Has anyone made a Scent Dispenser?

[BobCo 1965]

Just wondering if anyone has directions on how to make a scent dispenser cheaply. I tried making one that I thought would work, but unfortunately, it dispersed too fast. I'd like about 4 ounces to last over about 2-3 weeks or so.

Thanks,
Bob

[Gatekeeper]

I’m not sure I understand your question. You want to spray scent out of a 4oz bottle but you want the contents of the bottle to last 2 – 3 weeks, is that right?

I guess your options are to spray less or try soaking a cotton ball, or several cotton balls, in the scent you’re using and store them in a film canister. You can use the cotton balls many times and extend the uses of the scent that you’re using.

[BobCo 1965]

I'm looking to make just a drip or wick type scent dispenser. It does not have to drip at any certain time during the day. I'd rather not use a container with cotton or such that will be strong on day 1, and gradually loose it scent over time.

[Gatekeeper]

Now I get it.      

Try going to Tractor Supply Co, Ace Hardware or Home Depot and look at the sprayer fittings, drip irrigation fittings or small plumbing fittings. Take with you a small plastic soda bottle and see if there are any fittings that will screw onto the bottle or can be adapted to work on the bottle. There should also be some small plastic tubing in the area that will match up to the fitting. You may have to silicone a fitting into the opening of the bottle, but overall this should be fairly inexpensive.

If a wick type of dispenser is what you want find some place that sells kerosene lanterns or alcohol burners and use one of these type of wicks to put in a baby food jar or something like it.

[iron_llama]

Are you near a medical supply store?  IV equipment might work; if a morphine drip can be set to so many drops per hour with meds it should work for scent just as well.  You'd probably have to play around with it to figure out what drip rate you want but it should give you what you're looking for.

[Tom Leemans]

Real precise I.V. flow control is done with a VERY expensive pump.

You could probably attach some tubing to the bottle, then stick some felt wick material in the opposite end of the tube and have a simple plastic tubing clamp (pinch clamp)on the tube that lets a tiny bit out at a time. Set it to keep the felt moist with scent. If I were going to go this route, I'd price everything I need first, then see if I'd be better off just getting a scent dispenser.
 

[jamesh76]

Better yet. See if they would attach to your Estrus or deer urine bottle. Would be easy to switch from one cap to the other in the field to prevent leaks.

Interested to see how this project turns out. You got me thinking now.

[sidebuster]

Code Blue sells one its an electronic dispenser you set for amount and times you want to dispense.

Here link

 http://www.codebluescents.com/productdetail.aspx?id=OA1185

[ChuckC]

take a used pad from your Thermacell , drip it full of scent and turn it on.
ChuckC

[lpcjon2]

I used an old saline IV bag I got from the Hospital I worked at. They have adjustable slide bar that you can have it dip as slow as you want. I diluted the urine in distilled water so it would last, and made a scrape under the branch it hung on. As long as the scent was dripping in the scrape it will last a for a week or so. Go to a medical supply place for the elderly and you may find a enema bag with the same set up.

[Gatekeeper]

Here you go Bob

This is made from a Pepsi bottle.

The material list is:

1 Pepsi bottle
1 Vigoro Sweeper Nozzle
1 O-ring or garden hose gasket
Approximately 10” of ¼” I.D. vinyl tubing
3 zip ties
Dark flat spray paint
Approximately 12” of small rope
Duct tape (of course)

Here is what I did:

I removed the label from the bottle and applied a strip of tape vertically down the bottle. This strip of tape went from the neck of the bottle to the base of the bottle.

Next I painted the entire bottle with a flat dark primer. Any dark color paint will work but I think it should be flat. Once the paint dried I removed the tape. This left a portion of the bottle's interior exposed so I can see how much liquid is in the bottle.

While the paint was drying I heated a pan of water and once bubbles started to show on the bottom of the pan, I dipped one end of the vinyl tubing in the water and held it there for a few seconds to soften the plastic. When I thought it looked soft enough I pulled the tubing out of the water and I pushed the heated end of the tubing onto the brass nozzle.

Once the tubing cooled on the nozzle, which only takes a few seconds, I began to coil the tubing and hold it in place with the zip ties. After experimenting with the coil amount, I found that a coil of 1.5 turns worked well for this setup. I cut the length of the tubing so that it would end at the height where the nozzle screws into the bottle.

After coiling the tubing, I added an O-ring to the inside of the nozzle. Then I taped some rope to the lower end of the bottle, filled the bottle about ½ full of water and then screwed on the nozzle assembly.

To test the dripper, I hung the bottle in full sunlight and counted the drips in a five minute time period. When I was testing it was 6:00 PM, no clouds and 80 degrees. In the environment that I described I was getting 7 drips in a five minute time period, but once the sun started to dip behind some trees, the dripping stopped. So, this setup will need a place where it will get full sunlight for a portion of the day for it to work. I'm sure the commercially made drippers work this way too.

The sweeper nozzle came from Home Depot and cost $3. The tubing I had on hand, but Home Depot was selling tubing for $3 for 10’. So providing that you have all the materials except the tubing and the nozzle, you can make one of these for $6. If you want to add a wick to the tubing, call Mike at The Nocking Point. He sells alcohol burner wicks for $1.50.

Here are some pictures.

 

 

 

 

[Earl E. Nov...mber]

Nicely done Tom..

[BobCo 1965]

Wow, thanks a lot Tom!!!

[calgarychef]

An appropriate sized bottle and a tampon makes a great wick.  Your wife will give you some funny looks though...

[flippnsticks]

i do close to the same thing.i use a black sock. neck of the bottle at the toe end of the sock, tie your rope to the sock at bottom of the bottle. good luck brother.

[tbhuntr]

We used to use a Mt Dew bottle and a piece of clothes line rope. Drill a hole in the cap just big enough for the clothes line. Let the line hang out of the cap and slowly drip. Don't think it would last quite 2 weeks though. But it would last quite a while. Also it was cheap.