Thank you, thank you and thank you again Plunker. I appreciate pure and complete simpleness which the four pages of instructions that came with the canner seamed to lack. I wish Ives-Way would have had you write the instructions for them. Now all I need to know is where locally I can get more tin cans for this canner at a reasonable cost. I hear there is a canner in Port Angeles! Does anyone any info on them? Maybe there is a source closer to Whidbey? Thanks again.