From: ikoltunov@.com (IKoltunov)
Newsgroups: alt.drugs.hard
Subject: Re: What size needle is good for IV?
Date: 3 Dec 1998 04:26:14 GMT

>Am I being astoundingly thick here or something... I don't follow how
>you can make a decent syringe by chucking a pin on the end of
>*anything*??! 
>
>

once upon a time, rigs were not disposable.  They had a glass
barrel, a glass or a metal plunger, and a needle that was either
a bayonet or a friction-fit. The barrel had a male ground-glass
fitting, and the needle had a female (cup-like) coupling which
slipped over it.  Those are the needles which were used with
eyedroppers.  Apparently, eyedroppers were PREFERRED to syringes,
since you didn't need to do anything to register - as soon as the
point was in the vein, the blood-pressure pushed up a little
blossom as an indicator.  To make up for the fact that the
eyedropper's end was not large enough to make a good coupling
with the needle, people wrapped shit around it - usually toilet
paper.


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From: trab@.com
Newsgroups: alt.drugs.hard
Subject: Re: What size needle is good for IV?
Date: Thu, 03 Dec 1998 06:26:19 GMT

In article <19981201230028.21213.00000994@ng44.aol.com>,
  skrewthem@aol.com (SkrewThem) wrote:
> any here ever made a homemade needle with a dropper?

Yes. Back in the old days we used visene(SP?) droppers. They were a
perfect fit and needed no shim. Other old timers made elaborate
devices from baby pacifiers, lots of thread or rubber bands to
hold them together and shims to keep the needle attached. Those
were needed if one had a sufficient jones and needed to do
massive geezes that the store bought droppers wouldn't hold. Hope
that helped. Most common needle size was 26.

 -MC Jones


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