Saw this at interesting engineering. Going to go look for one and see if there is a version for loose tea as well. Anyone seen one of these?

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If you can't find what you are looking for, I suppose you could just go to the bait and tackle store and get a bobber, then connect the chain from the loose leaf tea ball to it.
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True. Cheap and brilliant. Got a project for the day! Hope that the float doesn't need to be overly large as I prefer the tea ball to suspend, not rest on the bottom :-)
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