Wide Mouth PETE!

Wide mouth liter/qt soft PETE bottles are my preferred chemical storage system (anti-PETEites notwithstanding). They were pretty widely used in bottled water and soda for a while and fortunately I saved about 6 of them, but a few years ago they suddenly disappeared from the market. Now qt/liter sized soda and water only seems to come in narrow mouth bottles, and the PETE used in wide mouth sport drink bottles is very stiff and very poorly suited for squeezing the air out.

I've been looking for some of the old style wide mouths for years and found something pretty close. Evanor artesian water comes in a 1 qt, soft, squeezable PETE with wide mouth. I bought 6 of them, which is all the (Cub grocery) store had. It seems a bit more crinkly than the older stuff so it may not be as durable, and I wish they were liter instead of qt, but it's otherwise a very adequate substitute. And the water isn't half bad either.

I have been using the bottles that Arizona Tea come in,42 oz. and the 16 oz. they both have wide mouth and are brown colored Pet plastic. My only concern is the label which is hard to get off the 16 0z bottle, worried that some one might mistake it for a Arizona Green tea Drink.

Those tea bottles are the harder plastic, if I'm not mistaken. They do work, but harder to squeeze air out.

Yes they are hard, you can squeeze a little, more than you could with glass, and more solid in the hand when you pour the chems out than the thinner flimsy plastic bottles.

PETE = PET


PET is the generally used chemical abbreviation. And also is used as recycling code on bottles etc.
Though in parts of the world the recycling code PETE is used.

It is regarded as "hard". Though indeed, due to different material thickness bottles can be either stiff or compressible.

(Common here are PET bottles without any recycling code, as they are deposit bottles, and single-use nevertheless.)

I love thrift store 1 liter Nalgene bottles. Only $1. They're polycarbonate.

Keep in mind that PC is less resistant than PET.
PC gets corroded up to cracking by strong alkali even in high dilution.

AgX, so the bottles I have (Arizona Tea) do have the triangle with the 1 in the middle, do you think they are good air tight bottles for developers and such ? And are they PET? They also have Pete stamped on them.


Mike

PETE=PET=#1 plastic

PET has its detractors but none of them actually use it. Those who use it report excellent keeping properties of their solutions including developers

I use PET peanut butter jars. The larger sizes hold a liter, and the plastic lids don't rust. I only store working solutions of paper developer and fixer though. I use wine bladders for film developer, or liquid concentrate.

BetterSense said:

I use PET peanut butter jars. The larger sizes hold a liter, and the plastic lids don't rust. I only store working solutions of paper developer and fixer though. I use wine bladders for film developer, or liquid concentrate.

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I do the same. I have a smaller set marked for 1 and 2 rolls of 35mm film in the Paterson tank and a larger set for use for 4x5 in a Combi Plan.