WKTH DED -- speaking of jerry cans, are you on this list?

I saw four nice looking cans (10 gal each?) on the back of your van
today, next to the spare tire, and wondered what you carry.  What
about that roof rack and the roof box -- do they work well?  Does the
van roll around more, left to right, if you add too much weight up
high?  NICE setup.

Gabby

On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 10:16 PM, Alan Felder <dieseldoofus@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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