Inquiry (采购产品): Suction Cup Question(s) I apologize for the naivety of my inquiry but I felt it simpler to send a message rather than try to figure things out on my own. I hope that this message can be forwarded to people that can assist me with my needs. I am looking to purchase only a handful of suction cups for my marine biology field research. I realize the application of this is a bit different than most of your customers but I am looking to put a suction cup attached tag onto dolphins for short durations (<12 hour deployments) to collect ecological and behavioral data. I am not sure which cup type would best suit my needs, flat or deep, but I am looking for something approximately 2.5 to 3 inches in diameter and appropriate for attachment to wet semi-curved surfaces. For attachment to the tag, I have some flexibility and a few different approaches I am considering. Either I will have a cup threaded into the buoyant material for the tag and have it be rigid (this would likely be a tag design with multiple cups for attachment) or having a cup wider at the top in order to drill a hole through it for a loop of tubing or potentially one with a collar to fit an o-ring or gasket type device. I understand that this may be difficult to visualize but I am at a loss for other ways to explain it. As far as the cup material I don't know how rigid I would like it to be and was initially thinking that a silicone cup would work best. But, with this too, I am not set in my development approach. Please let me know if you have any suggestions and I would be interested in ordering some suction cups for testing attachment fittings if it is allowable for me to make purchases in small quantities. I am a graduate student at the University of Hawaii and any purchases made are most easily facilitated via a purchase order for book keeping purposes within the grant budgets. I would appreciate to hear back from a representative at your earliest convenience and am looking forward to hearing your suggestions for helping me problem solve this unique application. As far as my initial investigations on-line I was thinking that Style B may work as well as the Style F (perhaps along the lines similar to the VC-73A2). Mahalo for your time, Michael Richlen ___________________________________ Michael F. Richlen University of Hawai'i Marine Mammal Research Program Hawai'i Institute of Marine Biology 808.247.5063 808.247.5831 (fax) richlen@hawaii.edu ___________________________________ **** Hidden Message ***** Michael Richlen HI 96744 USA Company: MMRP E-mail: richlen@hawaii.edu **** Hidden Message ***** richlen@hawaii.edu
