After several years of slow pouring vent spout gas can frustration, they have finally come to their senses and added a vent to these 5 gal type of cans. Saw these on the shelves of my local Canadian Tire this week.
Yes in Canada but I don't know about USA.. I do have a couple No-spill gas cans and I do like them though!
No spill needs to figure out how to incorporate a valved vent into their design. That would make those cans dammed near perfect.
Think a spring loaded flapper style check valve would work that would open on negative pressure then reseal once the vacuum is gone..
I just bought some inexpensive vents off of ebay and installed them myself on my 5 gallon gas cans. They work like a dream. No worrys.
Not sure how that would work since there is fuel present at the manually operated valve? Thinking the vent needs to be located in the air space created when the can is in the pouring position.. Just thinking out loud.. Either way the can works decent for filling mowers, etc..
I was thinking floating vent line but if a separate (automatic) valve would prob be better if it was reliable enough.
Oh OK I see what you're thinking.. Do you know if the vented Canadian gas cans will be coming to the USA?
I actually really like the No-Spills for small equipment and it would be super easy to add a manual vent like the old style cans have. But that wouldn't work for a commercial mfg. The regs for new cans say the can must remain sealed without user intervention. I'm actually surprised nobody has come up with something yet as the lack of a vent while pouring is one of the most frequent complaints about the current cans.
Been there and done that too.... Pretty sad we had to come to this when the original vented cans work well (the way they were designed)
I think something like the Echo tank vent valves could be easily adapted to a fuel container, might be a bit small, maybe use two?, just a thought........
Ironically with the advent of non-vented cans I spilled more gas now than ever until I went to N0-Spill.. Rather self defeating design if you ask me!
But at least we don't have all those nasty hydrocarbon vapors pouring into the atmosphere from those awful old cans! The Eagle-type safety cans (metal and $$) with a vent handle have been around for decades. And they pour very well but are tough to use on small equipment with narrow filler necks.
It wouldn't be a "no spill" can if you cut a vent in. When the fill/vent is submersed it stops the flow of gas and the overfill/spill. Those older cans ,with that ridiculous "push open"/twistlock design that didn't do anything but spill more gas, need to be mandated out of existence, along with their designer.................
True, and that takes me back to tying it into the existing valve, and utilizing an internal floating vent line. The vent would still be blocked once submerged.
