Containers

The shelf, and the size it is not

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What is here By format Against the size the craft uses Which is a pipeline fact, not a sourcing one Say it rather than sell around it The families that matter at the small end And the jars at the wide end PET is the majority and often the wrong answer Which leaves glass as the serious option How to shop it References

Median 118 mL for a 15 mL craft. That is the honest number on this page.

What is here

1,439 rows: 793 containers and 646 closures. 5 mL to 9,464 mL with a median of 118. 430 PET, 133 HDPE, 133 glass, 87 PP and 9 steel.

By format

487 bottles, 281 jars, 13 tubs and pails, 9 tins and 2 tubes. The jars carry brush soap, pigment and basing material; the bottles carry the paint and the washes.

Against the size the craft uses

41 containers at 15 mL or under, 115 at 30 mL or under, 228 at 60 or under and 411 at 120 or under. So the dropper end of this shelf is 115 of 793.

Which is a pipeline fact, not a sourcing one

The archetype behind this group starts at 100 mL because it was written for industrial chemicals. The shelf is the window, and the window is wrong for the work rather than the supply being short.

Say it rather than sell around it

115 containers is a real shelf for a paint decanter and it is not the 793 the count at the top of the page implies. Both numbers are true and only one of them is useful.

The families that matter at the small end

Boston rounds, in PET at 77 and in glass at 71, are the shape this craft recognizes, and the glass ones are the ones a solvent can live in.

And the jars at the wide end

132 PET single wall jars, 33 PP single wall jars and 24 glass straight sided jars. For pigment and brush soap the straight sided glass jar is the better object and the smallest set.

PET is the majority and often the wrong answer

430 of 793. For a water-based acrylic it is fine. For a lacquer, an enamel, a solvent thinner or a decanted primer it is not, and that removes most of the shelf for those products.

Which leaves glass as the serious option

133 containers, 71 of them Boston rounds. Chemically inert, tolerates agitation, shows the pigment load, and is the reason the trade has used it for a century.

How to shop it

Carrier first, which eliminates a resin. Then size, which is the narrow part of this shelf. Then the closure and its liner, which is where the product actually fails.

References

The Davis Pack Supply catalog, measured 18 October 2026. The miniature painting shelf is 1,439 rows: 793 containers and 646 closures. 5 mL to 9,464 mL with a median of 118; 41 containers at 15 mL or under, 115 at 30 mL or under, 228 at 60 or under and 411 at 120 or under. 430 PET, 133 HDPE, 133 glass, 87 PP, 9 steel. 487 bottles, 281 jars, 13 tubs and pails, 9 tins, 2 tubes. 143 amber or dark amber. Closures: 382 continuous thread, 43 dropper assemblies, 32 disc top, 31 child resistant, 27 dome lids, 26 spouted, 19 lug and twist, 17 flip top, 14 phenolic, 13 spice caps.

The archetype behind this shelf is ind-chemical: 100 to 20,000 mL, narrow mouth, HDPE and glass, light sensitive, child resistant, poured, with "chemical resistance is the entire decision, check the resin chart first" as its stated reason. All six leaves in this group sit on it. The window is an industrial one and this craft works at 15 and 30 mL, which is why the shelf reads large for the work.

Written from 15 U.S.C. 1277, 16 CFR 1500.14(b)(8) and 16 CFR 1500.3(c)(6), and from the catalog as it stood on 18 October 2026. Where a requirement turns on a determination the Commission makes rather than on a fixed rule, this property says so. Nothing here is a toxicological review, which is the one thing in this area that cannot be done from a document.