[NHCOLL-L:1831] bottle gasket material

[Bob Glotzhober]

This may have been on the listserv before -- I don't quite recall.
I'm looking for a readily available, functional, and cheap replacement
gasket material for glass jars.

We have a number of specimens in alcohol in very old glass bottles with
mason-jar-like rubber gaskets at the top.  Some of these bottles may be 50
years or more old and are unlike any shapes that I have in new stocks.  I
have been replacing alcohol in them that has gotten discolored with age.
Sometimes when they are finally opened, the gaskets are brittle and
destroyed.  I have other (new) jars that I can (and have) transfer
everything into -- but sometimes the shape of the old bottles is much better
than any of the new ones I have.  Not only that -- but some of these bottles
are a work of art in themselves -- and I hate the idea of just throwing them
away.  Of course, with different shapes, I cannot just go out and purchase
new jar gaskets from a canning supplier.  Is there a source of material that
is available in sheets that could be cut into new replacement gaskets?


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