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Portable Gas Pump

My local Farm & Fleet had a 5 gallon gas can with a foot pump and a hose/nozzle for filling with for $20. Considering that I can't seem to fill my motorcycle without spilling (either at the gas pump or from a jerry can), I though one of these might not be a bad idea. (The shape of the 3-gallon gas tank means it takes two minutes to get an inch of gasoline in the bottom of the tank but 2 microseconds to fill the last three inches--gas pumps are far too fast to stop it in time.)

Well, they were out of them. That prompted me to search the internet. While I couldn't find something exactly the same, I did find similar devices.

It seems that the next price point is $100-200, and these are 15-20 gallon tanks designed primarily for boat owners and rely on gravity to feed the gasoline from the dock down into a boat. That doesn't seem to work so well for a motorcycle.

After that, I could spend $1,000 for a full fuel-transfer rig like the local farmers use. That would be big-time overkill for my application.
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