Hey guys, I’m looking for a plastic squeeze bottle I can use to dispense lacquer thinner for cleaning my airbrush and other uses where just a few drops is required. I thought I saw something like this on one of the FSM how-to videos. Does anyone know where to source one?
Thanks!
Chris
I’m not familiar with the suppliers on your side of the pond, but plastic lab wash bottles are perfect for this. these are made from polythene, are resistant to all commons solvents & generally come with a handy pouring spout. I imagine that there are plenty of easily found lab supply sites…
What Milairjounkie says. Here’s a SOURCE for 5 150ml for $14.00. If those aren’t what you want, look around that site - lots to choose from. Also, if you happen to have some Liquitex or Golden retarder, or flow agent bottles around then clean 'em out and use them.
Perfect. Thanks, guys!
Hi - I usually get all my squeezable bottles from Dharma Trading (www.dharmatrading.com/sb2.html) - These will hold most any solvent - I keep Mineral Spirits in them but not 100% sure of lacquer thinner. I haven’t tried that yet. Should be okay but you can send them a note and ask. Good bottles tho and fast shipping. 
I see some solvents stored in polyethylene bottles, so at least PE is resistant to some solvents. I have seen some CA sold in PE bottles, so you might try one of those, and try some lacquer thinner in it when you finish the glue. I’d keep it in a metal container at first until you find out for sure the lacquer thinner you are using is okay in it. I believe several things are sold as laquer thinner so PE may not work for every kind.
Yeah, I’d be curious about this myself. Thanks for that link to the lab bottles! I spray Mr Color a lot with the Leveling Thinner, and while that stuff is completely innocuous the Klean Strip stuff from Home Depot I use to clean the brush afterward has eaten everything I’ve tried it in except glass.
It was fairly funny the first time… I found an awesome source of ultra-cheap plastic mixing cups at the local liquor store, where they sell 250 count bags of cups/lids for jello shots. The Gunze hobby ‘lacquer’ thinner (Mr Leveling Thinner) does’t react with them at all, even leaving some in there for half an hour. Without even thinking about it I put some Klean-Strip lacquer thinner in a cup to have some for q-tip dipping after the session was done, and within seconds had a small puddle of lacquer thinner on my fortunately glass-sheet covered modeling desktop. Ate it like it wasn’t there.
I’d love a bottle able to deliver small amounts of solvent. Looks like some good stuff at that lab supply.
One way to deliver small amounts of a solvent from a glass bottle is to use small diameter, hollow coffee stirrers. Dip it just below the surface- say 1/8 inch below, and put finger over top. That will hold a small amount in the tube. The solvent is released when you release your finger from the top.