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elgecko
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Revised Genlisea pot - Step by Step
« Thread Started on Aug 25, 2004, 9:31pm »

I was not crazy about my other Genlisea pot because of the thin plastic drinking cup I was using. So the past few days I've been looking around and trying to find something sturdier then the thin cup. This is what I came up with.

What I found that look good was a Rubbermaid 1/2 cup container. I believe Glad and another company also had 1/2 cup containers, but the were the same thin plastic as the drinking cup.

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1. I cut the tab off the top which the top of the container snapped onto. I used a pair of tin snips to do this. Then I used an utility knife to cut the remaining plastic as close to the lip as I could.
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2. I then used a sander to smooth it to the lip.
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3. I then placed some tape around the container under the lip which I could follow and make a straight cut using a scroll saw to remove the bottom of the container.
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4. I then used the sander to remove the remaining plastic to the tape line.

5. I then cut the plastic piece that is on the bottom of the container at a craft store. I do not have the package anymore. I think it was in the yarn, knitting area. Bought the large round ones and cut it to fit snug in the bottom of the container. I then used aquarium seal to make sure the plastic piece would not come out.
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6. The finished pots lip resting on the rim of a glass drinking cup.
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7. All I have to do is let my leaf cutting get a little bigger of my Genlisea lobata and transfer it to this new pot and let the traps grow into the water that will be in the glass below.

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Re: Revised Genlisea pot - Step by Step
« Reply #1 on Aug 26, 2004, 10:32am »

That is a realy nice setup you made there. Congrats!

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Re: Revised Genlisea pot - Step by Step
« Reply #2 on Aug 27, 2004, 7:14am »

looks pretty easy.......i could do that at school
thoes old scroll saw's are pretty bumpy and jerky when you fully rev em up hey steve?
nice pot

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Re: Revised Genlisea pot - Step by Step
« Reply #3 on Aug 27, 2004, 9:56am »

MK,
The scroll saw I have now is smooth as silk. The old one would have been bumpy and jerky.
I got a very nice one about 3 years ago with a variable speed control on it when I started to get into making Intarsia.
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