Gents, I have a hefty order from MrSnuff on the way, and I’m looking to order some jars and vials from one of the packaging sites I’ve seen mentioned here to help keep everything fresh. I’m sure this varies a lot by snuff type and how densely it is packed, but does anyone have a rough rule of thumb for how much snuff by weight will fit in a given size container? For example, how many grams of a “typical” snuff would it take to fill a 1oz/~30mL container? etc etc… I’m still new enough to snuff that I don’t really have any empty snuff boxes yet, so I can’t figure it out that way. Also, for containers I know I have heard that glass is best, but are the plastic caps that come on a lot of glass vials and jars suitable for semi-long-term storage (say, up to several years)? Thanks!
A 30 ml container will fit 30 grams of water, I don’t know EXACTLY the density of snuff but wheat flour is roughly half (.48) the volume per weight as water, so you could get almost 2X as much snuff as water in the same volume sized container, thus 55g or so… In regards to the cap issue, look for the caps that have a gasket in them, plastic or not.
I read this and became curious about the density of a powder versus water and how that would relate to answering the question at hand. Of course the moisture content would have an effect as well, but in the volumes we are speaking of I don’t think it would be noticeable. Well, my knowledge of physics may be greater than some, and I certainly less than many, and is not nearly to the point of being able to figure out what I would be attempting to solve. Haha. So I decided to use measure and use math… A can of American Scotch (W.E. Garrett in this case) is 1.15 ounces or 32.6 grams. I took rough measurements of the can’s dimensions and came up with a volume of 37 cubic cm. Key word rough, but I am somewhat confident that they measurements will suffice for the purpose of this topic. 37 cubic cm equates to about 1.25 fl ounces. Using the magic of fractions and ratios… 1 fl. ounce/30 mL would make for approximately 30 cubic cm of snuff… which would be about 26 grams… I also thought of it another way: take a full glass of water… No air in there in between all of those water molecules… There is a certain amount of gas that can diffuse into a liquid, but not enough to affect the measurements. Now fill the same glass with any common powder… flour/flower, snuff, confectioner’s sugar… whatever. Sure, there is some level of moisture content in the powder… but there is also a TON of air space in there, no matter how much you can compact the powder. The density of the powder just doesn’t seem logically greater than that of water. There! Did I do that right? haha. It’s 2:30 in the morning, I may be WAY off.
@smreno77 someone has too much time on their hands hehe
@indiansnuff Never enough time it would seem. Definitely and overactive sense of curiosity and wonder though. Now if I could only channel that into something functional.
Scratch that! I was indeed waaaaaaay off… I recalculated. @Ivan was spot-on it seems.
Interesting, thanks. I should probably also measure the glass jar I nearly filled with 20g of Hedges… guessing it is about an ounce, but need to check. Takeaway for me here is that I probably want a fair mix of primarily 1/4, 1/2, 1, and 2 oz jars/vials, depending on how much I want to keep transferring snuff from jar to jar.
I buy 2 oz jars they hold 25 up to 50 grams easy. handles my storage needs
@basement_shaman Thanks, that helps. I think the jar I put the 20g of Hedges in is 50mL/1.7oz. The 20g of Hedges filled that jar pretty full, but that is one of the fluffier snuffs I have. Even as I get into snuff more, I still don’t think I’ll be a super heavy user on a daily basis, as I can’t snuff at work, so I doubt I will average much more than 50 pinches (~5-7g) a week total, of perhaps 3 or 4 snuffs. I may have to try getting say, some 50mL or 2oz jars for more long term storage and some 1/4 or 1/2 oz vials for day-to-day use.