Trying to buy a syringe....

[Brandane]

This week I have been trying to buy a syringe; to make bleeding the brakes on my mountain bike easier. I don't think I look like a heroin addict, but the way the local Chemist shop assistants look at you when you ask for a syringe makes me wonder . They disappear through to the back shop, obviously to seek advice from the boss, then return with the bad news that they don't sell them. Thing is; if I WAS a drug addict then the NHS would be throwing as many syringes at me as I wanted (via said Chemist shop)!

Went to the local vets as they must have old syringe tubes they don't want....... Wrong; they're not allowed to pass them on "for health and safety reasons".

Anybody know where I can buy a single syringe tube? Have looked on-line but they only seem to sell them by the truck load (well ok, a boxfull).

 

[Jerry Atrik]

ASDA first aid kit contains one with a sterilized needle as well . Why ? Hav'nt the foggiest .

 

[ufkacbln]

ASDA first aid kit contains one with a sterilized needle as well . Why ? Hav'nt the foggiest .

Some fist aid kits are designed for use where standards are not as high as ours, often needles and syringes are reused after a wash and sterilisation in a steam bath.... hence sterile syringes are a good thing to carry.

 

[ufkacbln]

Back on track...... most bleed kits will contain one as will ink refill kits for printer cartridges.

 

[numbnuts]

http://www.bluehorizonmedicalsupplies.btinternet.co.uk/syringesandneedles.htm

 

[Leah]

A farm store will stock them for livestock vaccination etc

 

[slowmotion]

Google "luer lock syringe" and you will get people like this....good luck.


http://www.sylmasta.com/acatalog/Online_Catalogue_Syringes__Needles__Containers_92.html

 

[Hacienda71]

1000's of them on ebay

 

[zacklaws]

Fishing tackle shop's sell them, or they used to.

 

[Sambu]

A farm store will stock them for livestock vaccination etc

Bingo!
BIG sizes too and cheap!

 

[Brandane]

Thanks for the links, have now ordered a single syringe from an agricultural supplier! Think it's supposed to be used for feeding lambs or something, but hopefully will turn out to be useful for bleeding brakes.

 

[PaulB]

We've got hundreds in the boot of my missuses car. She uses them and distributes them all the time and consequently, we are never without a syringe in this house. The thing is, the only time I can remember one being used in the house involved her chasing me round to give me a Tetanus shot I'd picked up from the GP for her to inject and the kids were rocking about laughing thinking I was simulating fear from the needle.

 

[Globalti]

I got into bad trouble at school for filling a syringe (my dad was a doctor) with margarine and squirting it all over the collar and shoulders of the school dickhead.