For a while I was buying european military metal fuel cans, the 20 liter
variety.  They were getting expensive I thought so I bought about 6 of
these, includin one french-made can (brad new) with a non-standard
opening.  I like the euro (NATO, really) cans better because the spouts
work better, even though I usually use a siphon tube.  the red lining is
impervious to everything.

I also bought a couple of plastic water cans that look similar to fuel cans.

I only thought these were expensive then.  Now they cannot be found.  Last
I saw they were going around minimum $50-70 each for the authentic ones.
There are some new knock-offs that are junk - don't buy those.

Something I did find in the process of all of this was 5 liter cans which
use the same spout.  These are really cool as they fit exactly under the
rear westy bench, and I can travel with a spare gallon or so of diesel,
enough for another 30 miles.  I manged to get two of these and they are
like miniature NATO cans.

Alan Felder
Austin TX

On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 11:47 PM, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:

> I found an US military jerry can at the local metal scrapyard last week.
> alistair