[pct-l] 5 gallon bounce bucket

[csiechert at hotmail.com (Carl Siechert)]

The chlorine tablets we buy for our pool come in a 5-gallon bucket with a
screw top. The top has a rubber O-ring-type gasket that ensures a tight seal
and keeps the lid from unscrewing accidentally. The lid on some brands have
a spring-loaded lever that catches on teeth around the edge, which provides
a more certain method of keeping it closed. (It works like some child-proof
prescription bottle caps.)

You might check at a pool-supply place if there are any in your neck of the
woods. If you can't find one, let me know off-list and I'll see if we have
any empties; I'd be happy to mail one to you.

> On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Steve Setzer wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I went to the hardware store this weekend to get a 5 gallon 
> paint bucket
> > to use as a bounce box, but I was thwarted.  The regular 
> snap on lids do
> > not come off without a special tool unless you cut loose 
> the flaps around
> > the outside of the lid.  The guy at the hardware store told 
> me that if I
> > did that, the lid wouldn't close tight anymore.  So it 
> seems like these
> > lids are only meant to be used once (and this guy said they 
> are the only
> > lids he's aware of).