re-using spray bottles, but with a different product

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Was wondering if I could re-use my windex or other glass cleaning product spray bottles with different quick detailing products. I might be buying in bulk, meaning 1 to 5 gallons, which they don't come in a spray bottle, so that's why I was wondering about using the same spray bottle over and over. I would rinse the bottles out with soap and water before hand, but do you think this is a good idea? Yeah, I'm too cheap to buy new spray bottles.
 
lol its funny how all of us lose track of reality and get crazy about "what will harm the car". I do it all the time....I'm actually looking for bottles for engine kote and its sprayer from meg...

About re-using bottles, I think it depends on what you are going to put in them. Personally, I wouldnt put any strong APC or highly acidic or basic products in.
1. Glass sprayers usually spray a very fine mist. You wouldnt want to get strong cleaners in your lung.
2. Over time, the strong cleaners may damage the sprayer (nothing expensive to replace)

Other than that, I personally reused the Meg's Hot Wheels bottle with a dilution of simple green. Anything to put more money into the products right?
 
My chem. supplier has spray bottles at $1.00 each, triggers at $1.25 each, $2.00 when bought together.

Now I buy from the local janitorial supply company. Six or more at $1.10, a savings of $.90! Doesn't sound like much, but I go through bottles like underwear.

BTW, Solvent-based dressing eat the seals in the triggers. Anyone else dealing with this? Maybe stainless steel tank/sprayers??
 
Spray bottles are pretty cheap to buy new. Home Deopt, BJ's, etc. all have some nice bottles for a couple of bucks each.
 
stainbuster said:
BTW, Solvent-based dressing eat the seals in the triggers. Anyone else dealing with this? Maybe stainless steel tank/sprayers??
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Meguiar's has quite a variety of bottles and sprayers. If you use the Meg's line, the bottles are even labeled for various products. I have no idea about price. Probably not the cheapest, but they do look professional.
They also have a variety of spray nozzles. High volume, foaming, standard, chemical reasistant.
They are shown in the Detailer section of the Meg's Professional Product Guide.
By the time I found out about them, I must have owned 20 or more 32oz. bottles from Wal*Mart, Dollar General, and Zep from Home Depot. Not much difference in the bottles, but the sprayers don't all have an easily adjustable spray pattern. The Dollar General, ($1), and the Zep, ($3), seem to be the most difficult to get just the spray pattern I want. Not a big deal, just an aggravation.

Charles
 
So, I take it by the couple of comments so far that it's best to buy new bottles and not re-use the ones I have?
 
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For solvent-based or acid-based products I use the Delta SprayMaster at Home Depot. $5 but it comes with 5 year gurantee. For products that are more gentle, the spray bottles at Sams Club are great. 4 for $5 and they serve their purpose just fine.
 
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