Thanks very much for the video and the detailed explanation. I lack the 3-D printer but you provided enough other info that I can do a work around. Never thought I'd have to watch an instructional video to see how to use a gas can! Thanks again.
Glad it was helpful! Government nonsense at its highest... and wasting our money in the process. Thanks for watching. Please subscribe! That is what keeps this channel going. Ron
No. I have taken all of that nonsense out of the nozzle. I have never spilled so much gas as with the nozzle as originally supplied! I also have a video on a 3D printed replacement nozzle and cap. Thanks for watching! Ron
I do not have anything to adapt a metal spout and I personally have not found one on thingiverse. I do have the following: Midwest Gas Can - New Pour Spout & Cap ruclips.net/video/p3BW8SNs4Kc/видео.html After 1-1/2 years I had the caps and pour spouts originally printed in PLA start to fail. I have reprinted then using PETG which will take a while to evaluate in the presence of gasoline (liquid and fumes). Thanks for watching. Please subscribe. That's what keeps this channel going! Ron
I just bought this can in 2022 and it worked flawlessly. Maybe others who have had a good experience or knows why it's better than this video charges. I have no problem with removing it to put it in the trunk. It seals snugly for transport. Frankly an extended spout is screaming danger danger in a trunk just from fumes alone. Replacement seals are available through the company.
Always found wanting with jerry can/tank nossles. The accordion style flexible ones are my least favourite as they alway fail on the accordion. Polyethylene Pe and The high density type that the gas can is made of are highly resistant to gasoline. Wouldn't it make sense to use a cap that can use a standard plumbing size of pe pipe to transfer the fuel with a small breather?
Plastic products are supposed to have that recycling triangle with the letters stating what type plastic it is made of. Interesting to note the triangle on this gas can says "other".
Ron, thanks for this video. I did similar mods to mine and now don't make a mess with it. I don't have a 3-d printer so I just drape a red shop rag over the opening and get automatic venting. Simple! But yours would be better while transporting... I just make sure it's not going to turn over on the way back from the gas station. Never had any problems and the evaporation is negligible. I like your channel very much!
Thank you. FYI ... I will release a video sometime in Dec for an o-ring seal transport cap and my own self venting nozzle design. If you are a builder / maker person you should consider a 3D Printer. Never thought I would ever own one but started playing around with them last year after shoulder surgery and now I have three of them. The Ender-3 n ow costs less that $200. Thanks for watching! Ron
These are 3D print parts of my design. As shown in the video and also listed in the video description, are links to Thingiverse where you can find the stl files.
Are there any other reasons to keep your gas can out of the sun other than the colour, my dad's one has gone pink over time and I just would like to know
A gas can sitting out in the sun will heat up and evaporate or gas-off faster. Plastic which has deteriorated in the sun has been weakened. You may use it one day and the can will in some way fail... such as split. Just a matter of time.
Fantastic you're a good teacher success hallelujah I feel sorry for the current generations that won't even know the pain they're being put through in the name of avoiding risk.
You cover different territory here as most either try to live with the new poorly designed cans or put in a vent and new spout...or use old cans like me. Interesting video but this is why I go on Craigslist and buy old but okay gas cans that actually work...in my area animals chew plastic cans and are getting into where I store them so I look for metal cans but plastic does have less condensation problems and of course doesn't rust but some metal cans had pretty good galvanization and or coatings... The whole situation is ridiculous! The only thing that might make sense is the addition of a spark arrestor...and even then only if it doesn't compromise my use... As far as even older "Safety Cans" okay on the spark arrestor but as for springed caps I somehow have been able to screw caps back on after use all these years and not just leave open gas cans lying around... so okay, they seem to work but other than a spark arrestor screen as an individual I've never seen why I should pay more for them... although they are usually made well... They are easier to find in metal... In some environments they are required...
