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    How do you make a modern Ball squatty half pint turn purple?

    Normally not interested in Ball or irradiated jars, but this morning I saw on e-bay a ball squatty with the 1975+ logo style on it, in purple. Ugly tannish brown I could understand, but how do you get purple?
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    dimples in mouth blown jars

    I just had one of the duh moments - which unfortunately seem to be increasing in rate as I get older.I had always accepted without challenge, the idea that fruit jar dimples (as in the July 14 1908 McDonnell patent used on Ball jars) to secure bale wires were not successful earlier, because it...
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    Cleaning bale wires

    Newbie to this forum.Do you clean rust from your bales or do you keep it the same as you found it?If you do clean them, are you using steel wool or brass bristles, citric acid solutions, electrolysis, or something else?Once cleaned, do you coat them with something to prevent them from oxidizing...
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