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Fule storage - 6/9/2008 10:40:20 PM   
Walther


 

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Status: offline 		Could you tell me where I can buy empty quart cans to store fuel in?

Tom.
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RE: Fule storage - 6/9/2008 10:45:38 PM   
pe reivers



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Status: offline 		The small metal cans for nitro or Cox fuel are excellent.

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RE: Fule storage - 6/9/2008 11:42:43 PM   
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Status: offline 		Tom, if you know anyone who has a 1960's American V8 automobile some use a lead substitute that they purchase at auto parts store in 16 ounce metal cans with metal lids. I have a couple of these empty cans I use for diesel fuel for model engines. I label the cans with the fuel. Not a quart but 16 ounces and free if you know someone who uses this product in their old muscle cars. Jack

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RE: Fule storage - 6/10/2008 2:22:06 AM   
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Status: offline 		If you know anybody who refinishes furniture as a hobby you can probably snag some empty screw top cans from liquid stripper products, thinners, and oil finishes in pint and quart sizes. As I've posted elsewhere, it would be a good idea to put a coat of enamel on the cans so nobody will mistake them for the original product. I also replace the cardboard seal in the cap with thin gasket cork.

< Message edited by lildiesel -- 6/10/2008 2:23:48 AM >

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RE: Fule storage - 6/10/2008 7:04:41 PM   
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Status: offline 		If you paint your models with dope, quart size screw-cap thinner cans are usually emptied fairly often. I wouldn't use a can that had held anything that could dry hard on its interior.

Another possibility: check with a paint store to see if you might connect with customers who buy solvents in screw-cap quart paint cans. They probably go through the contents quicker than we go through dope thinner.

I don't often even think of using smaller cans, as sealing the cap threads with plumbers' teflon tape holds well for a long time. To go with this, the vent and fill tubes are soldered through the cap, and sealed with a U of neoprene tubing. The only time the can is open or vented is when you pull the vent line off to fill the syringe, bulb or squeeze bottle for filling the model's tank. ...Or, of course, when you refill it.

(Oh, and DO pull the vent line off its tube first. If you pull the fill tube first, you may see a stream of diesel fuel doing your flying, clothing and nearby plant life no good at all.)

I generally stamp a V for vent in the cap top - back up the cap over a dowel end, and strike a small screwdriver twice so the blade forms the V. Another way would be to lash the fill end of the neoprene U to the fill tube so it is obvious that one doesn't come off unless you really mean it to.

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RE: Fule storage - 6/11/2008 12:24:16 AM   
Walther


 

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Status: offline 		Lou,

This is what I did, I put the two tubes in the cap with one having the pickup at the bottom and one vent; Then I screwed it on and sealed it with hot melt glue.

I do not plan on opening it and when it is gone I will get a new can anyway.

Not sure what the rest think but you can sure let me know.

Tom.

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RE: Fule storage - 6/11/2008 4:32:02 PM   
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Status: offline 		I did a cap as described and couldn't stop it leaking, so I moved the tubes to the top of the can.

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RE: Fule storage - 8/10/2008 5:21:17 AM   
portablevcb


 

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Status: offline 		What about the aluminum fuel cans used by backpackers. Add a neoprene 'washer' and it seems like a good solution.

charlie

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RE: Fule storage - 8/18/2008 6:30:19 PM   
ddd


 

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Status: offline 		For years we have been telling our customers to get a one quart oil bottle and take that to the field and keep the gallon can at home.

P.S. John Deere is pure 100% ether and the propellent is 20% and is easily vent when the can is inverted.

Bob Davis
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