Tip of The Week

May 19, 2007

This week’s tip comes from our “Tops off” file.

Have you ever gone to use some cleaning products, adhesives or other chemicals only to find that you couldn’t remove the top.  So you break out the pliers or channel locks.  Then if you’re like a lot of folks you tear up the cap so now that you have it open you will never be able to seal it again.  Then the remainder of the product goes in the trash.

I read a simple solution in one of my favorite publications “The Family Handyman” published by Readers’ Digest.  The solution is, as usual, very simple.  Take some Teflon tape, the same product you use for plumbing and wrap it round the threads of the container then screw the cap on. (Make sure you wrap the tape in the right direction so it doesn’t peel off as you turn the cap on.)  The next time you go to use it the cap will come of with ease.

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