Buying a speculum

Does anyone know where to buy a metal speculum at a good price?

I've had good luck on ebay.

Check this site www.medicaltoys.com. A very good one 😃

Just do a search on ebay.

There are a number of ebay companies that sell inexpensive instruments, generally made in Pakistan, that are more than suitable for our kinky needs 😃

Have fun!

Look at ebay

A company called porter nash sells them at a reasonable price plus other things medical they are on the internet and deliver fast aswell

Hi,

If your in the UK, even though its a main stream sex toy site, Love Honey do a good metal vaginal speculum which I can vouch for being a decent bit of kit.

They also do a 3 prong metal rectal speculum and a couple of other plastics speculums including a glow in the dark one (but I've never seen any of these)

Hope this helps.

Tim.

Again if in the uk bondara sett them tend to be cheaper too

In Japan, I got it at yahoo! auctions at good price 😃

Best prices I've seen so far are at www.kenstwistedmind.com. They have a Medical Gear section. The pix & text look just like Extreme Restraints, but Ken's is a LOT cheaper.

The best place to get a metal speculum is at a medical supply shop. or you can ask a doctor if they want to get rid of some speculums. chances are that they will say yes.

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the best place to get a metal speculum is at a medical supply shop. or you can ask a doctor if they want to get rid of some speculums. chances are that they will say yes.

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Why exactly would a doctor want to get rid of a speculum? Used plastic ones are unsanitary, new ones aren't just handed out, that would be like McDonald's handing out their grill cleaner. And for what reason would anyone give away free metal specula?

I mean for anyone with common sense, specula should be simple enough to use, but a doctor would have to assume that he would be responsible for the use of medical equipment given to a random patient. Would the doctor be able to trust the judgment of a someone bold enough to saunter into his office and ask for a speculum? Why would he/she take that risk?

A medical supply shop? Eh, maybe, though probably not. It would make infinitely more sense to Google "buy speculum" than to ask a doctor to part with one. Look on eBay, a medical fetish website (there are several), Amazon, etc. It would just be downright weird to ask your doctor for a speculum; after all, it's not Nasonex or Allegra...

You can even buy it over amazon! http://www.amazon.com/MedStock-Metal-Vaginal-Speculums-medium/dp/B000F1SSEY

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You can even buy it over amazon! http://www.amazon.com/MedStock-Metal-Vaginal-Speculums-medium/dp/B000F1SSEY

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Check out some of the reviews. I take it they are all not real purchasers!

I have also purchased a number of very good speculums online via e-bay. Hope that helps!

Not much of a selection but their prices are not bad http://www.secret4us.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?SCREEN=CTGY&CATEGORY_CODE=Medical

Loved the "reviews" especially the comment about the wooden speculum!

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loved the "reviews" especially the comment about the wooden speculum!

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Yikes! All I can think of is SPLINTERS! Ouch!

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Just remember if you're using metal/non-disposable equipment you need to pay attention to cleaning it. A 10% bleach solution works really well. Make sure to mix it in COLD water or you get nasty fumes. Once you take the instruments out of the bath be sure to rinse thoroughly in cool water and set aside to dry. A bit of extra work nut worth it in the long run

T

Absolutely e-Bay. Know exactly what you want and you will find it there. There are always hundreds of cheap metal speculums listed. You need to know the style and size you desire. Do not get plastic ones. I know of two women who have been injured when these things broke. This was with a real ob/gyn doing an exam.

Speed

Do not get plastic ones. I know of two women who have been injured when these things broke. This was with a real ob/gyn doing an exam.

Was this in North America or Europe, or some obscure third world country? I have seen and used virtually every USA FDA approved disposable vaginal speculum and not one may be "broken" resulting in injury to the patient when used as intended. It would be interesting to learn more about these incidents and the resulting lawsuit which would have surely followed.

Unless North Carolina has moved recently, these incidents happened in the U.S.. The plastic crap may be FDA approved, but that does not make it good nor safe.

