Fuel Question... Why the metal cans?

[Anthony Romano]

A local hobby shop owner told me he was limited by the local fire marshal in 
how much fuel he could keep in the store. Anyone know any easy, 
inconspicuous way to check this for a residence?

Anthony


>From: "Atwood, Mark" <atwoodm at paragon-inc.com>
>Reply-To: discussion at nsrca.org
>To: <discussion at nsrca.org>
>Subject: RE: Fuel Question... Why the metal cans?
>Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2003 21:50:52 -0400
>
>Shipping in quarts will allow you to ship UPS without the $5/gal haz-mat 
>fee.  Most of the time though the fuel is shipped by motor freight, which 
>has similar regs, but different fees.  If you're shipping more than 
>#200lbs, (roughly 40gal), it's much cheaper to go freight.
>
>Non of these were PowerMasters motivation though...it was simply the fire 
>code issues.  They spent considerable money revamping their assemblys to 
>fit the cans from the jugs.  All cost they would have preferred to skip.  
>The benefits of size and packing just made the move more palatible.
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From:	T&C Brown [mailto:tncbrown at charter.net]
>Sent:	Sun 7/6/2003 10:34 PM
>To:	discussion at nsrca.org
>Cc:
>Subject:	Re: Fuel Question... Why the metal cans?
>
>I believe Red Max shipped fuel in quarts is because of the Haz-mat dilemma. 
>  But I could be mistaken.  Also, at one time, Power Master was doing it as 
>well.
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: RUDDERCABL at aol.com
>   To: discussion at nsrca.org
>   Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2003 8:06 PM
>   Subject: Re: Fuel Question... Why the metal cans?
>
>
>   In a message dated 7/6/2003 5:30:46 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
>ArestiPattern at aol.com writes:
>
>
>     Added benefit to cans........UV protection, and Powermaster ships 6 
>gallons to a case instead of 4 of the plastic bottles.
>
>
>
>
>      I believe that you have hit on one of the real reasons why the can . 
>Becouse of the shape of the cans , more fuel can be shipped in the same 
>size or slightly larger box. Much money is saved on shipping one box 
>instead of two and the manufactor sells more fuel to the case.  Red Max was 
>doing the same thing using quart size bottles and shipping five gallons to 
>the case .
>
>      Over the last few years , myself and a couple of other flyers have 
>been buying fuel by the drum . We tap the drum and pour all the fuel off 
>into jugs at one time . Never had any problems with the fuel in four years 
>of doing this .
>
>   Robert Gainey
>
>
>
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