pipette

[belg]

Hey guys I was reading some of the older posts and came accross one how to apply glue/water mixture.Where do you get a pipette? Is it like a chemist's tool or something?

 

[jkristia]

I found them at Michaels Art and Craftstore here in Los Angeles area, and they are called eye-dropper

Jesper

 

[Vic]

Here's a pic of some teflon pipettes....these came from a supply house that sold lab supplies that was going out of business.

 

[Drew1125]

The best thing I've found for mixing, storing, & applying 50/50 white glue & water, is just an Elmer's glue bottle.

 

[billk]

Eye droppers will work, but a pipette is just a rigid tube of some kind. Picture a drinking straw, only smaller. Put one end in the liquid to be transferred, put your finger over the other end, pull it out and put it where you want the liquid to go, and take your finger off the end. Viola.

 

[Gary Pfeil]

belg, I don't know where in NJ you are, but pipettes like the ones shown by Vic are sold at F&M Hobby in Denville, I get mine there.

 

[RaiderCTE]

sounds like one of those coffee stir/ straws. Heck you can go to the gas station on the corner and pick up a hand full of those and a cup of coffee. Sounds good for adding a little glue to the base of my trees. The elmer's glue bottle sometimes is a little wide but that is what I usually use.

 

[shamus]

I just use an Eye dropper, takes ages LOL

Shamus

 

[MasonJar]

I use these. With the 20 gauge needle on, the 50/50 mix comes out in smallish drops, and will hang off the end of the needle until you touch it to ballast or whatever you're gluing down. Advantage is you can control the rate really well, and stop whenever you need to just by releasing pressure on the plunger.

See: http://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.asp?SID=&ccurrency=1&page=20003&category=1,110,42967

Andrew