Speed

When we first started playing years ago, we bought the cheap stainless steel speculums. We had one that had a metal burr on the edge. I can't tell what a metal burr can do to the vaginal wall; therefore, check the edges of the low-cost metal speculums very carefully by running your finger around the edges. A cut on your finger is a lot easier than a cut on your vaginal canal. Since then we only used high quality name brands like Sklar or Miltex.

In regards to plastic speculums, there are some really cheap ones out there. We would suggest that you stay away from plastic ones if you are just learning to use a speculum. Many times they break because the novice tries to open it up too soon without fully inserted it or tries to use one too small and try to open it extremely wide. We have always used the Welch Allyn brand. They are made pretty well but a little price but well worth so you don't end up in the emergency room with a piece of speculum inside and trying to explain to the E.R. doctor how it got there.

Medfedcouple

The plastic crap may be FDA approved, but that does not make it good nor safe.

That is a contradiction of terms Speed. FDA approval provides an assurance of quality and safety, and exists for no other reason. The largest market share in North America is held by Welch-Allyn, followed a distant second by Sani-Spec which was first patented by Burdett Instruments in the 1970s and has passed through many owners including Bard without any further enhancement. Neither may be broken during intended use as they are manufactured with certified plastics which are resiliant, and the physical design simply will not withstand enough force to fracture the blades before detaching. Both have a decades long proven track record with millions if not billions of units being used without any lawsuits against the producers for defective product. To consider them as "crap" is highly uninformed and unwarranted.

The main reason for disposable specula is that they are single patient use articles and expected to be used only once preventing any chance of cross-contamination.

I will not dispute that some people may have had untoward incidents with some unknown types of vaginal specula but that is certainly the exception rather than the norm. I have used the Welch-Allyn 5800X family for years and it is far and away superior to a metal speculum. Being a single patient disposable that does not require sterilization is only half the advantage, the internal lighting system provides exceptional illumination without any obstructions or interference of an external light source.

A few years ago I made a point to test the W-A 58001 speculum to prove it's safety for my own satisfaction. Firstly, when angulated and elevated then held inside a closed fist, the least amount of excess pressure will cause the ratchet mechanism to disengage allowing the speculum to close - Impossible to exert enough force to damage anything, patient or speculum. Secondly, I clamped one into a vise and intentionally bent the blades with a lever to determine how far they would bend before breaking. I expected the blades would have shattered into a sharp edge like glass, in fact they did not break or shatter at all. The highly elastic material (DuPont™ Delrin®) withstood forces almost as high as metal before they simply bent smoothly, causing only a crazed fracture line internally. To get them to break, one would need to work at it by bending them back and forth quite a few times. Based on that, one could reasonably expect that the possibility of a failure resulting in injury to the patient is virtually none.

I prefer to work on facts and real life experience, quality disposable instruments from reputable manufacturers have numerous advantages over metal both in play as well as real medicine. The risk of patient cross-infection using metal is far higher than the chance of an exploding plastic speculum.

But, a lot people are not real doctors like DrJ58 and end up buying some of these plastic speculums on EBay, not knowing if they were factory rejects or where they came from. Many people are not going to go to their local legitimate medical supply for fear of embarrassment. We agree with DrJ58 that the Welch-Allyn 5900X series are the best in our opinion. They are excellent for photographing the cervix as shown in our Photo Alum. Many times the plastics ones are re-used by some medical fetish people even though they are single use item. Vaginal speculums are not FDA restricted in the United States, but some medical stores will not sell them to the general public, which has been our experience in the past before the internet really took off. We use to love to play with Softspec (inflatable speculum) but they are FDA restricted so we can no longer get them. We bought some metal speculums just in case down the road that the plastic ones become FDA restricted, at least we will still have metal one to play with. We keep kicking ourselves for not buying a stainless steel speculum for colonics for a Canadian company before the FDA restricted them. This Canadian Company would not sell us one recently because it is FDA restricted. They would have sold us one over ten years ago but we kept thinking the $450 price tag was too much. (Soft Spec by DRG not by Welch-Allyn)