rubber tubing

[Deleted User] · 25-06-2019 3:33pm #1

just putting a quick question out there... where could a person (me) get thin rubber tubing, a couple of mm in diameter. I can order it online but will have to wait 3 working days etc. It would be great to get it this evening..

its for flushing the print head on an ink-jet printer, I have just watched a youtube video on the handiest way to do this. You attach one end to the nozzle of the print head chamber, and the other to a syringe (without the needle). You flush the print head by pulling and pushing the solution through the chamber via the syringe.

Not your normal AH thread, I know

Grayson · 25-06-2019 3:36pm

A shop near where you live/work depending on where you live/work?

kneemos · 25-06-2019 4:01pm

Your steam iron might have one. Or a kids water gun.

Don't think there's an aisle for 2mm rubber tubing.

Tokyo · 25-06-2019 4:40pm

Bike shop. You used to be able to get it for sealing bike valves. They may have some lying around.

mad muffin · 25-06-2019 4:41pm

Your nearest gimp shop should have them. They use them for vodka enemas.

Timberrrrrrrr · 25-06-2019 4:42pm

[Deleted User] wrote: »

just putting a quick question out there... where could a person (me) get thin rubber tubing, a couple of mm in diameter. I can order it online but will have to wait 3 working days etc. It would be great to get it this evening..

its for flushing the print head on an ink-jet printer, I have just watched a youtube video on the handiest way to do this. You attach one end to the nozzle of the print head chamber, and the other to a syringe (without the needle). You flush the print head by pulling and pushing the solution through the chamber via the syringe.

Not your normal AH thread, I know

These days it's probably cheaper to just buy a new printer.

kneemos · 25-06-2019 4:57pm

Thin electrical cable,if you can pull the wire out

Tacitus Kilgore · 25-06-2019 5:00pm

How many mm diameter?

Motor factors will have 10/8/6/4mm ID tube, maybe more sizes

Cee-Jay-Cee · 25-06-2019 5:04pm

Yeah right OP, of course it’s for flushing out an inkjet cartridge...we all believe you ya durty fcuker!!

YFlyer · 25-06-2019 5:05pm

Where do you live?

Try asking a technician, PhD student or lecturer in science or engineering department in close by college or university.

There be tubing from hplc instrument that may do the job.

Tacitus Kilgore · 25-06-2019 5:18pm

Any lego technic lying sets around? use the little vac pipes from one of those

Fr_Dougal · 25-06-2019 6:46pm

Something like this?

corner of hells · 25-06-2019 7:00pm

[Deleted User] wrote: »

just putting a quick question out there... where could a person (me) get thin rubber tubing, a couple of mm in diameter. I can order it online but will have to wait 3 working days etc. It would be great to get it this evening..

its for flushing the print head on an ink-jet printer, I have just watched a youtube video on the handiest way to do this. You attach one end to the nozzle of the print head chamber, and the other to a syringe (without the needle). You flush the print head by pulling and pushing the solution through the chamber via the syringe.

Not your normal AH thread, I know

I can trade you some , I just have to get it out of A&E past security.

What have you got to trade ?
I'm looking for a magazine of an MG34 , a real one now , none your replica ****.

[Deleted User] · 27-06-2019 2:17pm

Tacitus Kilgore wrote: »

How many mm diameter?

Motor factors will have 10/8/6/4mm ID tube, maybe more sizes

thanks for the tip. I got sorted out, I hadn't thought of the motor factors.

thanks to everyone else for the suggestions

(now where did I put that crystal meth recipe...)

rubber tubing

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