welcome back to steve rob reviews today i'm going to review how i actually designed my own gas can
nozzle uh just a nice little short spout it's about 10 inches long and you know it's going
to make it a lot easier for me because you just can't buy gas can nozzles so easily
that aren't made real cheesy so i'm going to show you over here on the bench
i'm going to show you how i did it and this is all using pex plumbing plastic pex plumbing
fittings and pex pipe or otherwise known as shark bite fittings so so let's see how you
put this together well let's start off right here this is enough just to make one complete
nozzle itself so you got these two pecs rings you got this right here and
you got the cap and you need one of these and that's going to be it right there
so let's go over to this side this is for another set the only thing i'm using is this jb weld
plastic bonder awesome stuff just two piece epoxy you mix it together and it does a great job so
what am i building i'm building one of these now i just can't go to my store and buy these anymore
plus you could tell look how cheesy this is right and this is for my gasoline and diesel containers
and you can see how this is made here and you see that little ring well that little ring
is this ring right here and it's going to go on there i'll show you how that goes
so this is the purpose of the whole video is to make yourself one of these and it's got a nice
little cap on the end as well now what is the problem with the gas cans today because this
is a weed coal they don't make wheat goes anymore they're out of business now we've got this scepter
so this is it right here so when you take this out you got this thing and guess what
if you've got gasoline or diesel in there it's dripping all over the place already right
so i'm going to show you on the bench how you use this here to match up how to make
one of these so i'll show you right now so the first thing you have to do is now they don't
make these anymore but what you have to do is you have to take this ring off you can see i've taken
this one off already and put it over here and i went with stainless steel washers now the washer
that i found worked great for this one you see it matches exactly and it matches the width as well
i went with stainless steel washer because well it matches the same width and it doesn't rust
now this is a one and a half inch outside diameter with a 5 8 inside so
you see how this matches perfectly right here so now all i have to do is
put this on here actually it will be on this one here on the finished piece i'm going to show you
how i did this finished piece but you could see like there is a difference between the diameter
of the old one and the new one so if you take for instance if you want to make a one for an older
weed co or whatever size you have you just match it up so i mean this ring just comes off like this
and you just match your washer to fit the exact same as this one now this one here is pretty close
but it's not quite there so in this particular situation here i'd have to go with a little
bigger washer or see if this one here would actually fit which i haven't tried
but this one here fits perfectly and this is the scepter gas tank nozzle so fits nice right okay
so let's go over here and i'll show you how this was all designed okay this piece right here if
we take a good look at it there you can see how it's been modified i'll show you how i did that
and all i did really was i took the fitting which is the three quarter inch shark bite
i put lots of the epoxy on the back side put it in here like this now you see it's not going to
sit flush like this so you just got to cut off the two ears on the one side
and then epoxy on the bottom side so when you get to this piece right here if i could just give you
a close-up there you could see you see how i just i just used my uh abrasive disc and cut
it off and you see how much i epoxied it on there i just sanded it off and you see these two slots
well that's when you got your gas tank nozzle all the way to the bottom you're not gonna have
a bunch of gas sitting here so all i use is my chainsaw file just to file a couple of slots so
when you tip up the gas can well it gets all the gas out right okay so there we go right there so
now this pipe this pipe come in a five foot section for five bucks so you could make six
ten inch nozzles this fitting was two dollars two dollars the washer was two dollars this piece
here was two dollars so you could make this whole thing and the rings are cheap if you got the rings
uh for about 10 bucks now if you go shopping around for these things they're pretty cheesy
and yeah they're around ten dollars too and i think this is far superior using this pipe
and uh let's get to it and i'll show you how this is put together first of all you put the rings on
now if i just get this ring on here there we go and you put this piece on the end here
slide the ring all the way to the end like this
now this is an automatic stop for it so you can't make a mistake put this ring on here
and as you can see this here is going to go in here
slide the ring on there you go now we have to put this
rubber washer on and it just kind of slides over here and you can buy these as well online
you know the replacement rubbers like these gasket seals
there you go just like that now that wasn't too hard to do here's the cap fits on here like this
and all i have to do now is crimp it so let's take a look and see how that works because you
can see this here like this so it just goes this end here this end here and now i'll have to do
is crimp it so let's let's show you how that's done so just move this stuff out of the way
and you just put it in your crimper line it up let me just get it all up in the side here
and
there's one crimp
put the other one in here line it up
oh better get it straight now
and that's it right there crimped right on so how does this fit on
there there we go so there it is right there and you can see how that seals in there like this
and i'll take my gas can
and that is it right there so let's take a look and see how that looks
so there it is right there now from here to here is a little bit longer than 10 inches
but uh that's the length that i wanted it's nice and sturdy it's firm and
you know you can really crank it down and it doesn't leak so this is a great
alternative for ten dollars if you have the plumbing supplies and all that kind of stuff
and it is far superior than one of these that you have to pull out all the time thread back in and
you know you just can't leave this open you know so i mean i see a lot of people just running rags
over top of it but you know what that's not the right way to do it and if you take at the end here
yeah the diameter of this on the end is identical to the diameter on the end of
this and this is a nice little cap on the end here and you could see there you go right there
i think this is a great idea well you let me know what you think
now i built uh this is my third one now so i got enough to build one more
and i think it is a pretty good idea and the only thing you have to remember with this pex pipe
is uh you can't leave this out to the to the sunlight so if you just spray this outside
the whole outside piece here just some regular rattle can spray black or whatever color you want
it just protects it from the uv light this is only supposed to be outside for uv light for 30 days
so if you just take some cheap you know can of spray paint and just just spray the plastic on
the outside here well that protects it from the uv rays but uh i think that is
a terrific thing for like under 10 bucks you can't go wrong and this is a lot better than
well anything you can buy off of the internet right
this nice cap here on the end i just got that in the uh i bought everything here off of home depot
and uh the cap on the end here is from the next aisle over from the plumbing where it's uh all
the fittings for water sprinklers and that kind of stuff and this is all national pipe thread and
you know i think this is just ideal you know it's got a nice cap on the end and it's not
like a cheesy there's nothing like cheesy plastic stuff and what i found a lot of times
with these units here is in between the ribs there they crack because of course
you know you're kind of leaning on it a bit sometimes and in between the ribs they crack
and then what do you do you got to throw it out so these guys let me know what you think
and uh thanks for joining me here today if you haven't seen this channel before you're welcome to
subscribe come back again and see some interesting i think this is a little bit of a hack eh
or an invention something like that i like it let me know what you think cheers