My dad had one that was made to work with baby food jars. IIRC it
was a hexagon about 12-16 inches wide supported on each end by its
hanging bracket. Each facet of the hexagon had the jar lids
firmly attached, about 4 or 5 lids per facet. I remember spinning
that rig around looking for "little nuts" or whatever. I decided
to make my own:
In this modern day and age, I don't think I would use glass jars
anymore. I had one of my fellas bring in baby food jars. The
lids don't screw on like the old ones, I found them totally
inappropriate and all I can see is the potential for broken glass
and tiny objects everywhere. There are quite a few foods that
come in clear plastic jars now, getting a reasonable quantity
becomes the issue. It would take a lot of peanut butter or small
units of mayonnaise or some such to keep my assortment of
miscellaneous. So I haven't ever finished the project - I had the
wood work all done.
Google solves all, though this violates the theory of making and
scrounging what is needed:
http://www.sks-bottle.com/340c/fin15.html
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--I've reached the point where nuts, bolts, etc are so numerous
that
they no longer fit in those little plastic parts jars, the ones
that thread
into those red plastic caps that attach to pegboard. Nowadays
I'm using
plastic quart-size jars and as the number is mounting the
workbench is
shrinking!
--What I'd like to do is hang 'em beneath an existing shelf in
some
way that doesn't include nailing the lid to it. Ideally I'd like
to find
some extruded aluminum with a "top-hat" cross section. This way
the
extrusions could be cut to length, drilled thru the middle and
attached to a
shelf, spaced apart so that jar lids would slide between the
horizontal
bits. So far I haven't spotted anything like this and I've been
making my
own pseudo-extrusions. First time I did this by fastening
strips of 1/8" x
1" aluminum to 1/2" square sections, then bolting these to the
bottom of a
shelf. Now, second time around, I'm welding strips of .09" steel
to 1/2"
square tube, then drilling large hole thru the sandwich and
smaller hole
thru the topside so I can fasten the things to the shelf with
hex head
sheetmetal screws.
--Anyway, long story short: this would be a *lot* easier with a
single extrusion that only needed to be cut to length and
drilled a couple
of times. Has anyone seen anything like this? Links appreciated!
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