CF fuel cans, Home Depot?

[chris vickery]

On assignment for work here in Moncton NB, I ventured into the local Home Depot to pick a few items up for the job site.
Low and behold, adjacent to the checkout, brand new green CF Scepter fuel cans for sale as well as CF issued spouts.
I find this to be rather bizarre but perhaps someone out the has some insight on this?
And yes, these are the real mccoy, the spounts in packaging complete with NSN numbering.
They also have the cans in civilian red as well.

[Terry McMillan]

Ya you can also buy them at Princess Auto here in Ontario , along with the European NATO cans !

[Robin Craig]

They only become CF items when the crown pays for them.

In the meantime they are manufacturers overstock made to CF spec is how I view them

What say you?

R

[chris vickery]

Perhaps Robin they are overstock.
What I find unusual in this is that typically items generated for end use by the military are usually only seen on the civilian market once they become redundant if at all. Most government contractors are limited as to how they dispose of surplus or over run materials under their contracts.
I tried to purchase Scepter cans directly years ago and was told in no certain terms that they were destined strictly for military contracts only.
Maybe since the wrap up of combat deployments in the middle east many contractors find themselves with warehouses full of extra junk?
The weird thing on this is the fact that a chain store like Home Depot has these. I could understand Princess Auto or other surplus type dealers...

[rob love]

They are not surplus, but rather manufactured for the civilian market. The US has also adopted the sceptre system.

Here is a link to the fuel can page for Sceptre: http://mil.sceptermilitary.com/fuel_...uel_canisters/

And from there, here is a link to some of the civilian distributors of these products: http://mil.sceptermilitary.com/military_distributors/

[Wayne Hingley]

Out of curiosity, what was the price for one of these cans at Home Depot?

[maple_leaf_eh]

As mentioned there is a market for milspec equipment and tools. The supply of good metal ammunition cans dried up a while ago. Instead I'd find ex British ones from BATUS or maybe American ones. Never in good enough condition to be trusted with anything important, or worth collecting. Then I started seeing brand new unlabelled cans at Princess Auto. Upon inspection and a little Goofle searching, it appears these are made in Edmonton for retail sale at Princess Auto. I've seen .30, .50, fat .50, 40mm and some other size I didn't recognize.

The exception to my remarks about the supply was a pallet of WWII side-folding lid .50cal cans that turned up a few years ago. I don't like that style for my purposes, but bought up as many as I could afford. The last one went to a machine gun shooter.