What kind of beaker is this?

[Steve Goldstein]

I've had the 4oz/125ml one of these in my darkroom for years:

https://www.usplastic.com/catalog/it...3077&catid=460

It's not glass but polymethylpentene and has so far resisted my best efforts to destroy it. I've knocked it over a number of times but haven't tried dropping it on the tile floor (yet). It was about half the current price when I bought it.

[Richard Wasserman]

Mcmaster Carr has these in both plastic and glass (and calls them graduated cylinders)—https://www.mcmaster.com/graduated-cylinders

[Mark Sawyer]

Found and ordered, thank you! Adding "pharmaceutical" turned out to be the trick, though in my searches I found even the manufacturers have different names for them. Prices ranged from just under $5 to a bit over $400, so I went with the former. I suppose I'm being fussy wanting that particular shape for my wet plate developer, but it just pours in and out so nice!

Thanks again!

[Jac@stafford.net]

I'm being fussy wanting that particular shape for my wet plate developer, but it just pours in and out so nice!

I use one as well, and found that for precise measurement it helped to use a cylindrical graduate to 'calibrate' the pharmaceutical glass to a couple exact measurements and mark them with a small Dremel wheel.

[Mark Sawyer]

I don't have to be that precise, so I just mark a rectangle with a Sharpie, the top of the rectangle for 6x8, the bottom for 5x6. I also find Old Forester Bourbon bottles work well for developer, while square Bombay Gin bottles work best for the silver bath...

[Joe O'Hara]

"Cylinders" are supposed to be "cylindrical"? Sounds like shape-norming to me

Anything that "identifies" as a cylinder is one, these days.

[Jac@stafford.net]

"Cylinders" are supposed to be "cylindrical"? Sounds like shape-norming to me

Anything that "identifies" as a cylinder is one, these days.

Yea, Sponge Bob Square Pants is suing over that.

[Two23]

Must be a South Dakota thing. If Mark wants something shaped like shows, he's not likely to have much luck searching for cylinders.

https://www.medisca.com/products/com...ated-cylinders


Kent in SD

[Jac@stafford.net]

https://www.medisca.com/products/com...ated-cylinders

I sure am not going to argue the decline of English with an excellent contributor from my favorite neighboring state, but 'conical cylinder'? So I'm humbled. We are ok. Thanks for the lesson.

Very Best,
jac

[Drew Wiley]

"Conical cylinders". They're designed so you can put cherries or olives on toothpicks, or perhaps a slice of lemon or lime, and have this with your Dektol cocktail.