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- :C Well at least you saved on tax and shipping. I hate it when I check on a really small part...
PART $4.99
TAX $0.42
SHIPPING $17.42
These vendors have no idea whatsoever of the business they lose. A customer encounters a low price OK, so there's shipping. A quick calculation shows the price with shipping is equal to or higher than competing vendors whose shipping price is rational.
Do I buy from a site such as this? You must be joking. If they play games with pricing they are likely to play games with product warranty or customer service. Black Balled. Forever. - Thanks Mex for posting the info. I bought 3 of the cans. UPS shipping for all 3 added $5 to the tab. It was quickly apparent why the price was down from what it has been: The yellow plastic funnels had a fit problem. About 3 minutes per can with a half-round file and knife fixed them. The can itself looks and feels solid. Haven't filled it yet. Assuming it doesn't leak or anything like that, I'm pretty happy getting a few for $31.67 each. I see that they're now about that same price on Amazon. Maybe the manufacturer had too much inventory and is drawing it down.
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.
~- Only one type of fuel can to own....Scepter...but you need to go to Canada to get them. Illegal in USA.... But you can find grandfathered units on eBay for outrageous prices.
- 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.
- Walmart has Jerry cans online for $29.99. They are much easier to secure in the truck bed.
- I had 2 brand new Blitz brand steel gas cans mounted to the front of my rv prior to a trip to Canada a few years ago and after going through a number of high elevation mountain ranges and back to sea level, they were shrunken and puckered in looking due to the elevation changes. Threw them away afterwards!
- Okay, I can see a steel one standing up to that kind of abuse better than a plastic. Mine rarely see much travel outside of my garden shed. :)
- Strap yourself to a hardware store paint shaker and take a ride. Superb Mexican highway ride simulation.
fj12ryder wrote:
I whole heartedly agree with all you stated. ;)
Personally I like the plastic jerry cans, nothing to rust so there's no scale on the inside. I have several that are 10 years old or more, no rust no fust. LOL
Any of the new fuel cans with the "safety" spouts are a major PIA, steel or plastic.
