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PostPosted: 13:13 - 19 Sep 2011    Post subject: Cheap/easy/small ways to store fuel. Reply with quote

No jerry cans available here, certainly not small ones.

Had been carrying a spare litre of fuel in a glass vodka bottle, but I just realised in a crash that may go stunningly wrong.

Only needs to hold a litre. Any ideas? Got to be very water tight obviously.

Do I just run round looking for anything HDPE? Google is being a smarmy fucker and not helping.
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PostPosted: 13:16 - 19 Sep 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote

Drink it, then piss in the petrol tank as and when required.

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PostPosted: 13:19 - 19 Sep 2011    Post subject: Re: Cheap/easy/small ways to store fuel. Reply with quote

Bonny wrote:
No jerry cans available here, certainly not small ones.

Had been carrying a spare litre of fuel in a glass vodka bottle, but I just realised in a crash that may go stunningly wrong.

Only needs to hold a litre. Any ideas? Got to be very water tight obviously.

Do I just run round looking for anything HDPE? Google is being a smarmy fucker and not helping.


They don't have the plastic milk bottles? Those are HDPE, or at least they can withstand 5M NaOH and various other solvent abuses for long periods of time, I assure you, so should be able to deal with some petrol.

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PostPosted: 13:26 - 19 Sep 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote

Many places sell aluminium screw top water/ drinks containers eg for hiking, camping etc. I use these to store solvents such as paint thinners etc and never had any problem. Ideally you want an UNLINED bottle - some (most) have an epoxy lining which potentially could leach some chemical into the petrol you intend to carry. The solvents I have stored do not seem to have affected the liner on my bottles. You can get some such bottles in stainless steel but that is OTT

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PostPosted: 13:27 - 19 Sep 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi

Oil bottle?

Vodka bottle full of petrol looks rather too much like a petrol bomb.

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PostPosted: 13:37 - 19 Sep 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sigg fuel bottle?
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PostPosted: 13:41 - 19 Sep 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote

Kickstart wrote:


Vodka bottle full of petrol looks rather too much like a petrol bomb.


The thought had occurred.

But thats how they sell petrol in areas away from petrol stations. A big rack full of empty whiskey bottles full of petrol. Yet the buggers never use them in riots... bizarre.

Milk bottle could work, but I'd have to find a supermarket now. Plus I don't trust the lids on those, it will need to take being under a strap. They tend to go pop. Although I could coccoon it in electrical/duck tape.

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PostPosted: 13:45 - 19 Sep 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote

Oil bottle would be my choice, fairly tough sort of thing. Mount/pack it upright near the back of the bike on the side opposite the exhaust.
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PostPosted: 13:45 - 19 Sep 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote

Coke bottle would work if its not long term.
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