The Blitz gasoline can - what went wrong - what needs to be fixed

On Fri, 24 May 2013 09:07:43 -1000, Geoff Welsh >
wrote:

wrote:
>>
>> DC is actually rather easy to drive in[*], ....
>>
>>[*] They have all of these big recognizable things that can be seen
>> from everywhere. ;-)
>
>assuming the driver has a four dimensional sense of the world around
>them. I know at least one person that positively cannot navigate other
>than by following "take the first left....then third right" type
>directions.
>
>I think the "recalculating....recalculating....." voice on the GPS units
>is their internal dialog on most days.
>
>GW

I drove around D.C., not stops, with my guns. Feral prison cats and
plants that is sure to freeze a sad death.

The trip was from Florida to the Adirondack mountains of Nu Yawk.

I never checked if plant importation to a state was a crime :-\

I got away with it, all accounts.

On Fri, 24 May 2013 09:07:43 -1000, Geoff Welsh >
wrote:

wrote:
>>
>> DC is actually rather easy to drive in[*], ....
>>
>>[*] They have all of these big recognizable things that can be seen
>> from everywhere. ;-)
>
>assuming the driver has a four dimensional sense of the world around
>them. I know at least one person that positively cannot navigate other
>than by following "take the first left....then third right" type
>directions.

Only two dimensions are needed. I see you know my wife. ;-)

>I think the "recalculating....recalculating....." voice on the GPS units
>is their internal dialog on most days.

It certainly was for my GPS unit. The other trick it loved was
telling you one thing and showing a completely different route on the
screen. Our cell phones are *much* better but tend to drop out at the
most inopportune times (and not in the middle of nowhere - amazingly).
I use my cell phone all the time.

On 05/24/2013 12:53 PM, wrote:
> On Thu, 23 May 2013 21:54:36 -0700, jim beam > wrote:
>
>> On 05/23/2013 09:15 PM, Harry K wrote:
>>> On May 23, 5:03?pm, wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 23 May 2013 10:40:56 -1000, Geoff Welsh >
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Harry K wrote:
>>>>>> On May 22, 10:33 am, Nate > ?wrote:
>>>>>>> On 05/22/2013 08:19 AM, wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Tue, 21 May 2013 21:22:52 -0400, Nate >
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On 05/21/2013 09:07 PM, wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> On Tue, 21 May 2013 17:14:32 -0500, > ?wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> On 5/21/2013 4:37 PM, Nate Nagel wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>> On 05/21/2013 02:28 PM, Oren wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Mon, 20 May 2013 13:05:35 -0400, "Steve W."
>>>>>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> My personal thought is that as long as you're not a
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> convicted violent
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> felon or a nut-case who is a danger to anyone you
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> shouldn't be
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> restricted from making or owning any type of firearm.
>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Who would of thunk Iowa allows child molesters to carry
>>>>>>>>>>>>> guns, it was
>>>>>>>>>>>>> recently reported I see.
>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I don't have a problem with background checks BUT the way
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> it should work
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> is simple. You fill out the form, they call it in, if it
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> comes back
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> clear you get to take your purchase and they shred the
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> form. The dealer
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> would record the serial numbers in/out BUT with no
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> names/addresses or
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> other info.
>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> We don't need no stinkin' forms or checks, or anything else.
>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Should also be that if you are in a state that issues
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> handgun permits
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that the permit is valid across the country and it
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> exempts you from
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> background check unless it is revoked.
>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> The National Reciprocity law proposed died with other guns
>>>>>>>>>>>>> measures,
>>>>>>>>>>>>> recently.
>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Now that is the obnoxious thing; apparently I'm considered
>>>>>>>>>>>> legally able to conceal a handgun in my own state, but there
>>>>>>>>>>>> are states in which there is *no* legal way for me to even
>>>>>>>>>>>> drive through with my own legally purchased handgun unless I
>>>>>>>>>>>> just pass straight through and don't stop (e.g. Maryland or
>>>>>>>>>>>> Massachusetts)
>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> sorry for the OT post but this actually does annoy the crap
>>>>>>>>>>>> out of me as I have good friends in both of the states I
>>>>>>>>>>>> mention above...
>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> nate
>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> It gets even worse.
>>>>>>>>>>> In DC for example you can now own a gun but you can't
>>>>>>>>>>> transport it, even unloaded and cased, except directly
>>>>>>>>>>> between your home and a gun range. If you see any defensible
>>>>>>>>>>> logic in that, you're a better man than I because I don't.
>>>>>>>>>>> Oh, there are no gun ranges within DC by the way.
>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> You *CAN* pass through DC, or any state, with a gun you're legally
>>>>>>>>>> allowed to posses.
>>>>
>>>>>>>>> True, but if you do more than stop for lunch or gas you can be
>>>>>>>>> technically in violation of the law.
>>>>
>>>>>>>> Wrong.
>>>>
>>>>>>> It's not me that's saying that, it's J. Scott Kappas, Esq. and I'm
>>>>>>> quoting from the 2013 edition of the "Traveler's Guide to the Firearm
>>>>>>> Laws of the Fifty States."
>>>>
>>>>>>> ? From the bottom of page 18:
>>>>
>>>>>>> Travelers to D.C. are prohibited from carrying any firearms into the
>>>>>>> District in a concealed or open manner. ?Any ammunition possession is
>>>>>>> also banned. ?D.C. law was recently modified to allow the transport of
>>>>>>> firearms and ammunition through the District. ?The firearms must be
>>>>>>> unloaded, cased, and locked in the trunk, or, in a vehicle without a
>>>>>>> trunk, secured in a locked container (other than a glove compartment or
>>>>>>> console box.) ?They mst also be separated from any extraneous
>>>>>>> ammunition. ?The traveler may not stop anywhere in the District of his
>>>>>>> "passing through" status will cease to exist and his firearms may be
>>>>>>> subject to seizure.
>>>>
>>>>>>> (end quote)
>>>>
>>>>>>> Also see here
>>>>
>>>>>>> http://www.handgunlaw.us/states/dc.pdf
>>>>
>>>>>>> Places Off
>>>>>>> -
>>>>>>> Limits Eve
>>>>>>> n With A Permit/License
>>>>>>> Note:
>>>>>>> If you stop in DC for any reason while transporting firearms you are no
>>>>>>> longer covered by Federal
>>>>>>> Law (
>>>>>>> Title 18 Part 1 Chapter 44
>>>>>>> ? 926A)
>>>>>>> but fall under DC law and can be arrested and your firearms
>>>>>>> Confiscated
>>>>
>>>>>>> (end quote)
>>>>
>>>>>>> the actual law is given on pages 5 and 6 of the link given above.
>>>>
>>>>>>> So apparently DC grudgingly recognizes McClure-Volkmer but does the
>>>>>>> absolute minimum to comply. ?The way I read the quote above, even
>>>>>>> stopping for gas may in the eyes of District authorities put one outside
>>>>>>> the protection of McClure-Volkmer.
>>>>
>>>>>>> nate
>>>>
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> replace "roosters" with "cox" to reply.http://members.cox.net/njnagel
>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks for that. ?I knew that in transporthing _through_ a state they
>>>>>> still have to comply with the laws governing _how_ they are to be
>>>>>> secured. ?I didn't nknow DC had that "gotcha" in there.
>>>>
>>>>>> Harry K
>>>>> Forgive my ignorance of local roadways and thouroughfares, but is not
>>>>> "DC" quite small and easily driven around rather than through?
>>>>
>>>> Sure, it's quite hard to actually drive through. ?One would have to be
>>>> nuts to even try.
>>>
>>> Amen to tht. The streets are laid out radially rather than gridded.
>>> Make a wrong choice of an exit from a 'roundy" and you wind up miles
>>> out of your way.
>>>
>>> Harry K
>>>
>>
>> word of advise: never go to europe - they have them all over the place.
>> they seem to manage, but it's actually a cunning plan to confuse
>> foreigners.
>
> DC is actually rather easy to drive in[*], if traffic is actually
> moving (rarely). The point is that all of the highways go around. You
> have to work to actually go through.
>
>[*] They have all of these big recognizable things that can be seen
> from everywhere. ;-)
>

