I wonder how much the rising price of metal in the past decades, compared to cheap plastic, have influenced switching to plastic or introducing deposits for metal containers?
Here in RI we have to pay a recovery fee for every can of paint, plastic or metal.
Certainly the cost of plating the interior of steel cans is a factor. You can’t count on a thin layer of plastic inside with some substances, the tiniest pinhole could lead to corrosion.
Don’t use galvanized metal trash cans, a kiln can get hot enough to emit vaporized zinc and if you inhale that you’re gonna regret it.
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How about setting the pot on a flat piece of metal and inverting a galvanized metal washtub over it?
Industrial sealers, mastics, and adhesives are all available in 5 gallon buckets. While 55 gallon barrels are more common, there are a lot of applications that would go past the expiry date at that size, and so 5 gallon buckets are surprisingly common.
Why don’t you go to Brofasco or another supplier of industrial fasteners and supplies? I’m sure they carry metal pails.
But there we get again into the Problem mentioned above: if the original Content is sticky or corrosive - and therefore put into metal instead of plastic in the first place - there will be a residue which could give of toxic fumes when burning, or Change the colour of the stuff inside.
I would suggest clean pails instead of used industrial ones for that reason, even if a bit more expensive.
Fairly large terra cotta pots and planters are available at low prices. You might get a great deal on chipped units. If there’s a hole in the bottom it can be plugged with cement.
This is actually a great idea- most organic chemistry labs have those 20L empty cans in abundance. Reach out to your local chemistry department at the local university!
Exactly what I was coming to post. The popcorn machine at the movie theater I used to work at in high school used oil from those big metal buckets.
The oil was solid at room temperature, so when we were getting low, we’d put a new bucket under the machine to warm up and melt so that the heating element would go in easily. On one occasion, it was forgotten, and we were panicking, because no oil means no popcorn. The assistant manager was hacking away at the oil with a little knife, up to his elbow in the stuff, trying to make a channel for the heater. Gross.
+1 on thrift stores, garage & estates sales for metal vessels. Canning pots, electric roasters (often have metal liners), copper boilers, older wastebaskets could all work. Hell, plug the drain of an old cast iron sink and you’re nearly indestructible.
I have two kinds of oil imported in metal cans in the pantry at the moment. One is a 3 liter can of ‘olive oil’ from ‘Greece,’ the other a 56 oz can (of all the weird sizes) of Japanese sesame oil. They’re far too small for OP but oil in cans is a thing.
I get oil in cans also for that small amount. Sometimes in glass as well, and it’s available in those juice box type containers too, but Mangetout was talking about restaurants for fryers (I assumed and he confirmed), that’s been in plastic containers as long as I can remember. It’s often sold by the pound, I suppose because fryolators are usually rated by the pounds of oil they can hold.
I can remember when oil for fryers came in a BOX. Back in the '70s fryer oil came in a cardboard box with a plastic bag as a liner. Could not have been more saturated. We used a pewter trowel-like tool to pull the lard out and into the fryer.
3 gallon terra cotta planters are cheap and will work fine. Use a trash can lid or terra cotta tray to seal the top for reduction.
Wow.
I just bought 11 five gallon pails of flooring glue at ($183 per pail) to have wood floors put in my house.
Don’t know where you would find them used though/