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Apr 1, 2005 6:07 pm
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Hello Jeffrey Thanks for your warnings. I did not know that it was so bad. We have a lot of ventilation, but I'll check with out safety engineers. Thanks again...
I need to trasfer Methanol from one tube to another. The volume moved is between 20-25 ul per transfer. Is there a way to measure the transfer and how best...
Methanol is a much better behaved solvent for robotics than ether or methylene chloride. It's volatility and viscosity are closer to water than to ether. I'd...
Hello, We had some troubles of transferring large amounts of Methanol (ca 1ml) with disposable tips. It was solved by cooling down the methanol. However in...
Hello Philip Thanks again for your help. I'm the programmer, and I leave choice of solvent to the Chemist. I am now quite alarmed about Ether. We do chemistry...
Hello all, We are searching for powder dispensing heads with disposable tips that are available on an OEM basis. Our goal is to identify vendors that sell the...
psmith@...
Apr 7, 2005 3:54 pm
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Hello Paul There are two very distinct classes of powder dispensers. In combinatorial chemistry we need to put 2-20mg(approx) of 96 different powders in 96...
Just to follow-up on this post - thank you to all who replied with other company names. The complete list of contract compound management providers that we...
Andy Zaayenga
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Apr 7, 2005 6:29 pm
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Hi Paul I seem to recall that many years ago there was a company in Gateshead UK called Peerless systems who showed me a dispensing head just like you are...
David Ley
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Apr 8, 2005 1:34 pm
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Paul, My company BioTX Automation makes custom tooling for any robot. At my previous company Sigma-Genosys we did a lot of powder/resin dispensing in our DNA...
They are one of our integrators! http://www.peerless-systems.co.uk/ Regards, David Sands ... -- ________________________________________________________ David...
Hi Paul, It's not clear to me what you mean with tips for powder dispensing. But you can have a look at Sysmelec; we have developled together with them our ...
joerg.dreessen@...
Apr 8, 2005 3:32 pm
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Excess Volume and Air Gaps in pipetting We are interested in transferring accurately variable volumes in the order of 1ml with less than 2% dilution with...
Hello everyone, I am looking for suggestions for stand-alone cherry picking / serial dilution capable liquid handlers. We are currently using a span-8 (a...
... <snip> Hello, Here are a few vendors and the equipment names: Tecan - Miniprep PerkinElmer - Multiprobe Hamilton - Microlab These machines can be/are...
Hi Keith: I was a project manager at Gilson in the late nineties and we released a 4-probe "vari-span" version of the venerable Gilson 215 called a "215 ...
I'm interested in this, too. For standard volumes (above 2uL), I'm very happy with what we have, but I haven't had much luck "hit picking" or serial diluting...
Michael_Shanler@...
Apr 14, 2005 5:11 pm
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John, In general, an airgap helps, but it is an airgap i.e. a compressible element interrupting the solid fluid lines. Unless you are dispensing an excess...
Hi, We use Tecan insturments for Cherry-picking (Rearraying) in our lab, however if you are looking to do serial dilution on a plate basis somehting like an...
I have a customer I setup to multipipette 300nL contact dispense with fixed tips (no pinch valves) into a dry plate. It's an aqueous solution and we're...
Jon Alden, T-US
Jon.Alden@...
Apr 21, 2005 3:30 pm
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We just acquired a Tecan Genesis and we are a med chem group We need a few advices 1- we looking for a organic solvent system so far your choice would be...
Has anyone used a 24-well plate washer or dispenser? I'm familiar with the Bio-tek uFill. If you have any liquid handling recommendations, please contact me ...
Michael_Shanler@...
Apr 28, 2005 3:05 pm
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I just began working with the Biomek 2000. I have started recieving two errors. The first--states that "Move halted due to motor control failure or E- stop",...
Hello Everyone, I am looking for suggested manufacturers and models of plate centriguges that are best for 384-well plates. I have very small bubbles that the...
Hello, I'm gathering an internal report on kit for live cell imaging (the report will go to my management and scientists). For a start I'm gathering the...
Fred, It's common for us to assist customers to adapt older instruments for new applications, and parts and accessories are readily available for the Genesis. ...
Tawnya, We have occasionally needed to spin down 96 or 384 well plates to pellet a precipitate, etc., though I don't recall that we have centrifuged 384's...
tom@...(Contr)
Tom@...
Apr 28, 2005 8:22 pm
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We have gotten fixed tips from Popper & Sons in New York. I don't have their address but am sure you can find them on the web. The only difference is the...
Hi Neil You can add the Innovatis Cellscreen - I gave a talk on integrating it at a recent LRIG event so you can't of been paying attention lol. Regards David...
