Burette maintenance

[paulsutton]

I have just bought a burette,  mostly so I can practice titration with water, but will hopefully move on to doing some science with this, it is a plastic 25ml.

Before I start any hints / tips on keeping this in good condition,   e.g make sure the tap stays working properly,. I have heard they can seize up, but not too sure.  I am guessing cleaning should be a case of running water through. 

Thanks for any help I did search for this on the forum so will keep looking but any response should help others too.

Regards

 

Paul

On 1/3/2022 at 10:20 AM, John Cuthber said:

You might want to try dry ice, or even ice and salt because they are cheap.

So from this is running a salt water solution through this better than perhaps, tap water or ideally de-ionised water.

I can make up salt solutions for this easy enough too. 

Thanks

 

Paul

6 minutes ago, paulsutton said:

I have just bought a burette,  mostly so I can practice titration with water, but will hopefully move on to doing some science with this, it is a plastic 25ml.

Before I start any hints / tips on keeping this in good condition,   e.g make sure the tap stays working properly,. I have heard they can seize up, but not too sure.  I am guessing cleaning should be a case of running water through. 

Thanks for any help I did search for this on the forum so will keep looking but any response should help others too.

Regards

 

Paul

So from this is running a salt water solution through this better than perhaps, tap water or ideally de-ionised water.

I can make up salt solutions for this easy enough too. 

Thanks

 

Paul

 

Is someone able to delete the replies to this please, It seems something got merged with my reply which I thought was a reply to my thread.

I don't understand how this message merging thing works

Thanks

Paul