{"id":3772,"date":"2014-01-31T03:00:06","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T08:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=3772"},"modified":"2014-01-31T03:00:06","modified_gmt":"2014-01-31T08:00:06","slug":"q-and-a-trouble-with-ball-lids-and-purchasing-10-cans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2014\/01\/31\/q-and-a-trouble-with-ball-lids-and-purchasing-10-cans\/","title":{"rendered":"Q and A: trouble with Ball lids and purchasing #10 cans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Trouble with Ball lids<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Regarding ask Jackie letter, Trouble with Ball lids in Jan\/Feb magazine. I had the same reliability problems with Ball lids. Ordered bulk lids from Lehman&#8217;s. These are made in USA, come in paper sleeves aprox. 288 per sleeve. Have used 600 plus in past three years. Have had less than a dozen failures to seal, most likely my fault. The rubber on the lids is thicker as is the coating. Have used regular and wide mouth with same results. Hope this helps.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>John Hauk<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Locust Grove, Georgia<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Thanks for your input, John. Lehman&#8217;s does have many homesteader-friendly products! &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n<p><strong>Purchasing #10 cans<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>I want to can some dry food in #10 cans. I cannot find a place to buy cans that do not require a purchase of thousands of cans. We need only a hundred or so to start with. We are buying a sealer with some friends to share.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>A.S.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Raleigh, North Carolina<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Two sources of #10 cans are: House of Cans (www.houseofcans.com) and Container Supply Company (www.containersupplycompnay.com). I hope one of these companies will work for you. Good luck with your project! &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trouble with Ball lids Regarding ask Jackie letter, Trouble with Ball lids in Jan\/Feb magazine. I had the same reliability problems with Ball lids. Ordered bulk lids from Lehman&#8217;s. These are made in USA, come in paper sleeves aprox. 288 per sleeve. Have used 600 plus in past three years. Have had less than a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3772"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}