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"Ophelia" > wrote:

> "Dan Abel" > wrote in message
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> > In article >,
> > OmManiPadmeOmelet > wrote:
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> >> Anyone else?
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> >
> > OK, so we did the shop tools for cooking and medicine. How about
> > medical stuff? My father had a whole set of hypodermics that he used
> > for oiling hard to reach places. Some people use them in the kitchen
> > for injecting brine and flavored stuff into meat before cooking.
>
> Yes indeed I use a large hypodermic syringe. It was very difficult to
> get though. I tried several pharmacists but they wouldn't give me one
> unless I had a dirty needle to hand in <???>
>
> Eventually I got one when I was being treated for a serious infection
> last year. Because I was on IV antibiotics for several months, I had a
> Hickman line inserted and was taught to do it myself at home. Suddenly
> from not being trusted with a single one, I was given boxes of the
> things)
>
>

I use a massive 12 guage needle for blowing out emu eggs.
It was originally a bone marrow aspiration needle. Our Path' cleaned out
his office and was throwing them away! They are perfect attached to
tubing from an aquarium pump. Work on Ostrich and Rhea eggs too.
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Om.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch." -Jack Nicholson