I’ve been doing some paint stripping lately and ran up against a problem of not having something just the right size for some passenger cars. Seems either what I had was way too big or so small that I could only get the ends into the 91% alcohol. It dawned on me that I have a Tupperware spaghetti storage container and it works like a charm. I can fit about 90 percent of an 85’ car into it, strip the paint then flip it end for end to get the rest. Nice thing is, I can seal the container and same the alcohol. I may look for a glass version with a screw on lid next.
OBTW, I do the cooking so I didn’t get in trouble with you know who!
Rick
Let’s hear it for used plastic food containers of all sizes!
My wife won’t re-use any container (Zip-Loc or other) if it’s anything but pristine when it comes out of the dishwasher, so I have a continuous supply of ‘good enough for the railroad’ freezer boxes and such to choose from.
My most unusual use is as a safety container for a homemade power supply. The lid of the box has three screw terminals, and is glued on. A 120 volt cord (ex light duty extension cord) passes through a grommet-fitted hole in the side. Inside: a low-cost filament transformer, and a couple of wire nuts. Input 120vac (from a breaker-equipped outlet strip) - output 12.6vac, center-tapped (which gives me 2 6.3vac lighting circuits) - capacity 36 watts (never approached in ordinary operation.) The Zip-Loc box keeps careless fingers out of the house current.
I personally use a spaghetti storage container for storing ‘useful’ lengths of rail, brass tubing, small dowels and such.
Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
I use peanut butter jars for scenery matirials; ground foam, dirt, ect.
Another item is the drawer tray(sections) by Rubbermaid(I think). Look at the Pringle potato chip tubes. There is /was a blue plastic available.
Mike Dickinson