Fredrick Paget on mon 26 aug 02
I have been looking for one of these ever since I saw one being used at a
factory in China.
Recently at the Amori Wood Fife Festival in Japan, I got a hold of a
Japanese Shimpo catalog that shows two of them of different sizes and I was
able to buy one of each at Tokyu Hands Department store in Tokyo.
They look like they might be originally designed as enema or douche devices.
I found that the small one fits a basketball/soccer ball inflater needle
very well. You just have to file off the tip of the needle just back of the
side hole in the tip and you have a fine tool for corda seca.
The bigger one is about right for slip application.
I wonder if Shimpo imports them into the USA or Canada.
If not I wonder if they might be found in medical supply stores?
Fred Paget
>In several books I have read on slip application, I see used a bulb syringe
>with what appears to be a blunt steel needle. This applies mainly to
>articles on fine-line slip trailing and tubelining for tiles.
>
>Anybody know where I might purchase something like this?
>Tig
From Fred Paget, Marin County, California, USA
Dupre Mr Marcy M on mon 26 aug 02
In several books I have read on slip application, I see used a bulb syringe
with what appears to be a blunt steel needle. This applies mainly to
articles on fine-line slip trailing and tubelining for tiles.
Anybody know where I might purchase something like this? I currently use a
small plastic bottle with a fine tip, cut at an angle. Problem is that it
quickly runs out of the tubelining slip, right in the middle of a job--often
in the middle of a line.
Thanks in advance for any and all assistance,
Tig
in Springfield, VA where a little rain isn't nearly enough
Dannon Rhudy on mon 26 aug 02
At 09:56 AM 08/26/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>In several books I have read on slip application, I see used a bulb syringe
>with what appears to be a blunt steel needle......
>Anybody know where I might purchase something like this? ........
These are just ordinary bulb syringes with a basketball inflator
needle pushed into the tip. Cut the end of the needle off, so that
slip will come out the tip instead of out the sides of the needle.
Works well.
regards
Dannon Rhudy
I currently use a
>small plastic bottle with a fine tip, cut at an angle. Problem is that it
>quickly runs out of the tubelining slip, right in the middle of a job--often
>in the middle of a line.
>
>Thanks in advance for any and all assistance,
>
>Tig
>in Springfield, VA where a little rain isn't nearly enough
>
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Jennifer Buckner on mon 26 aug 02
>In several books I have read on slip application, I see used a bulb syringe
>with what appears to be a blunt steel needle. ................
>Anybody know where I might purchase something like this?
See the Tucker's Pottery Supplies Inc. ad on p. 119 of the June/July/Aug
issue of Ceramics Monthly. Or check out
Jennifer
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Christena Schafale on mon 26 aug 02
Highwater Clays carries these.
http://www.highwaterclays.com/handtools/cooltools2.html#pp
They really are nice. Also, as I recently learned, they are great for
applying glaze to Currie glaze grids -- much more controllable than the
syringe.
Chris
At 09:56 AM 8/26/02 -0400, you wrote:
>In several books I have read on slip application, I see used a bulb syringe
>with what appears to be a blunt steel needle. This applies mainly to
>articles on fine-line slip trailing and tubelining for tiles.
>
>Anybody know where I might purchase something like this? I currently use a
>small plastic bottle with a fine tip, cut at an angle. Problem is that it
>quickly runs out of the tubelining slip, right in the middle of a job--often
>in the middle of a line.
>
>Thanks in advance for any and all assistance,
>
>Tig
>in Springfield, VA where a little rain isn't nearly enough
>
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Ted Whittemore on mon 26 aug 02
Basketball (or any inflated sports ball) needle.
Cut off the end with the holes in the side.
Stick the threaded end, intended for a bicycle pump, in an ear bulb
syringe.
Works very well.
Use a paper clip to plug when full.
Ted Whittemore
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Sent: Monday, August 26, 2002 9:56 AM
To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
Subject: Syringe--Hypodermic for Slip Application
In several books I have read on slip application, I see used a bulb syringe
with what appears to be a blunt steel needle. This applies mainly to
articles on fine-line slip trailing and tubelining for tiles.
Anybody know where I might purchase something like this? I currently use a
small plastic bottle with a fine tip, cut at an angle. Problem is that it
quickly runs out of the tubelining slip, right in the middle of a job--often
in the middle of a line.
Thanks in advance for any and all assistance,
Tig
in Springfield, VA where a little rain isn't nearly enough
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vince pitelka on mon 26 aug 02
> In several books I have read on slip application, I see used a bulb
syringe
> with what appears to be a blunt steel needle.
> Anybody know where I might purchase something like this?
What you want are ordinary ball inflating needles (for inflating basketballs
etc.), available from Walmart in the sporting goods section, or from any
sporting goods store. Get better quality ones from a sporting goods store
if possible, because the threaded portion will be brass, while on the cheap
ones from Walmart it is aluminum and corrodes quickly.
You will notice that the business end of the needle is rounded, and the hole
is on the side just before the end. Straighten out a paper clip, and poke
it all the way in to the tip of the needle from the threaded end. With this
paper clip in place, using an ordinary set of diagonal wire cutters, snip
off the tip, getting rid of portion with the rounded end and the side hole.
The paper clip prevents the tube from collapsing when you snip it. Remove
the remaining paper clip, and lightly sand the end of the tube to get rid of
any burr. Go to your local pharmacy and buy an ear syringe bulb, but be
sure to get the kind that is all rubber - not the kind that has a plastic
tip. Get the largest size you can find. Snip back the rubber tip of the
bulb a little at a time, trying the big end of the inflating needle in the
bulb each time, and stop when the needle is a snug fit in the end of the
bulb. Remove the tip when you fill the bulb. Keep a straightened paper
clip with a loop handle bent in one end - it makes a good tool for clearing
out the tube if it gets clogged.
For another improvement on the above bulb, find someone in the medical
professions who can get you some 1/16" inside diameter tubing, such as used
in intravenous hookups. Cut a one-inch length of this tubing, and install
it on the end of the ball inflating needle. With the tubing installed, you
can drag the tip right against the clay while laying down slip, without
raking up base clay.
Good luck -
- Vince
Vince Pitelka
Appalachian Center for Crafts
Tennessee Technological University
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Steve Mills on tue 27 aug 02
At the risk of treading on someone's tender susceptibilities; the most
commonly available bulb slip trailer in the UK is in fact a rectal
enema! They have plastic nozzles which are rather coarse (!), but this
can be rectified (!) by super-gluing a piece of thin electric wire cover
(minus the wire) in the hole.
In message , Dannon Rhudy writes
>At 09:56 AM 08/26/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>>In several books I have read on slip application, I see used a bulb syri=
>nge
>>with what appears to be a blunt steel needle......
>>Anybody know where I might purchase something like this? ........
>
>These are just ordinary bulb syringes with a basketball inflator
>needle pushed into the tip. Cut the end of the needle off, so that
>slip will come out the tip instead of out the sides of the needle.
>Works well.
>
>regards
>
>Dannon Rhudy
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> I currently use a
>>small plastic bottle with a fine tip, cut at an angle. Problem is that =
>it
>>quickly runs out of the tubelining slip, right in the middle of a job--o=
>ften
>>in the middle of a line.
>>
>>Thanks in advance for any and all assistance,
>>
>>Tig
>>in Springfield, VA where a little rain isn't nearly enough
>>
>>________________________________________________________________________=
>___
>___
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>>
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>melpots@pclink.com.
>>
>>
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Steve Mills
Bath
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