Brushie:

You want 'medical salvage' I can provice some close to home.

Those blue things are the stoppers off IV bags (though they are moving away from 'em these days) and because they are a latex rubber, tend to deteriorate over time. The red ones looks suspiciously like blood sampliung parts, and they usually end up in the Sharps bins.

As for my 'supply', I get IV TPN (IV feeding) at home, and so have bags of various sizes (the boaters love 'em for ballast bags) tubing and assorted connectors/fittings, syringes of 3ml, 10/12ml, and 20ml (I only salvage the saline ones), and those need plastic needles they are trying to use instead of the metal ones. I ~can~ salvage some glass vials, with or without their caps (look a lot like milk jugs) but salvaging needes is something I DONT do. If I need one for rinsing a vial, its a fresh one, and if I need the metal tubing, even thats a fresh one w/ the tip cut with a dremel (ends up the same as the ones you can get in hobby stores for solvent/oil application)

Personally, I use the syringes and the plastic needles for glue and silicone applicators, as you can get the syringes into spots you'd never get a bottle into. Easier to carry too (like when I go to my youngest nephew's place to help him put his wooden puzzle-models together)

If you're gonna use any of the bits, I'd wash 'em in alcohol or some other disinfectant. You be better off making casts of Tamiyas with a hobby putty (I may try some low-temp casting this winter) Most of the aftermarket 'fiddly' stuff out there has been copied from Tamiya, Verlinden, or the considerably rare Kirin sets. Having originals here, I could tell ya which sets the parts came from. And if they can 'dupe' 'em, and sell 'em online, why can't I make 'em at cost for friends. Though when it comes to the boxes/crates, I prefer to build 'em out of wood. Once I try making the bits, I'll let people know how easy/hard it is, and what products I used (going to tryi doing it on the cheap, not with Smooth-On pro-level stuff)

I can send or post pics... depending on how many would like to see the hardware.

WhiteWolf
- who missed his gobbler-meal 'cause he dinna feel well.

PS: here is one example: IV-set drip chamber turned into a suction-bulb for my Touch-n-Flow solvent applicator. Very useful for minor clogs, as I can blow it out w/ pressure when a bit of styrene gets in the tip. Also allows one to fill easily w/o using ones mouth (and the health risk)