Don’t use just one, centered screw to fix the lid. When this gets just a little bit loose you can’t unscrew the jar with one hand, you’ll just rotate the whole shebang.
Bonus tip:
If you use three or four screws to secure the lid and place them more towards the edge of the lid, you can drill a hole through the board and the lid, you can drop stuff into the jar without having to unscrew it. This can be quite practical for sorting small-ish bric-a-brac like screws, nails, LEGO bricks, coins, whatever.
it’s like the thrifty superfriends around here!
the exposed floor joists above my grandpa’s basement workshop were covered in these
My dad made one that rotated, sort of like this:
My dad made the same thing!
ok, now i’m wondering if anyone else here was addicted to Popular Mechanics magazine, and if this idea was something made from a Pop Mechanica DIY column.
Why am I hearing this in a sarcastic tone?
It certainly looks like one of the Wordless Workshop projects from Popular Mechanics.
omg YES – that was the name of it! thank you. i was trying to recall it without using teh Googlez and i was failing.
My dad made one, too!
And yes, my pop was a loyal Pop Mech subscriber. He made a beautiful round kitchen table that seated 10 (seven of us plus enough room for visitors). He got the idea from something he saw in the magazine.
oh no, he’s not like that at all. he just knows me well, and knows that i have criteria for the things i choose to save. i have reasons, haha – so he is careful to double-check before just recycling something.
lol; things can come across in a completely different when written or spoken. Imagine a scene from “Everybody loves Raymond”, and it would definitely be sarcastic, with an eyeroll thrown in.