Today I went to the Culligan distributorship and bought 4 5 gallon jugs with caps for $6 each. The gal gave me a receipt and told me to drive around back into the plant yard. When the man loaded the jugs he asked me what I was going to do with them. I told him I was going to store water in them. He said, "I didn't hear that, I heard that you were going to put plants in them and fill one with pennys". Then he took us over to another area and said help yourselves. We got 6 more jugs and he gave us new caps for them. They don't refill them. They cut them in half and give them to some guy that picks them up for recycling. So I came home with 6 of them and when I am am back over in that area of town again, I will get a bunch more. I am sure the neighbors will enjoy having one after Jan 1. There is a hand pump made to fit on these jugs. It can be ordered by mail, but don't have the catalog in front of me to tell you which company. But I figure that I will have one on the sink counter and one in each bathroom. All with a hand pump. That way there is water for handwashing, teeth brushing, and drinking in between the times we run the generator and pump water. So much easier than having various

-- Taz (Tassie@aol.com), July 20, 1999

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than having various size jugs sitting around. So hit the Culligan Man for those 5 gallon jugs.

Taz...who likes her comforts.

-- Taz (Tassie@aol.com), July 20, 1999.

Thanks for the great find, Taz, just curious, do the "penny jar and flower pot" jugs look like they'll hold a more petroleum-rich water for just a one-time use? (Funny how much harder it is to tote a 55 gal. drum nowadays; gallons must have been a lot lighter when I was a kid!)

-- Roger (Pecosrog@earthlink.net), July 20, 1999.

Please post the supplier for the pumps when you find it?

Thanks!

-- Hey (culli@gan.man), July 20, 1999.

My local walmart has five gallon plastic carriers for $4.98. Just FYI

-- preparing (central@ohio.com), July 20, 1999.

-- jumpoffjoe (jumpoff@echoweb.net), July 20, 1999.

Oops, don't know how I did that.

Taz, do you remember the thread I started ten or twelve days ago about what kind of material could be used to glue a pipe fitting to a bottle? (actually it was what kind of material was safe to use with potable water supplies, something like that)

The reason I was asking was because we needed to glue a pipe fitting to a water bottle, not for y2k preparedness, but for use at the Oregon Country Fair, where we have been going every summer for over twenty years.

See, we had just bought this six or seven bottle water bottle with a pour spout. That was fine, but I thought it would be nice to be able to turn a handle and have water come out, kind of like when you turn on the faucet on your kitchen sink. But the pour spout on our new water bottle had non-standard threads on it. So I decided to glue a two inch pvc pipe nipple onto it, then reduce the nipple down to three quarter inch with a 2"x3/4" pvc bushing. Then I could screw in a 3/4" hose bib (faucet to you non plumbing types).

Unfortunately, I didn't get to learn what kind of material to use until we had already left for the fair. So we continued in our primitive practice of pouring water into a bowl to wash hands/dishes/ etc. We had one of those pumps for several years, but they are pretty damn pitiful to use with one hand while washing the other hand :)

Anyhow, thanks to the great response from this forum I learned that Dow Silicone is safe for potable water. I also found a kind of epoxy which is drinking water safe. So next year we'll have gracious living at the fair.

To make a long story longer, Taz, you might want to glue a couple of pipe fittings onto the neck of your Culligan bottle, add a hose bib, put the bottle on its side on your countertop, and start living graciously!@

JOJ

-- jumpoffjoe (jumpoff@echoweb.net), July 20, 1999.

Taz, they're not free in my city. Seven dollars each, empty, usually scratched and scuffed ugly. As noted above, there are new water containers available for less.

No thanks, Culligan Man!

-- Randolph (dinosaur@williams-net.com), July 20, 1999.

The jugs are pretty heavy. I would think they would be ok for petroleum products. And they will give you caps for them. Taz

-- Taz (Tassie@aol.com), July 21, 1999.

Consider moving or copying this thread to the Preparation Forum.

-- Tom Carey (tomcarey@mindspring.com), July 21, 1999.

The hand pumps are battery operated allowing you to turn on and leave on until you want to turn off. They are $17.95 and are available:

Harriet Carter Co.

1-800 377-7878

Item# F1322

Taz

-- Taz (Tassie@aol.com), July 22, 1999.