{"id":397,"date":"2012-01-15T13:00:36","date_gmt":"2012-01-15T17:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=397"},"modified":"2012-01-15T13:00:36","modified_gmt":"2012-01-15T17:00:36","slug":"sunday-15-january-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2012\/01\/15\/sunday-15-january-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday, 15 January 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000099; font-family: Arial;\">12:00 &#8211;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"> I&#8217;m still cranking away on the final lab session, which I should finish up today or tomorrow.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Barbara disassembled 600 15 mL dropper bottles yesterday, which means unscrewing and removing the cap and then pulling the dropper tip plug. That&#8217;s a lot of work that wouldn&#8217;t be necessary if our supplier shipped those bottles already disassembled. These are Chinese-made bottles, and the supplier says they&#8217;re shipped that way to save shipping costs. I suggested that since bottles must be disassembled to fill them, they might want to package the bottles, caps, and dropper tips separately, even if that raised the price a bit.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Before I ordered these bottles, I seriously considered buying the equivalent bottles from one of my other suppliers. Those bottles are US-made and cost about 25% more than the Chinese bottles. Although the cost of bottles is not an insignificant percentage of component costs, the extra cost of the US-made bottles wasn&#8217;t really the deciding factor. Other than having to disassemble them, I actually prefer the Chinese bottles. The body of their dropper tips is about two or three times longer than the body of the US-made dropper tips. The Chinese tips are a tight friction fit in the mouth of the bottle, while the much shorter US tips are a snap fit. To me, the Chinese tips seem more secure. I&#8217;m afraid that if I use the US bottles someone will squeeze a bottle too enthusiastically and pop out the dropper tip. That wouldn&#8217;t be good, particularly if the bottle contained a concentrated acid, strong ammonia, or a similar chemical. So for now I&#8217;m sticking with the Chinese bottles and hoping I can convince my supplier to package the bottles, caps, and tips separately.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 65%; height: 3px; font-family: Arial;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>12:00 &#8211; I&#8217;m still cranking away on the final lab session, which I should finish up today or tomorrow.\n<\/p>\n<p>Barbara disassembled 600 15 mL dropper bottles yesterday, which means unscrewing and removing the cap and then pulling the dropper tip plug. That&#8217;s a lot of work that wouldn&#8217;t be necessary if our supplier shipped those bottles already disassembled. These are Chinese-made bottles, and the supplier says they&#8217;re shipped that way to save shipping costs.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2012\/01\/15\/sunday-15-january-2012\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Sunday, 15 January 2012 &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-kits","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}