I ran my mini out of fuel again on Friday and lucky for me it stopped just around the corner from my house so i walked home and got the lawnmower fuel can. As i was fitting the nozzle i noticed that i happen to own a Paddy Hopkirk product.

I've always liked the Explosafe fuel can because it seemed like a good idea to have a one that won't imbed shards of metal in you if a spark ignites the vapour. Until recently the name Paddy Hopkirk meant nothing to me.

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Nice find...and the explosafe foam uses only about 1% of the volume of the tank even though it fills the whole container.

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It's not foam in mine it's metal mesh as far as i can see. Perhaps the later models use foam or maybe the mesh is there to hold the foam in place.

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Sorry...I was thinking mesh and wrote foam.....my brother in law used to work for the mfr....can you imagine how much mesh you need for a fuel reservoir at Kurnell...heaps

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