From: greg marks (youdog99@msn.com)
Date: Mon Jan 12 2004 - 19:54:35 PST
Someone on the list definitely has(had) the gaskets. I had a similar post a
year or so ago. Someone replied and I got 3 or 4 of them. I'll see if I
can find the reply but its been a while..
Greg
>From: Lee Knoper <saztac4i@yahoo.com>
>To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
>Subject: [MV] Jerry Can Gasket and Pour Spouts (NATO)
>Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 17:21:07 -0800 (PST)
>
>[Was: Re: [MV] Jerry Can Gasket for the Lid Part Number needed]
>
>On Fri, 9 Jan 2004 20:03:04 -0000, "noel shelley"
><noel@shelley1722.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > Get yourself some nitrile rubber sheet and cut them out .
>
>Having dealt with the vagaries of aftermarket gaskets for quite a few
>years now, I had pretty much resigned myself to doing just that.
>
>I carry reserve fuel in 5 gal jerry cans for multiple vehicles and
>routinely rotate it. None of the aftermarket jerry can gaskets that
>I've tried work well with diesel fuel. They're made of rubber that is
>marginally adequate; they soften and swell. Once the jerry can's bung
>plug is removed, the gasket often is too sloppy to properly reseal.
>They sort of return to normal after airing out overnight, but as a
>precaution I keep some floater gaskets on hand for fuel transfers.
>
>However, the concern has become slightly more pressing because of an
>apparent consumer market transition to NATO style openings and spouts.
>I don't know the exact stimulus - whether it's in the public or
>private sector - but this past summer I noticed that Checker Auto
>stopped selling jerry cans with the old ~2-1/4" bung that has been
>with us since at least WWII. Now they sell only the NATO style can
>and pour spout. (AutoZone and Pep Boys still sell the old style.)
>
>It was probably just as well. Locally, supplies of full size pour
>spouts (the only kind worth having, I'll venture) - in either threaded
>or quick disconnect varieties - had pretty much dried up.
>
>Rightly or not, I took this discovery as a signal to change my
>personal stock on an attrition basis, and already have acquired
>several used NATO surplus cans from other sources.
>
>The downside is that I haven't yet spotted any sources of replacement
>gaskets for these NATO jerry cans. Similarly, the "unleaded" type of
>aftermarket pour spout is the only one I have yet seen. They're all
>Pac Rim imports, and quality of construction varies wildly. (Don't
>stick your finger in the larger end to clear an apparent obstruction -
>it's probably an untrimmed piece of the spiral stem. Simultaneously
>you'll get a vicious laceration and face a "fishhook extraction"
>situation. No, I didn't do it myself.)
>
>In terms of fuel transfer flow rate the Pac Rim pour spouts are next
>to worthless, because they do not adequately vent the jerry can as it
>is being emptied. Transfers take =forever=.
>
>Unless someone knows of a source of more suitable NATO pour spouts, I
>may have to sacrifice a Pac Rim version in some homespun R & D efforts
>to arrive at an improved version.
>
>Lee_K
>
>
>
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