Thanks for the explaination and clearification, I don't know of anyone paying those prices for waste oil or waste gasoline around my area, around here you can trade used oil for oil filters at some dealerships otherwise its about 20 cents a gallon.
i add gasoline stabilizer to my 5 gallon red safety can every time i fill it up because the ethanol wreaks havoc on the carbs.
Ok, this is all good. But How do you take your NON DOT gas can to the station to fill it?
:beatsme Food for thought.
I just pull up to the pump and fill it.
Hey you are in AL, you guys down there can't spell DOT!
Here it's not legal to use anything but a container designed for fuel. Supposed to use red for gas, yellow for diesel and blue for kerosene by law. I don't think anyone pays much attention to those laws. I do use the correct colored can simply because if I'm in a rush I grab the filled can that is the correct color for whatever I need fuel for. No mistakes that way.
Rick
But How do you take your NON DOT gas can to the station to fill it?
Mine were , now they aren't. I use 5 gallon steel safety cans.They have the neatest vents on them. Do an internet search for yellow gas can vents. I don't have a commercial vehicle so its not a problem. With self-serve pumps, nobody seems to care what color the can is or what fuel you put in it. All of my cans used to be red and I put both diesel fuel and gas in them. I now have yellow cans for diesel fuel after my grandson filled my JD riding lawn mower with diesel fuel.The question was -
I assume all your colored cans are DOT approved?
Lucky he didn't put the gas in your diesel engine .Ive used 2 gallon galvanized gas cans for saw gas for for 40 years as have many others,now there aren't safe?Has anyone heard of any catastrophies caused by them?
The question was -
I assume all your colored cans are DOT approved?
Naw, I was just teasing when I noticed where you are from about the spelling....
As far as my cans, they are in fact DOT approved. When I wrote that I was still faming so yes I was legal. Now even more so that I'm retired.
Funny thing is I was filling can last summer and putting them in that back of a pickup when a friend in the earth moving business complained about me being able to sue the cheaper DOT approved plastic cans when he was forced to use metal more expensive ones for his low bed trailer aux engine.
Rick
Actually, what they need is NFPA 30 compliance for portable cans, since DOT is now under Performance Oriented Packaging. And mine all meet the NFPA 30 requirements, plus the OSHA 29 CFR 1910.106. Now the truck mounted fuel tanks are different story...they are under the Motor Vehicles Carrier Regulations, IIRC.
Howard