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GnuBobo
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E-Z Re-useable filtered jar lid pictorial
#5376056 - 03/07/06 10:02 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Hello, all. I was making some lids tonight and figured, hell, I have a digicam, I might as well make a pictorial on it in case anyone is interested.
Okay. So, you need plastic lids. Like these: 
Then, you drill two holes in each lid, one bigger (for the filter) and one smaller (for the injection port). MAKE SURE you sand down the top AND underside of the injection port hole--you need a rough surface area so the silicone will not pull off when you're sticking a syringe needle through it--and also sand the top of the lid around the filter hole so your tyvek will have a good anchor on the lid. So it should look like this after you've drilled and sanded: 
Now, you need some gasket maker silicone sealant. There are several different RTV Permatex brands out there. I think nearly all of them will stand up to PC'ing temps, it should say on the back. I used this one, as it was teh cheep --I think like 4 or 5 bucks for a tube: 
Do the injection port silicone blob first. I don't use the nozzle included with the gasket maker, I just go straight from the tube. Give the top of the lid a little kiss of silicone, swirl it around a bit so you have a millimeter or two of spreaded silicone that will adhere to the sanded surface around the injection port hole, pull the tube away, and you should have a little blob that looks like this in profile: Then, you'll most likely have a bit of silicone poking through the injection port hole on the underside. Give that a little kiss of silicone, spread it around in the same way as before, pull the tube away and smooth out any of that "chocolate chip" curl the silicone may have.
Then, I like to use a popsicle stick or something to spread the silicone with for the filter sealing. Make a ring of silicone a millimeter or two outside the filter hole, so that the silicone won't blob over when you press the tyvek to it. It should look like this: 
Then, take a square of tyvek that's clearly larger than the filter hole, hold one corner of that tyvek square against the lid where there is no silicone, then, with another finger, tamp down on the tyvek square in a circle to stick it to the silicone (you don't need to do this with much pressure, just so they glob together; the silicone will harden later and you won't have a problem).
So, your filtered lid should look like this from the underside (NO silicone blobbing over and constricting the filter area ):
From the top, it will look like this: 
Let it dry for 18 or 24 hours, take an Exacto knife or something similar, trim off the excess tyvek that's not adhered to the silicone, and you're good to go.
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Atheist
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Re: E-Z Re-useable filtered jar lid pictorial [Re: GnuBobo]
#5376085 - 03/07/06 10:13 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Wow this is really good to have. Where can I find those caps tho, I've never seen them before. My caps are all fucking rusty too.
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GnuBobo
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Re: E-Z Re-useable filtered jar lid pictorial [Re: Atheist]
#5376096 - 03/07/06 10:20 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Any stores that sell canning supplies should have them. Though, grocery stores that sell jars around here don't always have plastic lids, and Walmart for some reason doesn't carry them either. I guess you just have to look around a bit.
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Re: E-Z Re-useable filtered jar lid pictorial [Re: GnuBobo]
#5376132 - 03/07/06 10:40 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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for injection site. not as cheap as silicone but nice if you like to keep a good apearance. not very exspensive either though.
theyre called serum vial stoppers: http://www.isss.biz/serum-vial-stoppers.htm
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Re: E-Z Re-useable filtered jar lid pictorial [Re: GnuBobo]
#5376145 - 03/07/06 10:45 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Quote:
GnuBobo said: Any stores that sell canning supplies should have them. Though, grocery stores that sell jars around here don't always have plastic lids, and Walmart for some reason doesn't carry them either. I guess you just have to look around a bit.
Get stoned on your day off and go re-con likely targets.
stores around here havent sold them for over 2 years
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Re: E-Z Re-useable filtered jar lid pictorial [Re: A0999]
#5376158 - 03/07/06 10:53 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Quote:
anarchist0999 said:

for injection site. not as cheap as silicone but nice if you like to keep a good apearance. not very exspensive either though.
theyre called serum vial stoppers: http://www.isss.biz/serum-vial-stoppers.htm
It's that same self-healing property, yeah. I'm sort of DIY so I need a liquid silicone to fit my irregular drilled holes. And, yes, plastic lids can be difficult to acquire in some areas. You can always look online, of course. But if you're going to do that, you'd be better off buying several packs of them just to save on shipping and the expensive prices I've seen for plastic lids online.
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Re: E-Z Re-useable filtered jar lid pictorial [Re: GnuBobo]
#5376238 - 03/07/06 11:15 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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very cool write up 
A few questions. How many trips do those lids last through the PC.
And could you use the microfilter disk that last forever.....
