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).
>
>
>
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