Simple question, I hope. I keep three 5-gallon gasoline jerry cans in my garage to fuel my generator. I'm trying to rotate the gas in one can out every six months into my wife's car so I can refresh it. But it's a major pain trying to lift that can up and pour it (oh so slowly) into the tank. I bought a cheap siphon at Lowe's and it worked as well as you'd expect -- that it, it didn't, and broke easily.

I'd really like to get something industrial grade, with perhaps a hand crank, reliable, reusable, etc. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance. -Gary

The Northern Tool & Equipment Co. has a lot to chose from. I bought mine from there.

http://www.northerntool.com/

Here's the one I bought.

http://www.northerntool.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_6970_396428_396428

I just added a section of hose to put in the truck gas fill tube and the other end just sits in the gas can. Might work for you might not, seems to work fine for me. Just a suggestion.

I also have a funnel that has a long wide round opening(10in across by 12 in deep) as opposed to the short traditional funnel design which allows me to pour large amounts at a pretty fast pace. I do hate the new design gas cans that they make you buy now, does anyone know of an adapter kit or a hose to replace those stupid fill tubes?

The Black and Decker Jackrabbit hand pump is supposed to work pretty well. Haven't purchased one to try, yet...

Harbor freight gets my vote, over 5 hurricanes and still going strong. Spent many days refilling the Generac 12.5KW from the food grade $25 plastic 55 gallon barrel. Killed me on the gas bill but was nice powering the entire house 100% for days when every body was without power. I guess you got to pay to play.

http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?Itemnumber=34679

I saw a really cool set up on the Discovery channel once where this guy had a length of hose connected to the neck of a 2-liter coke bottle.

He had a small hole poked in the base of the coke bottle so that when he sucked on the bottle the fluid started to collect in the bottle instead of his mouth (as I've had gas do to me once ---blech!!).

Never tried it myself and using the manufactured ones are definately safer but if you're in a crunch ....

Had not heard about using the coke bottle, will have to remember that one. Have tasted gas before too, it's something to avoid.

Have one of these and it empties a five gallon jerry can in around a minute,

http://tinyurl.com/2fojdw

But you do have to have the can higher than what you are filling.

And the fix for the California cans is a hacksaw and a cork, at least that is what i see on the back of some of the lawn maintenance trailers around here.

It's illegal to store more than 5 gallons of petrol at your home in the UK. And for a very good reason. It has more explosive power than dynamite (hence fuel air bombs devastating effect). Don't do it.
simon

Glad I don't live in the U.K.

Sorry, air fuel bombs are not just a can of gas that gets to go off. It needs to be vaporized and mixed with air between the upper and lower explosive limits, otherwise no boom. The 5 gal limit is probably more in line with insurance company ideas and houses burning down.

Bill

I have a story about this. Some of you may have already heard this but it'll be instructional for new members.

Growing up in Minnesota my mom used to catch rain water in 5-gal buckets. One winter she never brought the buckets in so the water in them froze. For some reason I decided to dump the chunks of ice out and in doing so I discovered the water had frozen from the outside towards the middle. The ice was about 1.5" thick on the sides and maybe about 3" thick on the top and bottom. I drilled a hole in the top of one of them and poured out the unfrozen water from the center. Pondering what to do next I decided it'd be really cool to see fire burning inside of ice so I got dad's gas can and poured about an inch of gas into the hollow ice block. Thinking about the safety of this setup, I tipped the block over and rolled it about twenty feet from the house, then set it upright again.

After that, things get a little blurry. I remember lighting a match and, looking straight down over the hole, beginning to drop the match in. Suddenly I couldn't see, my hand hurt, and my ears were ringing but I could hear large "WHUNK!" sounds as chunks of ice crashed out of the sky onto our house, our car, the neighbor's car, etc...

I was only seven at the time but from that second on I knew what I wanted to do with my life.

-Blast

p.s. Kids, don't try this at home! Find a gravel pit or something like that. Make sure it has cell phone coverage and is accessible by ambulance.