I have tried and used about everything but this new 1 1/4 gal NO-SPILL jug has to be the best and simplest that I have ever used.
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The size is perfect for me and the clear "sight gauge" on each end shows how much is left plus when you have exactly one gallon in the jug for mixing.
Touch the green button and it relieves the pressure before using so no spray surprise. Also the green button immediately stops the flow so no overflow on fill up.
I have been using NO-SPILL 5 gallon Diesel jugs for years so I don't know what took me so long.
Old dog, new tricks. zzzz_smiley
I'm in the same boat.
"don't know what took me so long . . "
The old gas containers were such survivors that I didn't have the heart to toss them - until I backed over one of 'em with the loader. 😵
Been using them for years
I have never seen this 1 1/4 gallon jug in any. store. I was searching for a suitable 1 gallon jug when this one popped up. $30 and free shipping so kinda pricey, but well worth the cost.
they carry them in the farm stores here. TSC here. your metal ones are at HF. I have a 5-gallon plastic regular jug. to get av fuel. and pour into a 2.5-gallon jug like this to mix with the silver Stihl oil mix.
I have gone 100% to the 5 gallon (yellow) NO-SPILL for Diesel and have a couple of 2 1/2 gallon red jugs, but I have never seen and did not know that they offered the 1 1/4 gallon jugs. I really like it.
NO_SPILL brand is the best can of any material, and any price. It works in solving the problem it was designed to solve, and in the process, it actually makes pouring fuel easier, rather than infuriating like the other autosealing jugs. Metal cans are sexy, but they just don't work as well as NO-SPILL. I have a 5G, and a 1.25G. I might buy another one or two 5G cans for hauling corn free fuel. I don't absolutely need more. I have plastic cans that work after a fashion, but they just aren't as nice.
I agree, I'm a big fan of the No-spill cans. Like lxskllr says, they solved an engineering problem, and made a better can in the process.
I do curse them occasionally if I forget to vent them before I go to pour fuel. Whatever the EPA was trying to accomplish by not allowing any vapor to escape is more than made up for by the fuel that is sprayed out and evaporates🤷
That said, I prefer the No-spill over even the traditional vented cans. They're just a great product, and you can get replacement parts for the nozzles etc from the company.
For cans bigger than 2.5 gallons I prefer to use the shaker siphon hose rather than trying to pour out a big, heavy 5 gallon can.
Hey nice can! I think our local store carries that brand but don't know if they have the smaller size can. Always wondered if they worked good or not. Here's some pictures of my favorite cans. But the old metal forestry can is my favorite.
I don't use many gas-fuel cans around here. I have set up a nice fuel trailer with diesel and gas on it. I have for at least the last fifteen years been using the 2.5 gallon no spill fuel can for my chain saw gas and just love it. The two guys that help me put up wood have like that jug so well they even bought the five gallon version for hauling there mower gas in. Growing up in the fuel business I have been around a lot of gas-fuel cans and the no spill are the best.
Well I have been using that 1.25 gallon can for about a dozen years now. I got mine for my local Husky guy (Spike60). Although it seemed pricey to a cheap old man at the time, I think around $20 or so, it was the prefect size. I don't like mixing a lot of gas in one shot. I prefer to have it fresh, so sometimes I have to mix it a couple of times a week, and sometimes I go a few weeks before I need to mix more. I do wich the plastic was a bit thicker like the old cans. Mine bloats out like a sun roasted pig carcass on a hot day.
I still have a combi-can, NOS with no spouts I would love to put in service if I could just find the spouts. I have a 2.5 gallon that was given to me (full), which I have never used. I have a pair of standard plain vanilla plastic cans I use for bringing the fuel home, but then it goes in mowers, tillers, the Mule, or my saw can.
That same No-Spill company sells a clear tube that fits the nozzle on their fuel cans. I have some with and some without the tube. The tube is great for some applications. One thing is the design helps me not over fill the machines. And as mentioned by Barbender nozzle parts are easy to find at our local stores. I will need to look for the 1.25 or 1.5 size. I was not aware they made one smaller than 2.5 gallon. Thanks for the heads-up Magicman.
Old school Al .Good old 2 gallon Blitz can for the saws .Four metal round 5 gallon gas cans for the mower and tractors and at least a dozen 5 gallon gerry cans I seldom use .Two more old metal cans ,5 gallon.One for kerosene one for diesel fuel in case I want to burn a slash pile .
Unlike some I will not use gasoline to start a fire .That's a good way to end your life if you do --don't---
Now then gerry cans,GI cans or whatever you want to call them .Two styles ,screw down lids or clip type hinged lids .Eventually they all leak but you can either make the lid gaskets or buy them .
My jugs stay in the back of my open truck 24-7, so they have to be water proof. Even under my carport, the tail sticks out and it catches plenty of rain.
I have made the circle from military, Blitz, Chinese jerry, metal round, Scribner, VP, and now to NO-SPILL. I doubt that I will ever change again.
All of that and now Rattle Rattle has me looking at truck bed covers. help_me I once read something about grown men and their toys. :wacky:
I keep my can in a catfood bag in the back of the truck. It's to protect it from sunlight. Sun's hard on plastic.
I have a pallet on the north side of the building where ai store them. I do not want a ton of gas in the shop. Need to build a well aerated shed, like with boards and batten without the battens. so mine get mold growing in the depressions.