Well, I just purchased this thing today. I needed a second can for my 2 stroke and wanted to keep my old can for "regular" gas. As I usually do with new stuff, I opened and assembled it before reading the directions, you know, because its a gas can and how difficult can a gas can be? I measured and poured the mix into the can, and put on the cap and nozzle. I tightened the cap and the child safety tab stuck on the triangle shaped lug on the can, then the tab snapped off! Well, at least that saved me the step of removing such a silly thing. I went to fill the boat tank, but couldnt get a single drop out. So, I look at the label and find the directions. I read through them, then followed the steps..still nothing. I re-read the steps, which tell you to tighten the cap, then loosen to vent. I tried again, nothing. I thought it had to be vented to start pouring, so I slowly loosened it while tipped into the tank. Slowly slowly slowly, until naturally, I started spilling gas. I re-re-read the directions. This went on for 20 minutes, which is 19 minutes longer than using a gas can should take. After some colorful language, I removed the cap, grabbed my funnel, which I used to change the oil on the cars earlier, and had to clean, and simply poured the gas in, and guess what, I didnt spill anything. I put the can in the corner of the garage, simply disgusted. I snapped a pic of the label, and went online to complain, when I came across the video from Midwest Gas Can. I cant believe they had to put a tutorial out, but yeah, just following the label, I dont know how long it would have taken to figure this thing out. No where on the label does it show or explain the nozzle needs to be depressed in order to use. Now that I know this, Im considering an electric boat. Thanks for the Vid.
Joe, One of the better comments I have received in a while. Funny stuff… you should write short stories. :-) I have never spilled so much gas as with one of these “spill-proof” cans. Bureauctacy at its finest. Government mandated cars we cannot work on and user-proof gas cans. And a sealed can, will eventually pressurize and the can will (or can) split. I have had it happen. This video shows how to modify what comes with the can. Result is better but still junk. If you have a 3D printer or a friend with a 3D printer… I have another video showing my design for a replacement spout and a cap (for when you go to get gas) so you don’t spill gas in you vehicle. Some car trunks will not close with the can and spout sticking up. Thanks for watching. Please subscribe. That is what keeps this channel running. Ron
This is a great video.✅ Can I give you my address to make me spout cap like the one you made with your 3-D printer? I cannot believe how difficult they made a gas spout. Definitely over engineered it. I ended up using a funnel. Mine also leaked all over the place before the funnel like you said. I’m going to give it another shot. If it doesn’t work again, then I’ll take it all apart! There’s a guy on here that has a video where he takes out the spring, then removes the gasket… And cuts the child proof tab. Works pretty good after that it’s on The Harbor Freight website.
I do not sell or make these for anyone else. The stl files are provided for free and the thingiverse link is in the video description. You will need to print your own. Look around, one of your friends probably has a 3D printer or possibly your library has one. * Tips are gladly accepted and much appreciated. * I suggest you consider the new and improved pour spout. Midwest Gas Can - New & Improved Pour Spout ruclips.net/video/D6MU4pFaGvk/видео.html Thanks for watching. Please subscribe. Ron
If you have a 3D printer or access to one... I have another video showing the nozzle and cap I designed for one of these cans. Thanks for watching. Please subscribe. That is what keeps this channel running! Ron
Very nice. As a person of a particular age, I have a strong aversion to modern product safety - and an extraordinary disdain for adult-proof packaging. If you have watched a determined three-year-old, you will have noticed that they can open damned near anything.
Thanks for your video ... I don’t have a 3-D printer but I took a 99 cent pair of harbor freight snips and cut the excess “catch” plastic off of the child proof cap and use the original. Those dimensions would be good if you lost the original so great content.
In all honesty the "Before Testing" would have captured language I would not have been able to use in this video anyway. The after testing is left to the viewer... and if they don't like the results (but I assure they will), they can put it all back together as original and fight with it every time they try to use it. If deemed necessary, a small screw will plug the drilled hole.
Thanks for sharing this. I also hate these gas cans. I thought maybe I had just got a few bad ones, but it seems like this is just be a bad design. I use an electric lawn mower now, so I don’t handle as much gas as I used to.
That red cap fits on the other end of the spout too... So you can keep it to prevent anything from getting into the nozel. It sounds like you struggle with these new spouts a lot more than I do. I like these a lot more than the old crappy crazy straw style ones that leaked like crazy. The only issue I have is that occasionally the hook will slip off the edge of whatever I'm filling and shoot into the tank, but that's not a huge deal. Makes filling some things easier when you can "shut off" the flow with out having to tip the can all the way back down
I have one of those gas cans well actually several, I will make my gas can usable (MGCU) when I refuel my lawn mower I have be concerned about depressing the spring to open the valve by using the lip of the gas tank on the mower. I am afraid one day the plastic tabs holding the gas tank is going to break.
