Containers & Measuring Cups
Dilution is the cheapest variable in this trade to get right and the most common one to get wrong. A prespray mixed by eye is a prespray that cannot be repeated, and a result that cannot be repeated is not a process — it is luck.
Measured decanting also protects the operator and the customer. Chemistry decanted into an unmarked bottle is a WHS problem long before it is a cleaning problem.
The range covers measuring cups in 60 ml, 120 ml, 240 ml and 480 ml; spotting bottles in 120 ml, 480 ml and 946 ml with caps and flip-top lids; storage and conical bottles in 500 ml and 1 litre; Hydro-Force sprayer replacement bottles including the 5 quart side-fill bottle for the PCU01 AS68A; the Sapphire wide mouth jug; an 18.9 litre (5 gallon) square headpack truckmount chemical jug; the Leather Master foaming bottle; and an insulated softside bag and single belt pack for carrying spotters on the job.
How to choose
Size the cup to the smallest dose you measure, not the largest. Measuring 60 ml in a 480 ml cup is guesswork. If your spotters dose in tens of millilitres, the small cups are the ones that matter.
Square jugs beat round ones in a van. The 18.9 litre square headpack stows against a bulkhead without rolling and wastes less shelf width than a round drum of the same capacity.
Match the bottle to the chemistry, not just the volume. Solvent spotters attack some plastics and perish standard seals. Where a bottle is sold for a specific product or sprayer, that is usually why.
Label every decanted bottle. An unlabelled spotting bottle on a customer site is a compliance failure, and a bottle that has held two different products is a rewetting complaint waiting to happen.
Buy sprayer bottles as spares, not replacements. A cracked bottle mid-job ends the job. They are inexpensive enough to carry two.
Chemistry to decant is in Spotting Chemicals, the sprayers these fit are in Sprayers, and the metering tips and seals that go with them are in Sprayer Parts.
