Luer Lock - Applicator Tips and Dispensers Have A Name

Those precision applicator tips for glue bottles, syringes and dispensers have a name. They are called LUER LOCK, or at least that's the famous brand name. (affiliate) Just searching for the name gets me better results for tips and bottles and syringes.

I used them all the time in college, but never knew their name until now. When I was making architectural models I used them to apply thin streams of glue to the foam-core walls and cardboard roofs. The precise tips let me get clean builds easily. Several shops in that town sold them in a variety of sizes. But it was a college town, so they sold hundreds every semester and the clerks knew what I was looking for when I described the tips or task that I needed them for.

When I moved to a non-college town, I could never find them. I asked for them, described them and offered to buy a case if the store could find them. But all I got was weird looks. Looking for "large bore syringes" or "applicator nozzles" on the net got me no closer. I thought I had Amazon, Ebay and Google trained well enough they would give craft-related items automatically, but no...

Then I forgot about them for years because I worked my way out of internship and because I also moved on to 3d printing and CNC. I no longer needed to do paper and foam mock-ups.

Recently however, I found Eric Strebel's excellent YouTube channel. He does wonderful tutorials on traditional model making and mock-up techniques. I started watching for the feel-good memories but kept watching because the techniques are still useful.

One of his videos described his favorite tools and LUER LOCK dispensers were one of them. (affiliate) So, I made a note of the name and wrote this blog post so I won't forget and because maybe you might find them useful also.

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