Totally agree. These new cans are garbage. Got 5 of them. Same problem with them all. Garbage, spilt more gas than I ever did with the military gas cans and donkey dick adaptors
These gas cans suck! Impossible to unscrew because it is obstructed. I had to use a tool and burn the little piece of plastic off just to get the nozzle out. DO NOT BUY!
Thanks very much for the video and the detailed explanation. I lack the 3-D printer but you provided enough other info that I can do a work around. Never thought I'd have to watch an instructional video to see how to use a gas can! Thanks again.
Glad it was helpful!
Government nonsense at its highest... and wasting our money in the process.
Thanks for watching. Please subscribe!
That is what keeps this channel going.
Ron
Will it still have the auto stop when fill your lawnmower after modifying the spout?
No. I have taken all of that nonsense out of the nozzle.
I have never spilled so much gas as with the nozzle as originally supplied!
I also have a video on a 3D printed replacement nozzle and cap.
Thanks for watching!
Ron
Thank you very much.
Is there an adaptor on thingyverse to use an old style metal spout?
I do not have anything to adapt a metal spout and I personally have not found one on thingiverse.
I do have the following:
Midwest Gas Can - New Pour Spout & Cap
ruclips.net/video/p3BW8SNs4Kc/видео.html
After 1-1/2 years I had the caps and pour spouts originally printed in PLA start to fail. I have reprinted then using PETG which will take a while to evaluate in the presence of gasoline (liquid and fumes).
Thanks for watching. Please subscribe.
That's what keeps this channel going!
Ron
my midwest tan came with a white plastic thing inside the opening.. trying to find out how to remove it.
Not familiar with that.
thats a flame arrestor screen whuch doubles as a shit filter. don't remove it.
Just pull it out screwdriver and needle nose pliers
Good fix but I just got a funnel. I’m done with crazy new gas nozzles. Lol
I just bought this can in 2022 and it worked flawlessly. Maybe others who have had a good experience or knows why it's better than this video charges. I have no problem with removing it to put it in the trunk. It seals snugly for transport. Frankly an extended spout is screaming danger danger in a trunk just from fumes alone. Replacement seals are available through the company.
Alternatively, just stop at 6:30 and use a funnel as a cap. The fumes are minimal and no worries about pressure...
Always found wanting with jerry can/tank nossles. The accordion style flexible ones are my least favourite as they alway fail on the accordion. Polyethylene Pe and The high density type that the gas can is made of are highly resistant to gasoline. Wouldn't it make sense to use a cap that can use a standard plumbing size of pe pipe to transfer the fuel with a small breather?
Plastic products are supposed to have that recycling triangle with the letters stating what type plastic it is made of. Interesting to note the triangle on this gas can says "other".
thank you!! thank you!!!
Ron, thanks for this video. I did similar mods to mine and now don't make a mess with it. I don't have a 3-d printer so I just drape a red shop rag over the opening and get automatic venting. Simple! But yours would be better while transporting... I just make sure it's not going to turn over on the way back from the gas station. Never had any problems and the evaporation is negligible. I like your channel very much!
Thank you. FYI ... I will release a video sometime in Dec for an o-ring seal transport cap and my own self venting nozzle design. If you are a builder / maker person you should consider a 3D Printer. Never thought I would ever own one but started playing around with them last year after shoulder surgery and now I have three of them. The Ender-3 n ow costs less that $200. Thanks for watching! Ron
Ronald where did you get the white nozzle cap?
These are 3D print parts of my design. As shown in the video and also listed in the video description, are links to Thingiverse where you can find the stl files.
Why not drill a small hole on the backside of the handle ?
Mostly because it will allow gasoline to spill out when you carry it in your vehicle going to get the can filled.
