Cheap glass bottles

[photojeff3200]

I found a great source for amber/clear/blue glass bottles. Not lab grade quality glass but excellent storage bottles. No minimum orders too!
examples; 1000ml amber bottle $2.08
250ml amber bottle $.73

You get the idea.
Jeff

http://www.specialtybottle.com

[John Kasaian]

Thanks!
I still have a more than adequate supply of amber bottles courtesy of a pharmacist who saved his old Robitussin syrup bottles for me back in the 1970s, but if I lost them all I'd need more so this is good info to know!

[Ari]

Since we're on the subject, I went to the local thrift store today, looking for some glass bottles for wet plate chemicals.
For $5, I bought a variety of larger bottles, all between 750mL and 1,5L in size.
I had no such luck with smaller bottles, though.

[Kevin Crisp]

I've been using their bottles for years, quality is great, the tops seal and so far they don't wear out.

[dave_whatever]

I keep my E6 chems in 1 pint (550ml) beer bottles with vacuum stoppers in them. As I was buying the beer anyway the bottles were free. And if I need some more, disposing of the beer is no hardship. For very small bottles I have the ones my kids paracetamol medicine comes in.

For 750ml bottles drink some wine. If you need larger then go onto magnums of champagne, jeroboams etc.

[photojeff3200]

I used to use vodka and gin bottles to store wet plate chemicals. However, the last time I did this was with an absinthe bottle. I cleaned it with denatured alcohol but starting having issues with the chemical I put in it. After dumping it out I inspected the bottle and found thick slime on the inside of the bottle. After that I decided to stop being cheap with the recycled bottles. There are some expensive chemicals that go into those things!
Good call on the beer bottles Dave, here's another website I found with great prices for beer bottles, some with the EZ cap attached.

http://morebeer.com/category/beer-bo...equipment.html

[dsphotog]

My favorite screw top, quart size, brown bottle is $1.95.... comes full of Coors Light...
When I'm done with the bottle, it's still worth 5 cents !
Bargain!

[Peter Collins]

Now, seriously.

4-liter brown glass bottles are free for the asking at environmental labs. That's how I got mine. Smaller (1-liter) available, too.

[Harold_4074]

Those brown glass reagent bottles (and the clear white ones as well) are normally made of a hard. low-solubility glass that won't leach into the contents. Great containers if you can find them.

Consumer-grade bottles are typically a softer glass, although unless you are storing Rodinal for years fragility is probably more of an issue than solubility.

[Tin Can]

Late to the game again, and I just bought 4 dusty brown bottles from B&H. At least I got free shipping.

Perhaps I can assume they are clean...inside.