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Originally Posted by Kreeve
Hmmm does this mean i should fill the back of my truck with gas cans and drive south of the border? would someone please post a picture of these spills more fuel then the old but newer and improved spouts please? what you may be able to do is look online for canadian supliers with replacement spouts and just have them shipped to you. just match brands.
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Do you mean that Canadians can still get real gas cans? As far as I knew, the only Canadian mfg was Wedco in Quebec, who made super cans. But several years ago, they got bought by a US company who then moved the manufacturing to USA and that company no longer makes the good old cans or even nozzles for them. Generally, it isn't the cans that wear out, it's the nozzles and gaskets.
If there's a Canadian company still making old-fashioned "real" gas cans, do you have brand name/web site/etc info?
This gas can situation is just like the toilet situation back in the 1990s. After our nanny government made it so we could only buy "low flow" toilets that didn't work worth a ****, I drove up to Ontario and bought a toilet. Eventually, US mfg figured out how to make low flow toilets work and now US ones are OK. Maybe a gas can mfg will eventually make "safe" cans that actually work.
I should have realized this was coming years ago. California of course was the first place you couldn't buy real gas cans, so about 10 years ago I bought a couple good ones in NH and took them with me as checked baggage to CA. Now all you can get anywhere in New England is the crappy ones that don't work. I kick myself for not seeing that and buying more of the good cans then.
These are some great suggestions on this thread.