so I bought about 6 of these, includin one french-made can (brad new) with a non-standard opening. I like the euro (NATO, really) cans better because the spouts work better, even though I usually use a siphon tube. the red lining is impervious to everything.

I also bought a couple of plastic water cans that look similar to fuel cans.

I only thought these were expensive then. Now they cannot be found. Last I saw they were going around minimum $50-70 each for the authentic ones. There are some new knock-offs that are junk - don't buy those.

Something I did find in the process of all of this was 5 liter cans which use the same spout. These are really cool as they fit exactly under the rear westy bench, and I can travel with a spare gallon or so of diesel, enough for another 30 miles. I manged to get two of these and they are like miniature NATO cans.

Alan Felder Austin TX

On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 11:47 PM, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:

> I found an US military jerry can at the local metal scrapyard last week. > alistair


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