You're also forgetting about the execrable roads (although at least 295
isn't the blatant hazard that it was 10 years ago - back then I would
never have attempted it in a car without at least 50 series tires and
4-5" of ground clearance) constant construction and cameras everywhere...

I do have to say that other than the cameras I do detect improvements in
the roads. When I first moved to this area if you wandered outside the
touristy areas you felt like you were taking years off the life of your
car's suspension every trip. Even PA Ave. through Anacostia isn't too
horrible today.

nate

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replace "roosters" with "cox" to reply.
http://members.cox.net/njnagel

wrote:
> On Fri, 24 May 2013 09:07:43 -1000, Geoff >
> wrote:
>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> DC is actually rather easy to drive in[*], ....
>>>
>>>[*] They have all of these big recognizable things that can be seen
>>> from everywhere. ;-)
>>
>> assuming the driver has a four dimensional sense of the world around
>> them. I know at least one person that positively cannot navigate other
>> than by following "take the first left....then third right" type
>> directions.
>
> Only two dimensions are needed. I see you know my wife. ;-)
>

rotflmao

GW

On Tuesday, May 14, 2013 3:15:17 PM UTC-5, Danny D wrote:
> On Tue, 14 May 2013 12:33:51 -0700, bob haller wrote:
>
>
>
> > Some of my 5 gallon plastic gas cans happen to be the same size and
>
> > threads of a briggs & stratton lawnmower engine. I swapped them by
>
> > accident and the sealed cap killed the engine pretty quick.
>
>
>
> Bad news on Blitz.
>
>
>
> I called the Plastics Group at 630-325-1210 x295
>
> http://www.theplasticsgroup.net/contact-us.php
>
>
>
> That extension was invalid, but I spoke to a representative who
>
> said *nobody* bought the molds that Blitz used on their gas cans.
>
>
>
> The lady (I forgot to get her name) said that all the molds could
>
> be different but they themselves might re-use their own molds for
>
> their Briggs & Stratton engines (she wasn't sure). So that would
>
> explain how a Briggs & Stratton engine can use the same cap threads
>
> as a gas can from The Plastics Group.
>
>
>
> Regarding the Blitz manufacturing operation, the lady said nobody
>
> bought the molds because then they'd be subject to the lawsuits;
>
> so, in the end, it looks like there is no way to get a *direct*
>
> replacement cap.
>
>
>
> The only option left is to see if someone else's threads *fit*
>
> the Blitz gasoline cans. That's going to be left to trial & error.

Google,,, Jerry Cans and check out the Youtube video that is posted there.

replying to HeyBub , Hawkeye wrote:
> heybub wrote:
>
> Really, really liked the hint of obtaining gas can vent caps via Ebay !
> Cheap (1 for $3.00, 5 for $7.75, 10 for $11.20, 15 for $11.98, etc. ),
> trivial to install (1/2" bit is all you need), and quite functional.



I'm trying this one:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/5-EGS-Yellow...em3cdf8b 8606

It's supposed to work with these Blitz. For $4.50 I'm trying it

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