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@CheeseBeast

You'll like how easy it is to use. When it arrives, set it up and run some water through it so you know how it all works. Get a handful of buckets. You need one to haul the dirty water, one with the filter system hooked to it and at least one for the clean filtered water. A couple extra don't hurt. And label the buckets so you don't mix up the potable water buckets with dirty water buckets.

I also bought a couple of the Sawyer Mini filters. Nice to have drinkable water when you're traveling in a shtf world.

I knew a guy once that lived in this neck of the woods who had a totally off-grid solar powered home. Even on cloudy days it would at least trickle charge the batteries. But without outside power you have to be really careful about what you're running. Completely off-grid is a completely different lifestyle.

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Sounds like the particular cans were the problem not the fact that they were metal. I dislike the original wide mouth US jerry cans but the actual NATO cans are awesome. You’ll never have condensation in a NATO can.

NATO doesn’t standardize everything. Ammo and fuel....mostly yes. NATO countries have different weapons and vehicles and aircraft than we do so it’s not unusual they use different fuel cans than the US does.

You will still find some old metal cans floating around in US military motor pools and still being used but the current can for the US is the plastic Scepter can.

That said, I’m sure the VP cans are good too. I’ve never owned any but I have heard plenty of good stuff about them.  I stored gas and diesel for a long time in plastic Scepter cans. I just think gas is a little safer when stored in metal cans vs plastic which is part of the reason I switched to metal NATO cans.

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Perhaps.  Army cans were the only small ones also used 55 gal drums and a 500 gal tank.

You’re incorrect on seeing them kicking around now days.  The adapter for the plastic Army fuel can doesn’t fit on the metal one. I’ve haven’t seen a metal can in a motorpool and with my job I’m fairly familiar with motorpools We did have them for arctic heaters in ‘99-01 but even then chances were your tent had hardware for the plastic can not the metal one.

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I spent 20 years in the USMC. Retired a few years ago. I’ve seen a few metal cans still being used for fuel during my career.

Comparing 55 gallon drums and 500 gallon tanks to 20L Jerry cans is like comparing apples to oranges.