i hear yer old lady uses pig tailed butt plugs.

The fuel can must have been designed by a lawyer. I see your diesel has the color indicating no tax. Obviously this thwarts the safety features but they were dramatically overkill.

What the EPA and the manufacturers don't seem to realize is this: The harder you make it for the user to deal with hazardous liquids, the greater the danger

Good video. The only nozzle that ever worked for me (and still does, after 10 years) reliably was the "enviro-flow" nozzle, after modifications. Of course, the EPA, in its usual wisdom, had it banned! Idiots.

Genius pure genius!

You might mention that the Midwest brand of fuel can is the very best USA-made fuel cans out there!

I really appreciate how you actually went through the process to show how to fix the mechanism so it actually works -- although the sarcasm of "just get yourself one of these now-illegal nozzles" is funny, real information (like yours) is much more helpful!

great information if people would just take the plug handle cord plug in all the way it would be protected do you agree.and use the handle to pull it out

Spend a little more and buy the NO-SPILL push button can.

How about switching the breaker off on the circuit you are working on? It seems like a common-sense safety precaution, no matter how it's wired.

Hours... it took me hours of monkeying to try and figure this out. I have knob and tube wiring and we were redoing the basement with a 3 way switch for the lighting. It was a good thing that i labeled each wire and the original switches. I identified neutral and hot and wired it like it should be. I then went to the other switch and what i had initially thought was hot and neutral were reversed. After hours of trying to get it wired i put the old switches back in... got the circuit to work like it used to and then replaced them with new dimable switches and wired them the same way the old switches were wired. Thankfully i wont have to worry much about the hot light when it is off because the wires are all in a junction box with a low voltage transformer which powers the lowvoltage LED puck lights.

Yikes. I encountered ways that switched the neutral, but not one of these crazy circuits.

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Good and adequate tips for safety concerns (gloves/safety glasses) as it’s sometimes overlooked. The equipment used to clean the terminals (battery cleaner bristle and metal toothbrush) was also an effective cleaning tool but not sure why a Brake cleaner was used … CRC makes a battery cleaner solution so I would use that instead but comments here includes baking soda, Coca Cola and water (hot) that are also good alternatives to clean the terminals. Thanks for the video.

This channel would be for all you do it yourselfers and novice in the electrical world. It's a good honest trade. As for me I'm a medium voltage Terminator I deal with 1/0 to 1000 EPR PVC JACKETED CABLE. 37 YEARS ⚡⚡⚡

Nothing beats a jeep can

Im going to modify mine thanks

They are Definely hard to use

I just took off the spout and used a funnel but modifying the spout like this is a great idea

Thanks for the tip 👍 I have one can like this hate it.

Everyone should've learned this in 10th grade Electricity 1 class in highschool.

Do I need to say duh!!! With lighting going to LED as a standard this simply makes sense.

Is there any way to contact you directly

Why do Americans call a 2-way switch a 3-way? Do they call a single switch installation 2-way?

I'm a country boy. I still use a milk carton and funnel

Finally, an answer to why I always got zapped as a little kid, visiting my grandparent's 1940s vintage home in south suburban Chicagoland. Usually happened when getting out of the bath and flipping the switch with a wet hand. I bought a house in 2011 and had a lighting circuit that was wired Chicago style. Had it fixed immediately. Frankly, I'm surprised the inspector passed it but I live in AZ where building and zoning regulations are just a serving suggestion.

Awesome

eBay has the normal nozzles and fittings for the vent.

Just buy gas cans from Canada

You did a pour job there! Good vid. 😉

I had to deal with one of those damn things today. Thanks for telling me how to defeat it.

I've always installed outlets with the ground down. That way when a person is plugging in a device with a transformer and the outlet is polarized, said transformer is plugged in an hanging down, towards the floor, and not up towards the ceiling.

In Puerto Rico, we install them sidwways.

I'd love opinions on this -- can ANYONE explain why the simplest solution to the vapor venting problem was not implemented by a simple spring-loaded vent valve where the vent would open INWARD to permit venting when pouring the gas, but would pull SHUT when the gas was not being poured? In this manner, the pour spout would remain as it always was, and the spillage problem that's inherent in ALL these newfangled contraptions would have been avoided. It's CLEAR to me that such a solution must have been considered, since it's so obvious, but I've never seen one installed. What am I missing?

I tried many until I found the metal galvanized cans in yard sales. I fixed mine in ONE step I threw them away.

I've always done dead end 3 ways by sending the line to switch 2 and using the common on switch 1 for the switch leg.

I was always told this was a "California 3-way" and all the literature I read in school also refered to it as such. Also, I have heard it called a neutral switched 3-way. Good demo to explain how it actually works! Ive never thought about it ive always just fixed them or rewired them when i see them.

Always show the correct/safe wiring first in order to give a baseline reference to the student. You don’t want the student to have the Chicago method is the reference method.

I never even thought of putting a real vent on there. I just drilled a hole and covered it with a piece of Gorilla tape.

You need to suck up the spit in your mouth before you speak. You are very juicy sounding

Excellent video ! I have 5 of these cans, and they are a pain to use, especially filling my truck ! I'm going to make these changes now. Thanks for the great tip !! We hit the LIKE button and subscribe. 👍👍👍

Love this!!! Thank you.

Well, done, my friend!

The worst offenders are the w/r gfci outlets... I have never replaced so many NEW gfci outlets installed within 2 yrs in my career ,thinking of wiring for gfci breakers in the future, moisture and electronics never last .. feels like a money grab from manufactures.

Make America's Gas Cans Great Again. MAGCGA. Bring this up on the Presidential campaign, and you will get more votes.

When I first began in the early 80's I had to remove tube & wire from an old house & was amazed at the absurdity of how that place was wired- it seemed like there should have been way more fires from that type of system & yet it wasn't so bad that an impetus was generated to ban that stuff outright... CODE upgraded eventually so that you could not install that system any longer but did not require people to remove it unless/until there was an upgrade... there are still millions of homes across the USA that have that wire still functioning today... scary stuff!

Why do none of these sites that say, "I'll put the information in the link down below " never put the actuql link down below? I was hoping for the link where to buy the vent caps!

Thanks for this. My old house in California had some confusing 3-way that I could never quite figure out. I suspect it was this. It was also connected with fabric-sheathed wire and I ended up disconnecting it and pulling modern wire (14/3 NM) to replace it all. More work in the end but probably the right move in the long run.

Thanks! 👍I bought the exact same fuel container, and I hate it. Best I guess is have been lawsuits much like people who use ladders in the middle of a storm and sue that ladder company because of an accident.

outstanding!