I hear you Gene. First of all, let me say I am not brand loyal either. I will use anything that works for me. That being said, I like Zap CA. I bought some Tower Hobbies stuff once, I think they call it "Build It" or something like that, and it did not work at all. I probably should have complained as Tower most likely would have replaced it. Anyway, I started using Zap for some reason and it works fine, even smokes, but I do not like the bottle. The reason I don't like the bottle is that the tip is molded into the bottle. It won't come off. These are one ounce bottles. Maybe the bigger bottles have screw on caps, but I very rarely use CA and bigger bottles usually get thick before I use it all. That is why I mentioned the bottles at all in my earlier posts. Now John Buckner has mentioned something that sounds great. I have a whole bunch of the capillary bulbs he shows. I never thought of filling a couple and storing them with the tips up. So now I have a hundred or so of the applicator bulbs but CA bottles that the caps don't come off. Don't problems ever end with this fascinating hobby?