Containers

Closures

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What is here The liner is the specification Plain caps for the sorting jars Dome lids for the jars opened constantly Lug and twist where a quarter turn helps Phenolic for the solvent Round tubs for hulls and wads Standardise the neck across the rack Nothing here is for powder or primers Specify the liner by name on the order Avoid anything with a moving part Buy spares with the set References

Brass tarnishes and steel rusts. Nine liners for eleven leaves.

What is here

221 continuous thread, 22 dome lids, 18 lug and twist, 9 liners and sealing discs, 6 round tubs, 5 phenolic, 4 specialty and 2 lip balm tubes.

The liner is the specification

Nine of them. Brass tarnishes, steel components rust, cast bullet lubricant migrates, and a garage is damp. All four are a seal.

Plain caps for the sorting jars

221 continuous thread. A component jar is opened, something is taken out, and it is closed. Nothing mechanical is wanted.

Dome lids for the jars opened constantly

22 of them. A loading session opens the same few containers repeatedly and a lift-off lid is faster than a thread.

Lug and twist where a quarter turn helps

18 of them. Useful with lubricated or dirty fingers, which is most of a reloading bench.

Phenolic for the solvent

5 of them. For an ammonia-bearing copper solvent the traditional resistant closure, and a small set.

Round tubs for hulls and wads

6 round tubs and 12 tubs and pails. The bulky end of the craft, and a lift-off lid is right for something scooped by the handful.

Standardise the neck across the rack

56 containers at 89-400 and 56 at 70-400. A bench with thirty jars works better on one or two necks and one box of spare lids.

Nothing here is for powder or primers

Worth repeating on the closures page because a good seal is exactly the wrong property for propellant, and a quick lid is the wrong one for primers.

Specify the liner by name on the order

It is the component that decides whether brass tarnishes over a winter, and it is the one most often left to whatever the cap happened to arrive with.

Avoid anything with a moving part

No pumps, no droppers, no flip tops for the sorting jars. A component container is opened twice a session and a mechanism is a surface for lubricant and grit to collect on.

Buy spares with the set

Lids crack, get lost and end up on the wrong jar. In a thirty-container system they are the consumable.

References

The Davis Pack Supply catalog, measured 19 October 2026. The reloading and shooting shelf is 539 rows: 251 containers and 288 closures. 5 mL to 500 mL with a median of 177; 17 containers at 15 mL or under, 25 at 30 or under, 60 at 60 or under, 116 at 120 or under. 117 PET, 78 PP, 56 glass. 210 jars, 27 bottles, 12 tubs and pails, 2 tubes. 91 clear, 47 white, 32 amber, 26 black, 24 natural. Closures: 221 continuous thread, 22 dome lids, 18 lug and twist, 9 liners and sealing discs, 6 round tubs, 5 phenolic, 4 specialty.

The archetype behind this shelf is store-small-dry: 15 to 500 mL, wide mouth, PP and PET and glass, cold, solid, chunky, scooped, with "small dry parts, wide mouth to get fingers in, clear so you can see what is inside" as its stated reason. Eleven of the thirteen leaves are small dry parts and the shelf is 210 jars against 27 bottles, which fits. It describes the powder and primer leaves too, and should not.

The standing instruction from powder manufacturers and the propellant industry is to keep smokeless powder in its original container, with the original label, and not to decant it. The reason given is confinement: the factory container is built to give way rather than to hold, and a strong sealed container changes how the material behaves when it ignites. This property states that as the industry's stated reason. It is not a regulation, there is none to quote because the material is exempt, and we have not independently verified the mechanism.

Written from 27 CFR 555.11 and 555.141, and from the catalog as it stood on 19 October 2026. No storage quantity limits for smokeless powder or primers appear here: those come from NFPA 495 and from state and local fire codes and they vary. The reason given for keeping powder in its original container is the industry's stated reason, not a regulation and not something this property has independently verified. Nothing here addresses who may manufacture ammunition for sale or how any of it may be transported.