Baby food jars are glass. They break. They can be recycled.
Chinese soup take-out containers are better. Though they are made of
number 5 (or 6?) recyclable plastic, no one takes them for recycling.
They have wide openings. They can be stacked on a shelve and you can
take the top with you. They also come in convenient cup, pint and quart
sizes. The tops don't rust. The downside is they are not clear, but you
can write on them with a permanent marker.
Peter Thomas
Gerald Brazil wrote:
>Many years ago (when our family had baby food jars) there was a company
>that advertised in the back or magazines like Popular Mechanics and Wood
>Working that sold plastic tops for baby food jars that fit on peg board.
>They were really nice. Check and see if they are still available.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: shop-talk-owner@autox.team.net
>[mailto:shop-talk-owner@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Mike Sloane
>Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 5:36 PM
>To: shop-talk@autox.team.net
>Subject: Re: Baby food jars
>
>
>
>Brian Borgstede wrote:
>
>
>>I have a six-month-old boy at home and a HUGE pile
>>of empty baby food jars aching to do something creative. Okay, I know
>>the old stuff about keeping small parts. You attach the lid to
>>something and put little parts in the jars and hang the jars off the
>>lids.
>>
>>
>There are two ways to utilize baby food jars for small parts.
>
>1. screw the lids to the underside of shelves above the work bench or
>other
>similar areas, so you can have the little parts handy. Also save peanut
>butter
>and other similar jars for larger parts (you will have plenty of peanut
>butter
>jars after the baby food is no longer needed).
>
>2. This is a little more difficult to explain but easy to do. Find a
>piece of
>wood about a foot long or longer and about 2" square or more. Screw the
>lids to
>the long sides of the wood all around. Then you find either an old paper
>towel
>holder or make some metal "L" shaped brackets and put them under the
>same shelf
>as 1. above and loosely mount the wood between them with lag screws so
>that the
>whole affair can spin. Note: only remove jars from this device when the
>jars are
>at the bottom position. The trick is to try to load up the jars so that
>they are
>more or less balanced, making the whole thing easier to spin around.
>This whole
>thing is easier to make than to describe. I suppose you could make it
>out of
>plastic pipe somehow, but that is not the tradtional way to do it - I
>saved one
>from my parents' house that has to be from when I was a baby, 60 years
>ago.
>
>Mike
>
>
>
>>I NEED SOMETHING NEW! SOMETHING COOL!
>>
>>Please send me your ideas (even if it involves
>>keeping microscopic bits of trimmer string away
>>from critters).
>>
>>
>>
>>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>Brian Borgstede !
>>Distance Learning Engineer !
>>University of Missouri - St. Louis ! '68 Triumph TR-250
>>Phone: (314)516-6433 ! (or two or more)
>>Fax: (314)516-6019 !
>>Email: borgstede@umsl.edu !
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