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MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
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.
the young-uns don't know......
Many, many years ago I found a couple of olive drab US (military) Jerry cans at a garage sale - $2.50 each.
Still going strong.
Had a couple of other "old style" Jerry cans of more recent mfg -
(maybe mil spec, maybe not) - but still prob 30 years old.
Still going strong.
The original "style" - along with the original NATO cans were banned in the USA a few years ago.
Major fine to sellers offering them for sale after the cut-off date.
Gotta be "spill proof" (Yes, that *is* a joke).
Like mine - the originals are still out there!
Watch the garage sales (in the USA)....:W
(Watch for the metal flexible "correct size" fillers also!)
Other than that - punt.
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