I feel dumb for asking... but where do you get your marbles?!?!?

[Disaster_Area]

I've been looking for a couple months for a good source for marbles to top up my developing chemical containers but I've yet to find one. I've tried the toy section of Walmart and other dept stores but it seems kids no longer play with marbles... they don't plug in, light up, need assembly or make noise... well... to tell you the truth I didn't exactly play with my marbles as a kid either... I just kept them in a bag and looked at them once in a while...

... right... anyways... I've tried craft stores, hobby stores and no one sells a decent quantity of them, if they have them at all they just have these tiny bags with half a dozen to a dozen marbles in them... I'd have to buy a ton of those little bags to fill all my bottles...

so does anyone know a good source in Canada for marbles?... I lost all mine years ago and now I find I need them again 🙂

 

[iamzip]

Good luck. I was going to suggest Amazon, but when I went to their Canadian site, I could not find any marbles (they have them on the American site). Are marbles illegal in Canada or something?

 

[Keith]

Small children are very easy to rob ... trouble is finding ones that still play with marbles. :angel:

Like you say if it doesn't beep flash or gyrate they don't want to know about it these days! 😀

 

[kermaier]

Try an aquarium supply store.
Ari

 

[Disaster_Area]

Try an aquarium supply store.
Ari

Brilliant!!! I hadn't thought of that... I guess there's absolutely no reason they have to be round... those oval-ish aquarium pebbles will work great... thanks!

It's true though... every time I went to the kids section of a department store looking for marbles the teenage kid stocking the shelves looked at me like I just asked where the gramophone and stick-and-hoop isle was...

 

[snausages]

first place listed when you google marble sellers: http://www.marblesmarbles.com/

 

[DRabbit]

"glass marbles" in google...

http://www.amazon.com/4-Packs-Colorful-Glass-Marbles/dp/B001MQEU0M

http://www.digitaltruth.com/store/cart/Glass-Marbles-100--p-503.html

http://www.ecrater.com/product.php?pid=2924177

 

[visiondr]

first place listed when you google marble sellers: http://www.marblesmarbles.com/

OK, now I've seen it all ! ;-))

 

[Ducky]

Small decorative stones are available at my local $$ store in bags.

 

[Disaster_Area]

yeah.. I found all those places.. but I really didn't want to order marbles in from another country... I didn't want to pay ridiculous shipping for glass balls... I'm sure my country... my city even should have SOME marbles 🙂

going to hit the pet store tomorrow for some aquarium beads!

 

[robklurfield]

My wife says I've lost my marbles. I think she's right.

Try a "crafts" store that sells junk for paper/silk/real flower rrangingor a florist's shop a. They use clear glass marbles to secure the stems at the bottom of vases.

 

[TWoK]

What exactly is the photographic use for marbles? Please excuse my ignorance.

 

[btgc]

What exactly is the photographic use for marbles? Please excuse my ignorance.

next thing to making shots of them, is to put them into opened bottles of chems to keep level as high as possible to minimize oxidation.

 

[aeolist]

wicked! going to try it on my ilfosol 3 bottle 😀 😀 at last those marbles are going to be put in good use

 

[jarski]

since I've lost mine long ago, this thread is a life saver 😀

 

[Keith]

Used wine cask bladders are an alternative.

For when you loose your marbles that is! 😀

 

[Phantomas]

If you don't find any over there I can send you some from here, although they can be heavy for quick and cheap shipping. The kids here are not as developed, so the stores still carry them.
We should start a "are marbles dead?" thread 🙂

 

[MartinP]

Marbles may, or may not, be dead - but everyone knows you can't flick a Nintendo DS, completely the wrong size and shape, and so fragile ! Totally useless.