Thanks for the advice, I just wanted to point out before I start replying to the direct posts, I was looking for both a pump bottle for alcohol to clean off flux, and a needle applicator bottle for APPLYING liquid flux, something like this:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001IUSK3A/Any recommendations or opinions on something like that? I know that Medna makes that took, but again, hard to get my hands on them for a reasonable cost when you factor in shipping and all that on top. Come to think of it, how would I prevent such a bottle from spilling while in storage? Do any of them have any sort of way to seal/close them when not in use?
Oh, and speaking of the Medna pump bottles, I saw two types, one that let the liquid slowly seep back into the bottle and ones that do not to avoid contamination. Do I have to worry at all about any flux residue from when I dip the brush in the alcohol from causing any problems if it seeps back into the rest of the alcohol? Or is that not an issue?
ESD safe is meaningless here.
You can find some on digikey: https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/menda-easybraid/35283/2779492
Yeah, I think Digikey was the cheapest shipping I was able to find. Though the bottles themselves are still rather pricy and the shipping still isn't cheap either. Seems really hard to get a hold of these as an individual purchase without paying out the nose for the privilege. One of the official distributors I tried on top of high shipping fees wanted to charge me an additional fee on top for my total being below $50.
This was one of the best I've used, its lasted 2 years so far: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08XZH4PPW/
Thanks, will look into that one, at the very least as a temporary one for now. Was hard to find ANY ones that seemed decent on Amazon, they were all full of complaints about them breaking/leaking. I know any product will have some 1/5 reviews but they seemed far more than usual for these kinds of bottles than most reviews I tend to see on there.
US Plastic Corp has a huge range of bottles, including laboratory and dispensing bottles: https://www.usplastic.com/catalog/default.aspx?catid=469&clickid=leftnav-icons
Cole-Parmer is another source of laboratory stuff: https://www.coleparmer.com/search?N=CPDomestic&Ntt=bottles&Ns=P_ItemSortCPVH|1&Nf=category%7cBottles+and+Jars&Format=json&Rgn=P_ISUUSA&Rlg=en-US&Uty=dflt&Keyword=bottles&searchterm=bottles
Both will sell to individuals.
The ones in that first link cost considerably even more than the Menda bottles, despite looking like the same thing. And I could not find either the pump or needle bottles in the second one.
Cole-Parmer has a bricks-and-mortar store in Illinois:
Hmm, that's not too far, I could take a look. Though if their inventory is not much different than their website it won't help much. I'll give them a call.
I'm partial to Medna Pure-Touch, but if you want something easier to find, look for fingernail polish remover pumps.
They're a very similar pump bottle, for a fraction of the cost - and more importantly, you can probably find them locally/retail. Nail polish remover is usually acetone, the bottles & pump are made to handle that solvent (at which point either Isopropanol or Ethanol is no problem)
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I have been buying the MENDA "One-Touch" as needed from Mouser, but Amazon has them for the same price.
https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Menda/35305?qs=El1T93pd01%252Bf%2FL90526tqQ%3D%3D
https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Menda/35309?qs=El1T93pd0196ijYakIw00Q%3D%3D
https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Menda/35312?qs=El1T93pd01%252B587rvK0O%252BRg%3D%3D
Sometimes the stainless steel ball in the pump valve does not seat correctly but this is easy to fix by removing the clip on the stem and cleaning the ball and seat. Other than that and the easy to replace tube falling off, these dispensers last forever. The plastic tube can be replaced with a length of heat shrink tubing.
Yeah, I was trying to search Amazon for generic pump bottles or even ones made for nail polish remover/acetone, but like I said, all I could find were ones with an abnormally large number of 1/5 reviews. Many of them were even complaints that bottles listed for acetone would in fact get destroyed if you put acetone in them. That's why I made this thread, to try to find actual good ones, either from Amazon or elsewhere... that won't cost me an arm and a leg. The Menda ones look like the best but on top of the bottle costing $20-25 it's hard to get without paying another $10 or so for shipping, if I would get the bottle at retail then the price tag would not be too bad, but coupled with shipping that is about half their cost it's just a bit too much for a small bottle like that.
The ones being sold on Amazon seem to be priced up to around $30, and they are being sold by random third parties so I am skeptical if they might not just be expensive fakes.