Are there any other reasons to keep your gas can out of the sun other than the colour, my dad's one has gone pink over time and I just would like to know
A gas can sitting out in the sun will heat up and evaporate or gas-off faster. Plastic which has deteriorated in the sun has been weakened. You may use it one day and the can will in some way fail... such as split. Just a matter of time.
Fantastic you're a good teacher success hallelujah I feel sorry for the current generations that won't even know the pain they're being put through in the name of avoiding risk.
You can buy gas can vents on Amazon. 1/2 inch hole drilled in the tank up high. Snaps in.
I like a steel truck valve stem with the valve removed better than the snap shut ones (remove the gasket from the valve cap)
You cover different territory here as most either try to live with the new poorly designed cans or put in a vent and new spout...or use old cans like me.
Interesting video but this is why I go on Craigslist and buy old but okay gas cans that actually work...in my area animals chew plastic cans and are getting into where I store them so I look for metal cans but plastic does have less condensation problems and of course doesn't rust but some metal cans had pretty good galvanization and or coatings...
The whole situation is ridiculous!
The only thing that might make sense is the addition of a spark arrestor...and even then only if it doesn't compromise my use...
As far as even older "Safety Cans" okay on the spark arrestor but as for springed caps I somehow have been able to screw caps back on after use all these years and not just leave open gas cans lying around...
so okay, they seem to work but other than a spark arrestor screen as an individual I've never seen why I should pay more for them... although they are usually made well...
They are easier to find in metal...
In some environments they are required...
Well, I just purchased this thing today. I needed a second can for my 2 stroke and wanted to keep my old can for "regular" gas. As I usually do with new stuff, I opened and assembled it before reading the directions, you know, because its a gas can and how difficult can a gas can be? I measured and poured the mix into the can, and put on the cap and nozzle. I tightened the cap and the child safety tab stuck on the triangle shaped lug on the can, then the tab snapped off! Well, at least that saved me the step of removing such a silly thing. I went to fill the boat tank, but couldnt get a single drop out. So, I look at the label and find the directions. I read through them, then followed the steps..still nothing. I re-read the steps, which tell you to tighten the cap, then loosen to vent. I tried again, nothing. I thought it had to be vented to start pouring, so I slowly loosened it while tipped into the tank. Slowly slowly slowly, until naturally, I started spilling gas. I re-re-read the directions. This went on for 20 minutes, which is 19 minutes longer than using a gas can should take. After some colorful language, I removed the cap, grabbed my funnel, which I used to change the oil on the cars earlier, and had to clean, and simply poured the gas in, and guess what, I didnt spill anything. I put the can in the corner of the garage, simply disgusted. I snapped a pic of the label, and went online to complain, when I came across the video from Midwest Gas Can. I cant believe they had to put a tutorial out, but yeah, just following the label, I dont know how long it would have taken to figure this thing out. No where on the label does it show or explain the nozzle needs to be depressed in order to use. Now that I know this, Im considering an electric boat. Thanks for the Vid.
Joe,
One of the better comments I have received in a while.
Funny stuff… you should write short stories. :-)
I have never spilled so much gas as with one of these “spill-proof” cans. Bureauctacy at its finest. Government mandated cars we cannot work on and user-proof gas cans.
And a sealed can, will eventually pressurize and the can will (or can) split. I have had it happen.
This video shows how to modify what comes with the can. Result is better but still junk.
If you have a 3D printer or a friend with a 3D printer… I have another video showing my design for a replacement spout and a cap (for when you go to get gas) so you don’t spill gas in you vehicle. Some car trunks will not close with the can and spout sticking up.
Thanks for watching. Please subscribe.
That is what keeps this channel running.
Ron
This is a great video.✅
Can I give you my address to make me spout cap like the one you made with your 3-D printer?
I cannot believe how difficult they made a gas spout. Definitely over engineered it.
I ended up using a funnel.
Mine also leaked all over the place before the funnel like you said.
I’m going to give it another shot. If it doesn’t work again, then I’ll take it all apart!
There’s a guy on here that has a video where he takes out the spring, then removes the gasket…
And cuts the child proof tab.
Works pretty good after that
it’s on The Harbor Freight website.
I do not sell or make these for anyone else.
The stl files are provided for free and the thingiverse link is in the video description.
