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5 gal buckets stuck together....
Existential Angst wrote:
Awl -- I live by 5 gal buckets -- at any given time, I have between 25 and 60, depending on how reliable neighbors are about returning them. Hammering them apart, tho, is a real pita. Sometimes you *really* gotta hammer! How to keep them from sticking? Thinking one or two sheetrock screws to just stop full insertion. Thought of a line of epoxy on the outside to keep them from "sealing". It's not, I don't believe, a vacuum problem, in which case a simple hole in the bottom would suffice. Any ingenious solutions out there? Best I've seen is to drop a chunka' tubafor in the bottom so they don't/can't bottom out... -- |
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5 gal buckets stuck together....
Brilliant. I'd have never thought of that.
-- Christopher A. Young Learn more about Jesus www.lds.org .. "dpb" wrote in message ... Existential Angst wrote: Awl -- I live by 5 gal buckets -- at any given time, I have between 25 and 60, depending on how reliable neighbors are about returning them. Hammering them apart, tho, is a real pita. Sometimes you *really* gotta hammer! How to keep them from sticking? Thinking one or two sheetrock screws to just stop full insertion. Thought of a line of epoxy on the outside to keep them from "sealing". It's not, I don't believe, a vacuum problem, in which case a simple hole in the bottom would suffice. Any ingenious solutions out there? Best I've seen is to drop a chunka' tubafor in the bottom so they don't/can't bottom out... -- |
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5 gal buckets stuck together....
"dpb" wrote in message ... Existential Angst wrote: Awl -- I live by 5 gal buckets -- at any given time, I have between 25 and 60, depending on how reliable neighbors are about returning them. Hammering them apart, tho, is a real pita. Sometimes you *really* gotta hammer! How to keep them from sticking? Thinking one or two sheetrock screws to just stop full insertion. Thought of a line of epoxy on the outside to keep them from "sealing". It's not, I don't believe, a vacuum problem, in which case a simple hole in the bottom would suffice. Any ingenious solutions out there? Best I've seen is to drop a chunka' tubafor in the bottom so they don't/can't bottom out... -- Make sure they are completely dry before stacking and store them under cover so they don't get wet...Don't stack to many together either....HTH.... |
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