Blowing Up the Longhouse
— Dr_Insensitive_Jerk (@DrInsensitive) November 1, 2024
By law, this heater is equipped with a thermal switch that shuts off the gas if the flame goes out. It is marketed as a safety feature, but it is something else entirely.
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This is just a simple example of the even more extreme long-housing of small engine plastic gasoline containers.
It is damned nigh impossible to get modern gas containers to drain successfully using the built-in no-flow spout.
I say no-flow because that is clearly the priority here.
The solution is to buy a normal spout off Amazon, intended (I presume) for five gallon water jugs.
Or buy the D-cell battery operated siphon that pumps gas very efficiently out of your gas container with the idiotic spout/plug removed.
That siphon pumps a lot of gas very fast. So what is gained by the unusable spout? I suppose it prevents spillage should the container fall off a shelf. Gee, but I can remember the days when one did that with a spout that had a screw-on plug. Of course in those days the container was metal.
That’s why my primary lawnmower gasoline container is a 1950’s USMC Jerry Can.