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Hello to all.
l just thought I’d pass this on as I don’t think I’m the only one that runs into situations where I just can’t find the material I what/need for a project locally.
One day while washing up I noticed the metal spring in the pump soap dispenser and had an epiphany. That’s water biased and the springs doesn’t rust! Off to the recycle bin to retrieve that empty hand lotion bottle I’d seen in there.
A lot of the vertical pumped type dispensers have a stainless steel ball bearing and spring in them. Trigger pumps (think Windex etc.) have a SS spring but have switched to plastic valves. A recently defunked coffee percolator yielded 2 SS balls just under 1/4”.
The bottle in the picture is an empty 125 ml eye glass cleaner but the concept it the same.
l just thought I’d pass this on as I don’t think I’m the only one that runs into situations where I just can’t find the material I what/need for a project locally.
One day while washing up I noticed the metal spring in the pump soap dispenser and had an epiphany. That’s water biased and the springs doesn’t rust! Off to the recycle bin to retrieve that empty hand lotion bottle I’d seen in there.
A lot of the vertical pumped type dispensers have a stainless steel ball bearing and spring in them. Trigger pumps (think Windex etc.) have a SS spring but have switched to plastic valves. A recently defunked coffee percolator yielded 2 SS balls just under 1/4”.
The bottle in the picture is an empty 125 ml eye glass cleaner but the concept it the same.