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"F Murtz" <haggisz@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
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> Bloke Down The Pub wrote:
>> "Loosecanon"<loosecanon@iinet.net.au>  wrote in message
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>>> "F Murtz"<haggisz@hotmail.com>  wrote in message
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>>>> Loosecanon wrote:
>>>>> "Loosecanon"<loosecanon@iinet.net.au>   wrote in message
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>>>>>> "F Murtz"<haggisz@hotmail.com>   wrote in message
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>>>>>>> has any one the foggiest notion of where to get a thing like these
>>>>>>> near
>>>>>>> Sydney.
>>>>>>> http://lawn-and-garden.hardwarestore.com/77-493-hose-end-sprayers.aspx
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Not sure if any help but seasol and some lawn fertilisers come in 2
>>>>>> litre
>>>>>> containers. Should be available at Big B(unnings)
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Ah did a Google search first link is the sprayers you are after. The
>>>>> second
>>>>> link is stockists. But looks like you might have to order as a special
>>>>> through the hardware place.
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.hudsonsprayers.com.au/products/hose/
>>>>> http://www.hudsonsprayers.com.au/stockists/
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> The fertilizer ones are no good for my purpose.
>>>> The ones I want have graduations like 5litres 10litres 15litres etc and
>>>> if you want say 40 mls of chemical to 20 litres of water you put 20 mls
>>>> of chemical in bottle and fill with water to the 20 litre mark then the
>>>> hose sprays the mixture at required rate.
>>>>
>>>> I have already found many mail order places from overseas but I want
>>>> somewhere here.
>>>> PS I already have two that I bought in hardware shops years ago but I 
>>>> am
>>>> moving house and I can not find them at the moment (probably buried in
>>>> the container in a box somewhere)
>>>
>>> I wouldn't want to lug around 20 litres of water (20 kg +weight of
>>> sprayer) for any length of time. It was bad enough fertilising roses for 
>>> a
>>> customer from a 15 kg bag recently. Better to have something you fill 
>>> more
>>> often than to lug around something heavy. Even if you half fill it the
>>> bulkiness of the container is not good. For me a 10 litre model would be
>>> my maximum. Remember too you will be dragging a hose around as well.
>>>
>>
>> I had the same thought but then I guessed that the container markings are
>> not for 20 litres but for the equivalent of mixed content and then 20 
>> litres
>> of water sprays through the hose and uses up all the fluid.
>>
>> I have been known to be wrong before.
>>
>> Mike
>>
>>
> You are correct, the container is only 500mls or one litre the graduations 
> are not proportional , if you want say 40 mls per 20 litres you put 40 mls 
> of stuff in and fill to 20 litre mark the bottle may be only part filled 
> but the hose mixes it at the rate of 40 mls per 20 litres.
>
> like this http://www.hudsonsprayers.com.au/products/hose/
>
> But this company says it supplies home hardware and mitre 10 stores so I 
> tried numerous places and got nowhere so I rung them and the only place 
> near to sydney they supplied recently was near newcastle so I gave up.
>  I have found a nursery that is getting me a better one that has brass 
> fittings with a 500 ml bottle that has a graduated dosing lever to 
> regulate mix although it is dearer.

As a matter of interest what will you be spraying?