Briggs & Stratton smart-fill gas can

[draftsman]

Has anyone tried to use the new style "Smart-Fill" B&S gas cans? Not sure why they changed but I spilled plenty of gas with the new fangled design.

 

[Bunnykid68]

I hate all the new gas cans. I like the old Chilton gas cans with the yellow spout and the vent cap on the back of the can

 

[OZZY.40]

Yeah, I checked those out the other day and was not impressed. May have to go back to using a funnel.

 

[x10]

I got so honked off I threw all my plastic cans away and have went to the metal cans, and a funnel, they have again saftied us into an impossible corner,

the safety nazi's need to be stopped, they have overstepped good sense

 

[nomadicmutt]

UGH I wish I knew where the black market for gas cans was. I'd totally be hoarding all of the old ones. I hate hate HATE the stupid safety cap ones.

"hold this lever to the side. now push the spout in while holding the tiny tab with your other hand. Support the weight of all 5 gallons with those two fingers. Oops. you just accidentally pushed the lever too far. start over."

UGH.

 

[Bunnykid68]

I have a couple I am not currently using and always snag on them when I get the chance

 

[indygamerguy]

It's "smart" for gas companies, because they get consumers to effectively buy more fuel.

:rage:

 

[Joq867]

If your not smart enough to safely operate a gas can, it's not the gas cans fault. Give us back our good old fashioned simple to use gas cans.

 

[Car Ramrod]

Why not just get race fuel jugs?

http://www.jegs.com/i/JEGS+Performance+Products/555/80211/10002/-1

 

[K_W]

The Briggs smart cans suck, I'm forced to sell them at work...

The ones I have are the Biltz ones with the plastic squeeze lever that you have to move aside a catch to dispense, but since it's spring loaded, the instant you see the fuel reach the top you let your thumb slip off and the valve snaps shut, the fuel flow stops and the can is sealed... pretty slick. I hated them at first too.

The Briggs "Smart" cans are just a bad design.

 

[Westside]

blame lawsuits from people who do things with stuff that 1) isn't smart and/or 2) it wasn't designed to do.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/05/b...of-product-liability.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

 

[moosebag]

I love mine, use it often no more lifting heavy can

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5yrbeI28LE

 

[IndyBeerman]

All these new smart fill and safety cans are the result of a "I F+++++ up "lawsuit society. Too stupid to use a simple gas can a spilled gas all over a hot engine and ignited. Someone has to pay, sue the gas can manufacture because of a "so called" design flaw.

I have four 5 gallon gas cans, 1 of the new styles with the air nozzle built into the fill tube, 1 of the old blue kerosene and 1 red plastic gas can with the plastic air cap in the back and one of the new nozzle caps and a old military 5 gallon can.

When I fill my mower I fill it 5 gallons at a time because it has a 6.5 gallon tank, I never use the one with the new nozzle, fortunately it is the same style can as the one with air nozzle built into the fill tube, I just swap them over and then use it.

With my military 5 gallon can, I hate the old metal flex fill tube, I just use a big modified funnel drop 5 gallons in it in about 60 seconds.

Would be nice to have a Nascar style fill tank.

If we don't watch it, lawsuits and environmental freaks will make us resort to using the same thing that IRL uses, fill nozzle that attaches to the device and prevents leakage along with those harmful fumes released into the atmosphere.

Sometimes I wish I lived in a much simpler conservative time.

 

[Bunnykid68]

The Briggs smart cans suck, I'm forced to sell them at work...

The ones I have are the Biltz ones with the plastic squeeze lever that you have to move aside a catch to dispense, but since it's spring loaded, the instant you see the fuel reach the top you let your thumb slip off and the valve snaps shut, the fuel flow stops and the can is sealed... pretty slick. I hated them at first too.

The Briggs "Smart" cans are just a bad design.

Blitz, that is what I meant

 

[KellyinAvon]

I just was looking at my Dad's. Never had to read the instructions on a gas can before.

 

[Leo]

I have two new gas cans that have the new safety fill spouts, they are poorly designd, twist this, press that while pulling that and then the gas comes out three sides at the same time, spilling and spashing all over, especially small engines with small filler openings. It should not require two people working together to use a gas can.

If you have a plastic gas can that needs a replacement spout, Rural King has a replacement kit that is the old fashioned style that actually works for filling lawn mowers and the small tanks on weed eaters and leaf blowers. I highly recommend this product.

 

[wolfman]

I have several of these in various sizes at work, and love them. A little pricy, but will be the last gas can you ever buy. Available in Red for Gasoline, Yellow for Diesel, and Blue for Kerosene

Justrite Mfg: Product Information

 

[Blackdog765]

Thanks for the OP and the links to alternate containers. The whole environmental whacko's thing wears me out. I thought it was pretty funny that the one containers specifically said it was illegal for use in California.

Must be the law makers don't ever have to actually use the products that they make the laws for... Just like healthcare. I challenge any politician to try to use one of these gas cans on one of the lawn mowers that their lawn services use. Impossible.

 

[Leo]

It appears that while we were at work, paying taxes or in the military serving our country, the idiots took over the world........

 

[Tom Threetoes]

If you live close to a Rural King farm store they sell a replacement fill spout kit for most safety cans. For venting I drilled a hole and pulled a tubeless tire valve stem in it for a vent.