Customer Reviews

Gamma Seal Lid - ASSORTED

5 star:		(23)
4 star:		(4)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(4)

 

 

This is a great product. I wish I had bought some sooner. The ring "snaps" on to the top of a 5 gallon bucket with the help of a rubber mallet. Thats the most difficult part. Place the bucket on a concrete floor as you need to strike hard to seat the ring. Don't worry it won't break. After that you can fill the bucket and screw on the lid. You now have an excellent water proof and air tight storage container. Fill it with dry goods for pest proof storage in a basement or anything you want to keep dry on a boat or camping trip. The best part is you can get at the contents without a lid lifter or hurting your fingers, just unscrew the lid.

I purchased these to store some dried beans from our garden. I was originally skeptical that one could turn regular buckets into a sealed container. We have always had trouble with "little friends" getting into our storage which is why we have not generally tried to store our excess - however we had such a good year we decided to try again. I tested them for leaks with water and even overpressure with an air compressor. If you seat the seals carefully and tap them home with a rubber mallet, they are great. I would also suggest a little Vaseline on the seals to insure they don't dry out and make good contact. If you don't go crazy you will not contaminate your storage and it will not go rancid like veg. oil will.

Tips, place the bucket on a hard surface. Clean the buckets first in and if you can, steam sterilize them. Wash the Gamma Seals at the same time. Start on one side with someone holding the other side down so it does not pop back on you as you hammer. Firmly drive the rim down but don't try to pound it down like a nail. Firm not hard.

Half of my five gallon food storage buckets had these lids, half did not. The ones that did not have gamma sealed lids (beans, lentils, corn meal) were infested by bugs! The ones with gamma sealed lids; white sugar, flour, oatmeal and brown sugar, kept the bugs out!!! The lids are amazingly easy to open whenever I needed to bake, while still staying sealed fresh. I'm buying more!

Please check your lids when you receive them. 4 of 8 lids I have purchased, from two separate orders, using "SCS Collectibles" have either had broken or missing inner seal lids. Check out my picture I posted on the product description.

The first order from "SCS Collectibles" one of two lids shipped with a broken inner seal. The seal was laying in the boxes looking like a long noodle. The other lid was solid and appeared fine so I returned the broken lid and went ahead and purchased 6 more from Amazon using the same vendor.

This seal is crucial to keep out water. Why take all the time, spend all the money, only to find out that your stored item is wet and moldy since your container was missing a seal? That makes your preparation futile. You might as well spend less money and by the regular snap on lids for the buckets from Home Depot. There actually MORE waterproof then a defective Gamma Seal lid as the Gamma design (with a missing inner seal) will pool water on top of the bucket and slowly let it leak in. The Home Depot ones have a lip that fit around the bucket keeping the larger critters out (probably not ants/small bugs) and making the bucket splash proof. Home Depot lid link -[...] Less then a buck.

The Gamma Seal with an intact seal is a WONDERFUL product. I'm not really knocking the product when it is complete and with no broken parts. I would give it 4 stars if not 5. The 1 star is simply to get your attention so you check to make sure your lid has the inner seal.

Now before you rant about my rant I know that this area is for reviews of products, not distributors/vendors. My gut is that this inner seal is a weak area of the product and I just want everyone to be aware of it. If your like me you spent a couple of hundred hard earned dollars getting ready. Mylar bags, )2 absorbers, desiccant bags, plastic buckets, not to mention the bean/rice whatever it is your going to store.

I have a backyard flock of chickens and had been using an old five gallon paint bucket(meticulously cleaned, of course)to store their feed outdoors near their coop. It was a pain having to pry open the snap-on lid each time we wanted to refill the hanging feeder so I bought one of these. I LOVE it! Now all we have to do is spin the lid off, scoop the feed out, then spin the lid closed. That's it, no prying, no tools required, no nothing. It seals tightly against weather and water. I have used it through the winter and summer in Texas and it has never been inside... it stays outdoors through ice, snow, 105 degree summer sun, etc. Buy one, you can't go wrong.

Gamma lids are awesome little inventions. I use them to store grains for my bread making along with anything else that I don't want water or critters in. They are easy to use and the lids come off easily when I need to get into the buckets. I will keep buying these babies for all of my storage needs.

I am new to food storage but these lids are fantastic. They work on any kind of food grade bucket. You can get bulk grain, beans, rice, pasta, etc. at Sam's or anywhere for your storage plan. You can talk the local restaurants into giving you several used food grade buckets out of the kitchen. Take them home and scrub them out with bleach, dry and then snap on the Gamma Lid. So your only expense is the lids. The center of the lid spins out so you have easy access to the bulk food for a meal if you want to cook out of your stock. Or you can seal the food in and toss in an oxygen absorber to really seal it down for long term storage.

I don't know yet if these things make an airproof seal but I do know that they go on the 5 gal.pail exactly the way the directions say & that's always a good sign.I bought 2 food grade pail's & tried to macho the lid's on with just my hand's,no way,so I get out a hammer & start hammering (with the rubber hammer handle,not the steel head)at one point on the lid & then made my way around the lid.It went on so easily I had to check it to see if the lid was seated all the way.Yes it was,so,fill it up with flour & seed's,all my baking stuff which can sit around for 4 or 5 month's while I'm out traveling & next time I'm home I'll let you know if the sunflower seed's get rancid or not.

This product is not cheap but it is fantastically utilitarian, turning a 5-gallon bucket into a semi-permanent, resealable container. I really like these lids. You can even color code them!

WHen looking at the title It reads Gamamma Seal Seal Lid assorted . To me that meant that there would be several in assorted colors, Right? I did receive a nice Gamma Seal lid But There was just one that came and it was Black. There was nowhere in th description to choose a color or anything saying there would be just 1. I know this may seem pety but assorted means more than 1. The picture even shows 5 different colors. Sorry