stupid spray bottles

I've had the same problems with these spray bottles. There are more expensive ones, but it's not right that so many just flat out don't last! @$_%*!#.....

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It's probably the one-way valve has lost its seal. Companies who sell products that use spray bottles make these as cheaply as possible to maximize profits at the expense of reliability. You can buy spray bottles that have better inside mechanisms.

How a spray bottle works

Industrial spray bottle

Sometimes bleach makes a black gross looking stuff build up, maybe try taking the spray part apart and cleaning it with hot water. At work we use the same thing, spray bottles for bleach to spray our showers down with. We have to take them apart about once a month and clean them.

Blue

Yeah the seals get bad from drying out etc. They stop working all at once it seems like. I buy like 3-4 at a time from walmart about a dollar a piece and just can them when they stop working.

A funny spray bottle story; Back years ago, I was a fry-cook in a burger/sub joint, part of a NW Florida Holiday Inn, called the "Yellow Submarine". We had this high-octane degreaser which they transferred from big drums to industrial spray bottles. These spray bottles could be fine tuned to squirt a fine stream accurately at distances up to 20-feet IIRC. A little known fact about industrial-strength degreaser; it kills insects instantly, particularly flies. Flies were always a problem, especially late in the summer in Florida. Late at night, when the restaurant was empty I used to target practice shooting the flies as they landed on the tables. I got pretty good. Oh well, I return you now to your regularly scheduled thread. Sorry for the hijack....arrrrgggghhhh, I be a thread pirate!