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Last summer it was a bit of a trick getting canning lids....my mom has canned since forever, and also shared her production of tomatoes, jam and salsa with us, so I was quite involved in trying to procure a supply, thankfully with good success.

This year, I've been concerned as well, as the usual sources have "three to a customer" signs and empty shelves, at least for the lids.... fingers crossed for when the harvesting season kicks in.

When transporting two of my scooters from storage a couple of weeks back, I looked at the trailer tires while checking inflation and saw some serious sidewall cracking I hadn't noticed before. Checked the tire age and yeah, it's high time to replace them. Unfortunately, my usual source is out, unless I buy an entire wheel. (Kind of a pattern here...I can buy a glass canning jar with lid and ring, but no lid only...). My auto shop checked on tires and they were over $100. EACH. The last time I'd checked price they were around $65. I'd assumed a COVID-related supply issue, but the store claims there's a rubber shortage. Suddenly I see a connection with canning lids....there's a ring of rubber around the edge. There may be other issues, but I'm assuming there's a problem procuring some component of the product.

So, I either panic and do every thing possible to get what I want, at an exorbitant price, or wait until the supply eventually stabilizes. I've got a couple of months before I need the trailer, and the same for lids. It's kind of a weird feeling....used to hear about lines at markets elsewhere, but this has been the land of plenty, even excess. We've got some "getting used to" to do it seems.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210308-rubber-the-wonder-material-we-are-running-out-of
Car and Driver seems a bit more circumspect.....
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a36312124/tire-shortage-possible/
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Target, Wally, Michael's, the DIY and u-line all have lids ready to rock last I checked

(I too can it up like a mad man)

Just got tires for the missus car. No mention of short. About what I expected for what was bought.

Depending on tire size, 80ish is about rate amigo.
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Until recently I worked for one of the larger US electronics manufacturers in the automotive industry. Courtesy of covid there was a time last year where we couldn't get anything out of China on a timely basis, including product from our own plants. The bug was so bad in some areas that the big name courier services couldn't get drivers for their trucks. Then once it did make it to the port there was nobody to load it.

This year its been microchips, different semiconductors, even some gauges and specialized types of wire.

Get used to it, it'll be a while before this all gets sorted out. Meanwhile some nice people seem to be gouging for the fun of it, profiting from this mess and blaming covid. We actually starting manufacturing some hard to get items ourselves because the suppliers were raising prices and restricting the flow of materials "due to material shortages cause by covid"... we had no problems finding the materials, just problems finding suppliers who weren't playing games to make money from this situation.

Its so nice to have just retired and left that crap behind.
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Dave,

When my Grandmother passed away, she had kept hundreds of glass Mason canning jars from years ago when they were on the farm in Cleveland North Dakota.

In her mind, she never got off the farm. The small backyard in South Minneapolis was all garden.

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Target, Wally, Michael's, the DIY and u-line all have lids ready to rock last I checked
Thanks...those are off my usual shopping circuit, but makes a great excuse for a cross-town scooter ride this noon....

It's weird with the tires in a way, my store has plenty of other sizes on the rack....

Edit: Crap. Target, like everywhere else just has complete sets. Don't have the heart to buy a lid with a jar I have no use for....but then again it's a pretty important component.
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Looks like Amazon may have what you need. Miguel
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Fledermaus, is this what you are looking for?

Amazon Link 1

or these type of rings

Amazon Link 2

Lot of sellers of both types. Hope that helps!
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Looks like Miguel's post broke the forum. I'm investigating why that message is blank.
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jess wrote:
Looks like Miguel's post broke the forum. I'm investigating why that message is blank.
Comes up perfectly in preview after I edited the post and moved things around. Sorry!!
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Miguel wrote:
Comes up perfectly in preview. Sorry!!
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Not your fault. I've taken the liberty of changing the URL tags slightly. It's showing up now. Not sure what went wrong.
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Comes up perfectly in preview after I edited the post and moved things around. Sorry!!
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Looks like its working now but the links are shortened rather than showing the entire URL it shows a shortcut hyperlink.
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Miguel wrote:
Looks like its working now but the links are shortened rather than showing the entire URL it shows a shortcut hyperlink.
I enclosed them with "Amazon Link 1" and "Amazon Link 2" labels, trying to remedy whatever was causing the post to show up blank.

The actual link that gets delivered to the browser when someone clicks on it is quite a bit shorter -- that's the standard behavior for all amazon links at MV.
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I enclosed them with "Amazon Link 1" and "Amazon Link 2" labels, trying to remedy whatever was causing the post to show up blank.

The actual link that gets delivered to the browser when someone clicks on it is quite a bit shorter -- that's the standard behavior for all amazon links at MV.
How'd you enclose them in "Amazon links"
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How'd you enclose them in "Amazon links"
It was a manual process. I just changed the URL tags to this form:
[url=http://somethingorother]Amazon Link 1[/url]
There's nothing special about the term "Amazon Link 1" -- just what I chose in a hurry.

You shouldn't have to do that, so again, not your fault. But one of the Amazon links apparently has some unexpected information in it that made the forum choke. Still not sure why.
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Fledermaus, is this what you are looking for?

Amazon Link 1


That'll do. Thanks!

Seems like there might be some issue with generic vs. brand name lids, but at the moment, beggars can't be choosers. Besides, just picked a ton of strawberries and my ambitious mother is likely to want to can strawberry preserves. Shame if a shortage got in the way.

Funny, just heard the manager of our local Ace Hardware in the next aisle having a rant about corporate profits and shortages of basic essentials, particularly lids. Didn't want to interrupt but was tempted to tell him he was sounding like a damned socialist, lol. Laughing emoticon
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