What you are looking for is a "pulsating jet dental cleaning device" and goes by the product name of "WATERPIC" ....your
nearest Pharmacy or place where you get prescription drugs filled  will supply these , they are sold world wide as a
waterpic... hope this helps ... Ferret
----- Original Message -----
From: Helmut Nisters <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2000 8:45 AM
Subject: AW: Re: Cleaning shell/water pik


| Dear Scott,
|
| what is a water pik. Can you explain it to me and how does it look. Could you send me
| an jpg image, but small one I didn't find the work pik in the dictionary.
| with best greetings
| Helmut from Innsbruck.
|
|
| Helmut "Helix" Nisters
| Franz-Fischer-Str. 46
| A-6020 Innsbruck / Austria / Innsbruck
| phone and fax: 0043 / 512 / 57 32 14
| e-mail: [log in to unmask]
| web:    www.netwing.at/nisters/
|            (please visit it and sign guestbook)
| always looking for shellgrit from all over the world
| for my nearly 89 years aged mother Irmgard
| to makes happy and to keep up her health
|
| office:
| Natural History Department of the
| Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum Innsbruck
| Feldstrasse 11 a
| A-6020 Innsbruck / Austria / Europe
| phone: 0043 / 512 / 58 72 86 - 37
| web: www.tiroler-landesmuseum.at
|         (specimen donations to the
|          Tiroler Landesmuseum molluscs collection
|          are always appreciated)
|
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| There may be some of you out there who have never used a water pik for
| cleaning shells (or cleaning teeth, either). If you have not, and may be
| considering it, let me tell you, this is one powerful little shell cleaner.
| This little tool creates great pressure in little bursts, and is very
| effective in cleaning shells. I clean my shells with it in a 2 1/2 gallon
| white bucket filled with water. Use it under the water, for two reasons: You
| don't blast the shell to who-knows-where, and you don't get soaked from the
| spray either. The white bucket is used so I can easily see when the animal
| gets flushed out. I've used it on larger shells on occasion, when I've put it
| deep inside the aperature and blasted away on a stubborn liver. I think the
| last one I bought cost about 30 bucks, and well worth it.
|
| Scott
| Florida
|