My inherited fuel storage cabinet is an old beer cooler from Rays of Reading, on casters no less! Unfortunately, the metal shelving apparently wore thru an already well used metal can (also inherited) and dumped 5 gallons of diesel on the barn floor. What a mess! Brought home 2 new No-Spill yellow cans from TSC today, thanks for all the recommendations.... :thumbsup:
Scott B.
i also have an old beer cooler kegerator and store both aluminum and glass container of "fuel"! smiley_beertoast
I decided I needed another diesel fuel can after getting a older Kabota tractor running that I now use for mowing.Found out that No-Spill has a Blue kerosene can that is $5 cheaper than their yellow diesel can.Couldn't see any difference except color so being the way I am I bought the blue one.
that can be designated off road red dye diesel.
Doesn't matter as long as you know.
I have been using a factory labeled "Water" jug for traveling RV generator gas for years.
For chainsaws I always liked the small vented plastic can. I would take the spout out and leave the main cap tight and use the vent hole to fill up the saw, just remove the vent cap and turn the can up and squeeze the can a couple of times and the saw was full and when you stop squeezing the can it would suck a bit of air in and stop letting fuel out for a few seconds and flip the can back up. Quick and easy, no messing with the spout.
No longer have those cans so got one of the annoying ones with the vented spout but was told the other day that for saw gas some guys will cut a top off a large plastic pop bottle to fit the spout gasket on and put that instead of spout and cap. Remove the bottle cap to pour fuel in the saw and replace the cap, no messing with the spout. I think I may try it but the only problem is we don't drink pop so might have to buy one and just dump it out.
My old stand by, I never spill a drop. Also leaves a little head space.
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The only concern I would have is having a water jug full of gas, and someone has a fire and grabs that jug unknowing.
It's also an unapproved container. Probably depends on local culture, but some stations around here will stop you if you try to fill the wrong color, or use a non fuel container.
I have that same one Donk. I had to order it from the UK, it's great. No spilling, just remember to vent it before you go to dispense. I'm a chronic saw gas overfiller so that can has probably saved me what I paid for it in unspilled fuel.
I'm old enough I remember the brutal winters of the 50's and 60's .So last of fall I stock up on gasoline , propane and of course fire wood .I've got propane heat which doesn't do much good unless you have electric power .That's what the two generators are for if it goes out .Plenty of heat,food and barley pop .
Quote from: SwampDonkey on June 19, 2024, 04:30:44 AMMy old stand by, I never spill a drop. Also leaves a little head space.
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I've been using one of those for a couple of years now. Wish I'd found it long ago. Gas oil and a few simple tools in one container. I like the fact that it fills the fuel and the oil to just below the brim of the saw's tanks and then stops.
You definitely do need to remember to vent the fuel side before filling if the temperature has warmed at all since it was filled.
It's a bummer that they are not sold in the US. I had to order mine from the UK, which drove the price up a bit.
I use the same. Great jugs.
I've been using the no spill jugs for several years I have 2 1 1/4, a 5 gal and a yellow for diesel. I also have several other 5 gal jugs for gasoline. I will typically fill the no spill from the spout type jugs. As my other jugs age out I will replace them with no spill. I keep several jugs filled with 93 octane non ethanol in a fuel locker that I built.
I have been using the NoSpill Yellow Diesel jugs for several years.
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And there are three in the back of my work truck.
My nice surprise was finding that they made a 1 1/4 gallon jug for my chainsaw gas. ffsmiley
I once used old anti freeze jugs for the saw gas until one day I anti freezed a saw only to dump saw gas in a tractor radiator .So much for that idea .
you can paint metal cans to designate fuel type, and I bought a chrome one to carry extra diesel for travel. They are chromed so I bought some official sticker to label then gas or diesel. We have found ourselves getting low and a ways from fuel in parts of the country.
I actually have a kerosene can,5 gallon Delphos brand BTW I live about 15 miles from Delphos Ohio .The diesel I use an old military gerry can and only use that stuff to light a slash pile because I don't own a diesel engine other than my old D4 Caterpillers I haven't used in 30 years . It only takes about a quart of diesel to ignite a slash pile so 5 gallons lasts a long time .
On public land and mill land they make us use labels on the gas jugs. It's not even a label that says gas or diesel, is a WHIMIS thing. Means 'Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System'. WHMIS.org (https://whmis.org/)
Last oil I bought was Penzoil synthetic(5qt jug). I usually use walmart synthetic, but I got the Penzoil cause it comes in a yellow jug. I wanted the yellow bottle so I can put a gallon of diesel in it for miscellaneous cleaning purposes. Don't tell anyone it's unapproved ;^)
Mineral Spirits is an overlooked solvent/cleaner. I have used a squirt bottle of MS to remove pitch from the sawblade rather than Diesel.
Lxsklr may be onto something there. We keep some oil and fuel for the chainsaw down at the mill. we don't use much just for cutting slabs, but we need some on hand. Problem is Bill uses a Husky oil jug for the bar oil and also uses a Husky oil jug for the fuel. I have to check very carefully... EVERYTIME. You know what is bound to happen, right? I tried marking it with a sharpie, but it seems to keep wearing off. Lumber crayon don't work good on plastic either. I'll look for a different color jug that works.
I got the 2 1/2 jug works well. :thumbsup: