So i was slightly worried about buying these after reading the reviews. Needed some buckets to make ice for our shave machine, and these looked perfect. But other reviews were filled with horror stories about some of the buckets being stuck together. I got mine, and all the buckets came apart fine except 2. So here's the deal-if you have ever had 5 gallon buckets like from HD stacked inside each other, its the SUCTION that makes the darn things hard to separate. Picture a big syringe like for sucking out fluid in your car or whatever. If you put your finger over the end, you can't pull the plunger up from the syringe. You can't expand air! These are the same way. Its NOT that the buckets are mysteriously fused together/melted together/or whatever. There is air between the 2 bottoms, and the seal is tight around the outside, so there is no way in Hawaii you are going to pull them apart. Don't use a vice grips, channel locks, etc and try to muscle them apart-not the smart way to do it. Raid your wife's drawers and find a frosting spreader thang like in my picture. Push it down between the buckets as far as you can and start working your way all around the circumference of the buckets where they meet. Don't try to pry or wedge them apart-just simply go around the buckets. Once you get the spreader knife down to the bottom and you can easily go all the way around, you have broken the air tight seal and the knife will get easier and easier to glide around between the buckets. After about 5-10 times around the horn (with the blade all the way at the bottom), they will separate. Easy cheesy!!! Hope that helps everyone who receives some sticky ones :)
Rating:
[5 of 5 Stars!]