Menda bottles

In Conservation DistList Instance: 17:11 Tuesday, July 15, 2003
I <simon.moore<-a t->hants< . >gov< . >uk> wrote

>I am having problems with Menda bottles--the sort that you push down
>on the lid and a small amount of solvent comes into the dish-like
>receptacle under the hinged cover.  After a few months they stop
>working. ...

For those who might have problems with Menda bottles not sucking up
fluid onto their lidded pans any more:  There is a steel ball just
above the valve where the plastic pipe is attached--if it doesn't
rattle when shaken then it has become stuck.  A pointed implement up
the tube will unstick it and it works again.

    **** Moderator's comments: My apologies for the delay in posting
    a response, caused by a clerical error on my part.

Simon Moore, MIScT, FLS, AMUKIC,ACR,
Conservator of Natural Sciences
Hampshire County Council
Recreation and Heritage Department
Museums and Archives Service
+44 1962 826737


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