[NHCOLL-L:1353] RE: Large glass bottles

[Amy Estep]

Sylvie,

Kols is now out of the 120 mm finish gallon jars, too.

Amy


Sylvie Laframboise wrote:

> One gallon glass jar with a 120 mmm neck size with screw type polypropylene lid with F217 liner can be obtained from Kols Container in the states.  Half a gallon (64oz.) jars with a 83 mm opening are also available.  They have a wide range of collection containers and closures like flint economy jars, flint paragon jar (tall) and flint cream jar.  Their address is the following:
>
> KOLS CONTAINERS, INC.
> 1408 DeSoto Road
> Baltimore, Maryland
> 21230
> Phone: 410-646-2300 / 1-800-457-5657
> fax: 410-646-5671
> email: bobw at oberk.com
> Business hours: 8:00 -4:30 p.m. ET
>
> You can ask for samples before ordering.
>
> Sylvie Laframboise
> Assistant Collection Manager -Fish /
> Responsable des collections ichtyologiques
> Canadian Museum of Nature / Musée canadien de la nature
> P.O. Box 3443, Station "D" / C.P. 3443, Succ. "D"
> Ottawa, Ontario
> K1P 6P4
> phone: 613-364-4087
> FAX:    613-364-4027
> email:  slaframboi at nature.ca
>
> >>> "Simmons, John E" <jsimmons at ku.edu> 11/29/01 05:37PM >>>
> I don't know of a supplier for the glass jars you are looking for, but you
> might consider PET jars.  Depending on how good the lid is, these might be
> reasonable substitutes.  Polyethylene terephthalate is a thin, clear plastic
> (the stuff soft drink bottles are made of) which has very low oxygen
> permeability.  A number of plastics companies sell them, including:
> SKS Bottle and Packaging
> 3 Knabner Rd
> Mechanicville, NY 12118
> 518-899-7488
>
> or
> Freund Can Company
> 155 West 84th Street
> Chicago, IL 60620
> 773-224-4320
>
> You can also find a number of manufacturers simply by searching for PET on
> the internet.
>
> I have not seen them in Walmart here, but I recently purchased a gallon-size
> PET jar with polypropylene lid (110 mm mouth) at a Walmart in Mexico City.
>
> What you want to watch is the closure--not all of these containers have
> suitable lids.  Check the lid for evaporation potential (put a measured
> amount of fluid in the jar, put on the lid, and heat it in a double boiler
> for a while).  You can often improve the seal by wrapping the jar threads in
> Teflon plumbers tape.
>
> As a larger alternative for fluid preserved specimens, we are using HDPE
> (high-density polyethylene) buckets with screw-on lids from Consolidated
> Plastics.  These are resistant to alcohol and due to their thickness,
> relative impermeable to oxygen (but not as good as PET in this regard).  Do
> NOT allow HDPE buckets to be exposed to UV, as this will lead to their
> deterioration.
> Consolidated Plastics, Inc
> 1864 Enterprise Parkway
> Twinsburg, OH 44087
> 1-800-362-1000
>
> --John
>
> John E. Simmons
> Collection Manager, Natural History Museum
> and
> Coordinator, Historical Administration and Museum Studies Program
> University of Kansas
> Dyche Hall
> 1345 Jayhawk Boulevard
> Lawrence, Kansas 66045-7561
> Phone 785-864-4508
> FAX 785-864-5335
> jsimmons at ku.edu
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gordon Hendler [mailto:hendler at nhm.org]
> Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 4:09 PM
> To: NHCOLL-L at lists.yale.edu
> Subject: [NHCOLL-L:1346] Large glass bottles
>
>         (1) Can anyone suggest sources for half-gallon and one-gallon (or
> larger)
> glass, screw-top bottles, with 120 mm diameter (or larger) openings?
>         The distributors whom we have recently contacted (e.g. Kohls,
> General
> Bottle Supply, etc.) carry gallon bottles with a 110 mm opening, but have
> all discontinued glass bottles with 120 mm openings and no longer stock
> half-gallon bottles.
>         (2) We are looking for transparent, evaporation-resistant storage
> containers for "oversize" specimens that are preserved in alcohol. Has
> anyone found alternatives to opaque plastic buckets and metal tanks for
> that purpose?
>         Thank you for any help with this query.
>
> ********************************************
> Gordon Hendler, Ph.D.
> Curator of Echinoderms
> Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
> 900 Exposition Boulevard
> Los Angeles, California 90007 U.S.A.
> Voice:  213 763 3526
> Fax:    213 746 2999
> e-mail: hendler at nhm.org
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