You will need to print your own. Look around, one of your friends probably has a 3D printer or possibly your library has one.
* Tips are gladly accepted and much appreciated. *
I suggest you consider the new and improved pour spout.
Midwest Gas Can - New & Improved Pour Spout
ruclips.net/video/D6MU4pFaGvk/видео.html
Thanks for watching. Please subscribe.
Ron
Thanks for the tip. You know it's a bad product when Midwest turns off the comments on their own video page.
If you have a 3D printer or access to one... I have another video showing the nozzle and cap I designed for one of these cans.
Thanks for watching.
Please subscribe. That is what keeps this channel running!
Ron
Only the government could f@ck up a gas can.
Checked out one of those in the store the other day, when I took it apart and gave it a closer look.....said nope this ain't happening.
Very nice. As a person of a particular age, I have a strong aversion to modern product safety - and an extraordinary disdain for adult-proof packaging. If you have watched a determined three-year-old, you will have noticed that they can open damned near anything.
I gave up on all that. I now use a battery-powered transfer pump that goes into my 5-gallon gas cans. No lifting, no spills, no problems.
Great video!!! Well narrated (great dry humor too 😂) super helpful
Thanks for your video ... I don’t have a 3-D printer but I took a 99 cent pair of harbor freight snips and cut the excess “catch” plastic off of the child proof cap and use the original. Those dimensions would be good if you lost the original so great content.
Good explanation but a before and after demo of how they work would’ve been interesting.
In all honesty the "Before Testing" would have captured language I would not have been able to use in this video anyway. The after testing is left to the viewer... and if they don't like the results (but I assure they will), they can put it all back together as original and fight with it every time they try to use it. If deemed necessary, a small screw will plug the drilled hole.
Thanks for sharing this. I also hate these gas cans. I thought maybe I had just got a few bad ones, but it seems like this is just be a bad design. I use an electric lawn mower now, so I don’t handle as much gas as I used to.
That red cap fits on the other end of the spout too... So you can keep it to prevent anything from getting into the nozel. It sounds like you struggle with these new spouts a lot more than I do. I like these a lot more than the old crappy crazy straw style ones that leaked like crazy. The only issue I have is that occasionally the hook will slip off the edge of whatever I'm filling and shoot into the tank, but that's not a huge deal. Makes filling some things easier when you can "shut off" the flow with out having to tip the can all the way back down
I have one of those gas cans well actually several, I will make my gas can usable (MGCU) when I refuel my lawn mower I have be concerned about depressing the spring to open the valve by using the lip of the gas tank on the mower. I am afraid one day the plastic tabs holding the gas tank is going to break.
My old blitz gas can spouts fit my new Midwest cans so I bought new blitz can spouts on eBay. That solved my gas can spout problems
These suck… no they leak brand new
Excellent video Ron, these gas cans are a joke, and do nothing but add cost to them and spill more gas!!!! Thanks for the great video! W
PLEASE DO NOT THROW GAS ONTO AN OPEN FLAME and KEEP THE GAS and CAN AWAY FROM FIRE !!!!!! BE SAFE !!!!!
I hate these gas can nozzles. Are you working on something better?
I am working on it. Printing some prototypes now. Then testing... so it will be a while.
Just broke my cap today. Might have to buy this whole setup just for that one piece and keep it jerry rigged the way I already have it
Just throw the Midwest can nozzle away as far as you can. Get an EZ pour spout and vent kit from ebay. Easy fix for government stupidity.
I buy vintage, metal tanks.
This is way over-engineered, I have never spilt fuel with a can that has the tube attached and so I don't see any advantage to this.
There is no advantage to this nonsense.
My gas can is metal and over 40 years old not subject to the utter nonsense coming out of Washington DC.
Take good care of it!
Totally agree. These new cans are garbage. Got 5 of them. Same problem with them all. Garbage, spilt more gas than I ever did with the military gas cans and donkey dick adaptors
These gas cans suck! Impossible to unscrew because it is obstructed. I had to use a tool and burn the little piece of plastic off just to get the nozzle out. DO NOT BUY!
Should start a series here and call it "Ronald Walters Solid Solutions".