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Re: E-Z Re-useable filtered jar lid pictorial [Re: Snaggletooth]
#5376308 - 03/07/06 11:28 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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A0999
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Re: E-Z Re-useable filtered jar lid pictorial [Re: A0999]
#5376323 - 03/07/06 11:32 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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damn shipping is $10 though. poo
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Re: E-Z Re-useable filtered jar lid pictorial [Re: A0999]
#5376353 - 03/07/06 11:37 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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anarchist0999 said: damn shipping is $10 though. poo
dude what do you think the box with 96 lids looks like 10 buck is cheap !! and there are 28 bucks a box thats like 39 cents a lid delivered just look at how hard some of the mushroom site would rip you for the same thing 96 lids at sporeworks is 96 bucks
BTY i make my lid like that too but i by filter disks cut them up and glue them on and don't put the needle site because i do g2g but like you said you HAVE to rough up the top of the lid for the glue and i use the RED its kinda caustic its bonds with the plastic NOTE don't get the Black it will peel right off with no force
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Re: E-Z Re-useable filtered jar lid pictorial [Re: A0999]
#5376433 - 03/07/06 11:56 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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I used rubber stoppers just like those anarchist. And I found packets of short latex tubing to be stuffed with polyfil and act as filter hoses on the lids. 96 stoppers and 100 tubes is $10 + $6 shipping, so it gives you enough to make nearly 100 filter lids.
I made like 1-2 dozen of them last weekend, and it was actually really cool how well they worked. With a little bit of manipulation, the stoppers and tubs could be affixed into the lids extremely tightly, with no need of silicone. I'd take a picture, but my camera is shit and goes through batteries like an addict.
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Re: E-Z Re-useable filtered jar lid pictorial [Re: Dem_Bones]
#5376544 - 03/08/06 01:37 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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if they used usps' cheapest shipping method it would only be like $3-5
still 10 is not too bad i just HATE paying for shipping. arent i doing enough by buying your god damned product?
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Re: E-Z Re-useable filtered jar lid pictorial [Re: A0999]
#5376553 - 03/08/06 01:51 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Shyeah... shipping is a bitch. I've been looking for a magnet for a homemade stir plate. I checked out a couple sites recommended by people on here and they both had minimum $7 shipping. The magnets I wanted only costed like $3. That's just insane! $10 for a $3 magnet, thanks to the $7 shipping! Bagh..
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Re: E-Z Re-useable filtered jar lid pictorial [Re: tiny_rabid_birds]
#5376700 - 03/08/06 06:58 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Haha if i was to buy them it would cost me either 102 dollars or 31 dollars for shipping alone so stop whinging and weve no USPS in ireland to rob the envelopes Anyone want to send me some haha Ill paypal money for postage costs
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Re: E-Z Re-useable filtered jar lid pictorial [Re: GnuBobo]
#5376777 - 03/08/06 08:02 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Cough.....uhhhhhhh 
Has anyone noted that the plastic Kerr/Ball lids are:
STORAGE LIDS, not meant for canning.
If anyone wonders WHY. 
They generally will not form a VACUUM SEAL.
I say generally, because if you screw them on SUPER TIGHT, they might sometimes.
But, when they are that TIGHT.
They are NEARLY impossible to unscrew.
Even screwed on TIGHT, they often will LEAK fluids. (just fill a jar with water, screw on a lid & lay it sideways over-night).
How one RESOLVES this issue is to use rubber gasket rings.
 Good luck finding ones that will fit.
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Re: E-Z Re-useable filtered jar lid pictorial [Re: agar]
#5377021 - 03/08/06 09:43 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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got a link?
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Re: E-Z Re-useable filtered jar lid pictorial [Re: agar]
#5377124 - 03/08/06 10:18 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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i have also had plastic lids melt on me while pc'n.
will not use plastic again... rust is ok.
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Re: E-Z Re-useable filtered jar lid pictorial [Re: Oatman2000]
#5377243 - 03/08/06 11:12 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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do they not make autoclavable lids?
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Re: E-Z Re-useable filtered jar lid pictorial [Re: Oatman2000]
#5377247 - 03/08/06 11:14 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Hum all i use is those plastic lids i never have any problems with them once i got the feel for them. when you load them in the cooker you leave the lid just a little loose and then snug up when unloading from cooker (at this point the jars are still venting steam so thay have positive presser) and then after inoculating i close real tite. one other note is to let the presser off real real slow,at 250F those lids are a bit soft and you can blow them of if you just pull the weight of and let it drop all the way down. also if you put the lids on supper tite before cooking thay are a bitch to get off when cool so like i said keep it just a hair loose
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Re: E-Z Re-useable filtered jar lid pictorial [Re: Dem_Bones]
#5377283 - 03/08/06 11:29 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Dem_Bones said: when you load them in the cooker you leave the lid just a little loose and then snug up when unloading from cooker (at this point the jars are still venting steam so thay have positive presser) and then after inoculating i close real tite.
also if you put the lids on supper tite before cooking thay are a bitch to get off when cool so like i said keep it just a hair loose
why keep them loose? you have a air filter (airflow) and injection site. you wont need to take the lids off until theyre fully colonized, unless your doing g2g, cloning, or other shit like that.
sorry if i dont know what im talking about. i have never used plastic lids before.
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