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They make excellent containers for storage of things like arbors, adjustable stop collars, etc.

For those who have rust and corrosion problems, a desiccant bag could be thrown in too.

My favorite is baby food jars for screws, small parts, and findings. Sadly my jars are quite old, However, the twins (grandboys) are due any day, and I am looking forward to starting a new collection.
Gee, peanut butter is a great idea, it is think enough to keep the metal parts from banging against the glass. And it washes off with soap and water before you need to use the part.

kalynzoo wrote: Gee, peanut butter is a great idea, it is think enough to keep the metal parts from banging against the glass. And it washes off with soap and water before you need to use the part.

WOW! A great use for "recalled" PNB!:D DUSTY >>>> Desiccant (gets rid of red dots[spell checker]):D Do KNOT kno if it is correct!

kalynzoo wrote:My favorite is baby food jars for screws, small parts, and findings. Sadly my jars are quite old, However, the twins (grandboys) are due any day, and I am looking forward to starting a new collection.
Gee, peanut butter is a great idea, it is think enough to keep the metal parts from banging against the glass. And it washes off with soap and water before you need to use the part.

I quit using baby food jars because they were glass and I broke a couple. It has been many years since. Maybe baby food jars are no glass - I'll have to check.

But, if I check and they are no longer glass - where do I propose to get them? I still have teeth and don't need baby food...yet. I still love a good steak.

Hi Dusty,

You know I would have never thought to mention using PB jars, I've been doing that since they went to plastic some years back. I must have 40 or 50 of them with all sorts of parts in them, and they are great for that.

I also collected coffee cans for a while and I must have over 100 of them also storing lots of items. I have a collection of yogurt containers when they use to have the clear plastic lids.... and all manner of other containers... as the saying goes:
reuse
reduce
recycle

I think we ended up getting 6 jars of baby food total for our three kids. I got this set of cool yellow lids that let them mount on pegboard. At this time only one jar is left the others all got broken... and the lid system only fit those small glass container. Yes I agree, no glass in my shop, well at least for storage.

Ed

dusty wrote:I quit using baby food jars because they were glass and I broke a couple. It has been many years since. Maybe baby food jars are no glass - I'll have to check.

But, if I check and they are no longer glass - where do I propose to get them? I still have teeth and don't need baby food...yet. I still love a good steak.

Dusty, baby food jars are still glass. BUT some of the food come in rectangular plastic containers. Which I have snagged for my purposes, also keep some Glad containers that sliced ham came in. That I keep my biscuits in.
I STILL have glass jars left over from 30 years ago.

PET 'jars' are also good for 'travel'. Do not need to worry about breakage. They can be packed without worrying about them clanking against one another and breaking.

One "marketing legend" is that USA baby-food sold very poorly in some countries. They were accustomed to the picture on the jar being the same as the contents of the jar.

Good point Chris!

Watch out if you are going out to buy PB these days, there has been a number of deaths due to Salmonella poisoning with PB and they haven't traced the source yet.

P.S. Mayo jars work well too. Lessons I learned from my dad.

I love those tubes that M&Ms come in. Some day I will find a use for them:o

John