Scott Brady
Founder
This is important news for Overlanders.
Starting in January, fuel can manufacturers will no longer be able to sell new fuel cans in the US (nationwide) without complicated and failure-prone child safety locks on them. We have seen the affects of even the CARB compliant fillers, which are marginal at best.
Fortunately, the ban does not affect legacy cans, manufactured through the end of 2008. All cans have a manufacture date. My experience has been that the Wedco and Scepter cans are the most robust and effective. So, I would highly recommend that people buy a few cans to have for future builds, etc., before eBay starts to price gouge everything.
For the Wedco, there are CARB compliant and standard cans.
Those of you in CA (and a few other states) will need these cans
For those of us fortunate enough to live in wild-west states like Colorado, Arizona, Nevada, etc., we can get the traditional cans, with HD clamping cap. These are the same as used by NATO, etc.
From what I can see, Scepter can availability is extremely limited, as they stopped selling to the US distributors in the first part of 08.
I just talked to Ho at Expedition Exchange, and they have a big inventory of the red Wedco cans in stock, both CARB and non-carb versions.
I like the idea of having a few fuel cans in the garage, topped off with gas, especially at $1.50 a gallon they are right now.
Here is the Wedco can page on EE.
Starting in January, fuel can manufacturers will no longer be able to sell new fuel cans in the US (nationwide) without complicated and failure-prone child safety locks on them. We have seen the affects of even the CARB compliant fillers, which are marginal at best.
Fortunately, the ban does not affect legacy cans, manufactured through the end of 2008. All cans have a manufacture date. My experience has been that the Wedco and Scepter cans are the most robust and effective. So, I would highly recommend that people buy a few cans to have for future builds, etc., before eBay starts to price gouge everything.
For the Wedco, there are CARB compliant and standard cans.
Those of you in CA (and a few other states) will need these cans
For those of us fortunate enough to live in wild-west states like Colorado, Arizona, Nevada, etc., we can get the traditional cans, with HD clamping cap. These are the same as used by NATO, etc.
From what I can see, Scepter can availability is extremely limited, as they stopped selling to the US distributors in the first part of 08.
I just talked to Ho at Expedition Exchange, and they have a big inventory of the red Wedco cans in stock, both CARB and non-carb versions.
I like the idea of having a few fuel cans in the garage, topped off with gas, especially at $1.50 a gallon they are right now.
Here is the Wedco can page on EE.