SpinnerRow

There seems to be a bunch more newbies coming on board with the introduction of the JBA 15G and DLE 20 small gas engines - me included. I wanted a cheap 1 gallon gas can for use at the field and most of the ones I saw were 2 or more gallons and expensive. Well I made myself an inexpensive one and thought I would share.

It starts out with a cheap $7 1 gallon can from Lowes, a Briggs and Stratton gas cap from Lowes, some brass tubing, a gas rubber stopper, tygon fuel line, fuel filter, some super sticky double sided tape, some left over parts from some glow fuel tanks and your choice in a manual or electric fuel pump.

***NOTE*** The large brass tubing is 5/32 and not 3/32 as indicated in the attachments.

Tired Old Man

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Nice post.

SpinnerRow

Meant to upload this annotated pic.

airborne2.4

Where did you get the super sticky double sided tape?

captinjohn

That is about what I did for a gas can with crank pump. I used bulkhead fittings I had...to eliminate the gas stopper. Super simple too. Capt,n

SkyPilot101

Good Info on the Brigs cap fit's the Blitz gal. can! Thanks!!

captinjohn

I forgot to say...if you use bulk-head fittings....put them in through next to the cap and not in the cap.That makesputting fuel in is much more easy!. Capt,n

SpinnerRow

Lowes and I've bought some from WalMart as well.

Wingman26

The cap is the big problem, now they have switched to those awful safety things its just ridiculous. I had made a cap from an old cap, but now its split, so I'm going to Lowes and get one of those B&S gas caps!

airborne2.4

Found it at Amazon

Rcpilot

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Great info on the B&S cap fitting the Blitz can.

Now y'all watch - there's gonna be a run on B&S gas caps at Lowes and they'll be out of stock for the next 4 months. [sm=lol.gif]

Great write up. Thanks for taking the time.

SpinnerRow

Yea, that's why I bought three.

litterbug

I'm more of a Home Depot guy, but had to go to Lowes to get that B&S cap.  Thanks for the info. Without it I would still be having issues.

w8ye

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I went to Lowes today and after looking and looking I found two of the B &S caps and they were the only caps the store had..

But the cap is not pefect as it has the image of a gas pump and hose on the outer surface in the middle and on the inside there is a cup shape. The outer surface is also sunken so there is not a square surface for mounting individual bulk head fittings.

Probably the best way to use it is with the Dubro gas cap assembly as shown in the first post?

Or you could put it in a milling machine and face off the top in the center and the cup on the inside?

The caps fit the threads on the Blitz cans perfect.

Nitro-Tom

what happened to the pic's?


They are all red X's

SpinnerRow

I guess they got deleted some how.

I've used mine all last year. The double sided tape didn't last long on the pump but that was OK as it was a bit awkward to use that way.

Oh, and the brass tubing is 5/32 and not 3/32 as shown in the pics.

captinjohn

They are saving bandwith....................... Ha!

TimBle

I took a drive to our lab and asked for 2 x metal fuel sample cans.
I use one can for the run in mix (Mineral)  and the other for running mix (synthetic)

av8tor1977

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I like Captain John's idea of putting the bulkhead fittings in the fuel can itself instead of in the cap. It really would make for easier re-filling of the can. Why didn't I think of that??

AV8TOR

MetallicaJunkie

i used a powermaster glow fuel can... and some leftover rustoleum "saftey red" and dubro fittings.. works ok for me... I made it just for my DLE 20 [8D] my bigger gassers would gulp that up in a couple of good flying days

fireman7875

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Captin, I was wondering if you could post a picture of your bulkhead fittings and tell me where you got it. I would like to be able to to make a new can myself and something like that would help a lot. I have done it through the cap and agree that refilling is easier if the cap does not contain the fuel lines.

Thanks,
Brian

MetallicaJunkie

these are good BH fittings http://www.aircraftinternational.com...8/Default.aspx

as are these http://www.centralhobbies.com/Fuel/fittings.htm they are a hair on the small size, and prefer to use the smallest zip ties to be on the safe side when using them on 1/8" i.d. gas line

a1pcfixer

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http://www.centralhobbies.com/Fuel/fittings.htm

captinjohn

I think I got the bulkhead fittings with the hand crank pump I bought. But then again I may have got them from a weed eater or some small power product. I bet you can buy them at a good small engine repair shop.Also Dubro may have them. I do not have a photo in my photo bank right now....but will add one sometime. Capt,n

fireman7875

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Thanks for the info, guys.

Brian