Gas cans on back door?

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Re: Gas cans on back door? [Re: mxmikie] #1044448 04/01/12 05:08 PM

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There are 7.49gal in a cubic foot, at about 8.2lb/gal for water. 5gal is about 2/3cuft. Gasoline is just over 6lb/gal, roughly .75 the weight of the same vol of water. Heck, even heavy bunker oil floats on water.

A full 5gal jerrycan is thus about 30 pounds plus can weight.

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Subject	Posted By	Posted
Gas cans on back door?	geocrasher	03/27/12 04:05 AM
Re: Gas cans on back door?	mxmikie	03/27/12 04:35 AM
Re: Gas cans on back door?	Pete_D	03/31/12 08:43 AM
Re: Gas cans on back door?	mxmikie	03/31/12 02:21 PM
Re: Gas cans on back door?	off-roader	03/31/12 11:25 PM
Re: Gas cans on back door?	Pete_D	04/01/12 02:54 AM
Re: Gas cans on back door?	off-roader	04/01/12 03:10 AM
Re: Gas cans on back door?	Pete_D	04/01/12 03:32 AM
Re: Gas cans on back door?	off-roader	04/01/12 06:31 AM
Re: Gas cans on back door?	mxmikie	04/01/12 09:30 AM
Re: Gas cans on back door?	fasteddy	04/01/12 05:08 PM
Re: Gas cans on back door?	Mudraider	04/01/12 08:48 PM
Re: Gas cans on back door?	MartySoCal	03/27/12 04:40 AM
Re: Gas cans on back door?	Mudraider	03/29/12 01:53 AM
Re: Gas cans on back door?	allsierra123	03/29/12 02:05 AM
Re: Gas cans on back door?	fasteddy	03/29/12 02:08 AM
Re: Gas cans on back door?	MartySoCal	03/30/12 02:39 PM
Re: Gas cans on back door?	RECON45	03/30/12 04:06 PM
Re: Gas cans on back door?	geocrasher	03/30/12 04:06 PM
Re: Gas cans on back door?	RECON45	03/30/12 04:42 PM
Re: Gas cans on back door?	off-roader	03/30/12 08:04 PM
Re: Gas cans on back door?	geocrasher	03/30/12 08:37 PM
Re: Gas cans on back door?	off-roader	03/30/12 09:51 PM
Re: Gas cans on back door?	MartySoCal	03/31/12 04:17 PM

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