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Bought one of these several weeks ago.
Yesterday, I went to re-fill it. I filled it to the 2.5 gal. line and screwed the cap back on it tightly. Placed it on the passenger-side floor board of my pick-up.
After a short period, I began to smell some gas odor. I just wrote it off as residual fumes from filling it up. On the way home, the fumes got worse. Sure as ****, the damn thing was either weeping or seeping gas from around the cap.
I had to pull over and off the road to wipe it down with some napkins. Gas got on my floor mat and I think a bit into the carpet. Wiped the cap off as well and tried to tighten it further. It was tight as it would go.
It amazes me that we can place men on the moon (allegedly) and we can send satellites deep into space taking pictures and sending them back. We can send remote-controlled submersibles to the deepest parts of the seas, but we can't yet make a gas container that is leak-proof.
Once home, I removed the cap and gave it a good looking at. Nothing is damaged, no parts are missing, and it was indeed, screwed down tightly.
If at one time I was impressed by the quality off this container, I no longer am.
Maybe........if it had been made in China............
Yesterday, I went to re-fill it. I filled it to the 2.5 gal. line and screwed the cap back on it tightly. Placed it on the passenger-side floor board of my pick-up.
After a short period, I began to smell some gas odor. I just wrote it off as residual fumes from filling it up. On the way home, the fumes got worse. Sure as ****, the damn thing was either weeping or seeping gas from around the cap.
I had to pull over and off the road to wipe it down with some napkins. Gas got on my floor mat and I think a bit into the carpet. Wiped the cap off as well and tried to tighten it further. It was tight as it would go.
It amazes me that we can place men on the moon (allegedly) and we can send satellites deep into space taking pictures and sending them back. We can send remote-controlled submersibles to the deepest parts of the seas, but we can't yet make a gas container that is leak-proof.
Once home, I removed the cap and gave it a good looking at. Nothing is damaged, no parts are missing, and it was indeed, screwed down tightly.
If at one time I was impressed by the quality off this container, I no longer am.
Maybe........if it had been made in China............