> On 10/12/2012 07:39 PM, Jeff Schwaia wrote:
>> Don't knock plastic gas cans... I saw a set of Rotopax (www.rotopax.com) cans on a Syncro Westy a few months ago.  Very, very nice!  Dang things were nearly bullet proof.
>>

I got one-a Rotopax's 3-gallon gas containers
<http://www.rotopax.com/3-Gallon-Gasoline.html> mounted in the otherwise
unused luggage pocket. I set it up with one of their locking mounting kits.

I hear that filling in that pocket with stuff improves aerodynamics?

--
Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
1984 Westfalia, auto trans,
Bend, Ore.

On 10/12/2012 07:39 PM, Jeff Schwaia wrote:
> Don't knock plastic gas cans... I saw a set of Rotopax (www.rotopax.com) cans on a Syncro Westy a few months ago.  Very, very nice!  Dang things were nearly bullet proof.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jeff
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of Scott Daniel - Turbovans
> Sent: Friday, October 12, 2012 3:37 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: sneaking friday - jerry can find
>
> Since the subject is Jerry Cans..
> I dug out one I have.
> And I am interested in opinions about it's authenticity or pedigree.  .
>
> It's red .....appears to be the original exterior paint.
> It had light sand color paint on the inside ...some remaining, some gone.
> It has a almost 2 inch tall 'G' stamped in the side near the top.
> It has the company name "BLITZ" stamped in it, with a 'R' in a circle for registered trademark.
> It has the classic screw cap 'on belay' with a short piece of chain.
>
> On the bottom it says, stamped in.
> DOT - 5L
> USMC
> 20 - 5 - 85
>
> which could be military date code for May 20, 1985.
> USMC could be US Marine Corps of course.
>
> So ..it is authentic in any way ?
> or a knock-off ?
> Is it a 'real' 27 year old US military can ?
> Looks like it to me.
> I like authentic 'real' old stuff, before everything started being made out of plastic, or extra cheap from various offshore counties.
>
> Opinions welcome.
> thanks.
> scott
>
>
> On 10/12/2012 9:37 AM, Dave Mcneely wrote:
>> ---- Alistair Bell<albell@SHAW.CA>  wrote:
>>> no, I won't be using it as a water can. But I don't know if the painted on lining will take gasoline.
>> Given that it is a water can, I doubt that it would hold gasoline without leaking.  I have seen that before when people tried to use cans that were intended for water or oil for gasoline.  Some work, some don't.  I haven't seen one of those GI Jerry cans in a very long time.  I don't know whether the lid will hold gasoline or not, either.  I also don't know about it meeting transportation standards for gasoline.
>>
>> Might be ok for kerosene, if you have use of that, but five gallons is a lot of kerosene.
>>
>> Nice find, anyway.  David
>>> alistair
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2012-10-12, at 7:15 AM,<mcneely4@cox.net>  <mcneely4@cox.net>  wrote:
>>>
>>>> Alistair, that is an interesting find.  Given where you got it, you
>>>> may want to think about what might have been in it  in the past
>>>> before using it as a water can.  Just a thought.  David
>>>>
>>>> ---- Alistair Bell<albell@SHAW.CA>  wrote:
>>>>> I found an US military jerry can at the local metal scrapyard last week. In good condition but it is a water rather than a fuel can. Still, it will (if I ever finish my bumper and wheel carrier project) be a tempting add-on to the van.
>>>>>
>>>>> some pics here:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://shufti.wordpress.com/2012/10/11/jerry-can/
>>>>>
>>>>> alistair
>>>> --
>>>> David McNeely
>> --
>> David McNeely
>>