R E A L L Y unleakable fuel container ?

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Plastic or steel. For storing / carrying fuel, and with an add-on spout that DOES NOT LEAK. Guaranteed. Warranted. Proven.


I think I have tried the lot over the years (jerry cans, 25l oil containers, British ones, French ones, German ones) and still (this afternoon) manage to drip diesel onto my boots.


Recommendations please. ;)
 
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sarabande said:
Plastic or steel. For storing / carrying fuel, and with an add-on spout that DOES NOT LEAK. Guaranteed. Warranted. Proven.


I think I have tried the lot over the years (jerry cans, 25l oil containers, British ones, French ones, German ones) and still (this afternoon) manage to drip diesel onto my boots.


Recommendations please. ;)
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I use an ordinary 25 ltr bidon. Lasted for years, fueled up 2/3rds across Biscay. I prop it on the cockpit seat, the filler is on a corner of the sugarscoop. I put an ordinary plastic tube to the bottom of it, other end in filler, put a small piece of tube in the bidon cap hole. Then a piece of cloth to seal the hole, then a big puff into the smalltube gets the siphon going. Judicious tilting as the bidon empties, I can get it all in except for a tablespoon full. Then use the cloth to wipe the tube as it comes out. No spills no mess!
S
 
I use the black plastic 10 litre jerry cans - so far no leaks and nor spout problems either. I've had one for 10 years and the other for maybe half that. However, I don't use them much - perhaps twice per year they get emptied into the tank and then transported by car to be refilled at a nearby petrol station. The rest of the time they just sit full in the cockpit locker.
 
Aeolus said:
I use the black plastic 10 litre jerry cans - so far no leaks and nor spout problems either.
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I have one of those too, bog-standard black 10l diesel can from Halfords. Sits at the bottom of the cockpit locker getting bashed and squeezed by all the other contents, but so far no leaks.

Pete
 
I use a 25 litre container, with a syphon pump which has been extended with a hose to reach the fuel filler, a few pumps then let the syphon do the rest, tipping the container up near the end of the fill, leaves very little in the bottom, if the tank gets to the full point then open the syphon airlock screw to stop flow. simples!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

bit of kitchen towelling to wipe hose down.....
 
sarabande said:
Plastic or steel. For storing / carrying fuel, and with an add-on spout that DOES NOT LEAK. Guaranteed. Warranted. Proven.


I think I have tried the lot over the years (jerry cans, 25l oil containers, British ones, French ones, German ones) and still (this afternoon) manage to drip diesel onto my boots.
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Is it not an old truism that the last drop always falls on your trouser leg......................................
 
I have six Machine Mart 20 litre jerry cans dating back to 2001/ 2002 from when I first had a petrol engined boat (anyone wan to buy a few ?). Never leaked even when on their sides, I always used ( for 12 years) a Machine Mart Syphon pump to offload them, never a spill or explosion.
 
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thank you Nick R and PVB, and others for comments. Washers/gaskets is the next step.

Most of my collection of 5 jerry cans have the fibre washers that were probably installed in WW2. I'll try changing them for these new-fangled rubbery plastic ones.

That may well solve the prob from the metal cans and their spouts, but the plastic ones and their screw-on type filler pipes will most likely end up being cut up into strips for my polyethylene welding experiments. They are truly designed by the devil's second assistant deputy work-experience apprentice on a bad Friday afternoon.
 
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