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MEXICOWANDERER
Nov 08, 2015Explorer
Imitation almost jerry cans are a laugh. Back in the day when real army surplus was still around a casual heft would demonstrate the genuine cans were three times the weight empty. New cans use garbage grade steel and vastly inferior single rather than double-crimp bottoms. New jerry cans are zinc electriplated which turns the laugh into outright hysterics. The round cans are awful, space wise but the quality is a few dozen cuts above construction that rival's that of a 10-year-old's toy fire engine. The genuine GI WATER jerry cans had a huge flapper bung were even heavier and had some kind of ceramic interior coating. Good metal cans do not rust inside or out and can take a beating. Can't have it all. I wish army surplus was still around. Sigh.
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