camusflage
04-03-2002, 12:07 AM
Since my lab days are long behind me, I needed to source some equipment for playing with mixes. I found some decent equipment out there, and thought I\'d share with all of you.
Carolina Biological (\"http://www.carolina.com/\") has some items for storing/mixing. They have free shipping, so a 36 pack of 1 dram screw-cap vials (for storing mixes/colognes), a tray for holding all those little bottles (no use crying over spilled pheros), and a small square watch glass for mixing in set me back less than $20. They also have disposable pipets marked off as low as 1/4ml, if that\'s your thing.
On Ebay was where the interesting stuff was. Seems there\'s a bustling business in selling old syringes as collectors items. I was able to pick up, again shipping included, new 1/4 ml and 2 ml glass syringes, along with a box of needles, for $30. The smaller syringe is marked at .01 ml, and the larger is marked at .1 ml. Who needs to count drops when you can measure precisely down to half the size of an EtOH drop? For those who wonder if anal-retentive has a hyphen in it, you can even pick up microliter syringes, accurate down to something like .0002 ml with a capacity of only .01 ml.
All in all, a fully decked lab for less than $50. Now all I need is a pair of goggles before Dr. Platz yells at me. images/icons/smile.gif
Carolina Biological (\"http://www.carolina.com/\") has some items for storing/mixing. They have free shipping, so a 36 pack of 1 dram screw-cap vials (for storing mixes/colognes), a tray for holding all those little bottles (no use crying over spilled pheros), and a small square watch glass for mixing in set me back less than $20. They also have disposable pipets marked off as low as 1/4ml, if that\'s your thing.
On Ebay was where the interesting stuff was. Seems there\'s a bustling business in selling old syringes as collectors items. I was able to pick up, again shipping included, new 1/4 ml and 2 ml glass syringes, along with a box of needles, for $30. The smaller syringe is marked at .01 ml, and the larger is marked at .1 ml. Who needs to count drops when you can measure precisely down to half the size of an EtOH drop? For those who wonder if anal-retentive has a hyphen in it, you can even pick up microliter syringes, accurate down to something like .0002 ml with a capacity of only .01 ml.
All in all, a fully decked lab for less than $50. Now all I need is a pair of goggles before Dr. Platz yells at me. images/icons/smile.gif