Woohoo - esoteric scientific junk!
So, a gaggle of biologists have been cleaning out the old labs on campus - and this week they held a nifty little "garage sale" - but it's a garage sale filled with oodles of lab junk.
(And yes, I was amused when a certain first-year physics lecturer and half the physics lab tech team rolled up to scab stuff for the undergrad labs...)
So, I came home with:
A nice old (but quite decent) optical microscope, with lamp and everything. And a nice old wooden box. They're the old MSc.(Bio) ones, so they're certainly nice enough for any remotely serious work.
A couple of spare globes for the microscope's lamp (they're esoteric old ones)
A decent sized box of brand new microscope slides.
A couple of nice glass stock bottles (useful, and they look nice.)
A short-wave (germicidal) UV tube - good for exposing photoresists, erasing EPROMs, giving yourself skin cancer, and probably other things I haven't thought of yet.
A hydrogen discharge lamp (I'm not sure why... but it sounded like a good idea at the time.)
An empty drawer (I needed something to carry it all in, right?)
A nice long chunk of allthread,
A big chunk of flat aluminium bar (These will come in handy for making something, I'm sure)
And a big box of random crap, which I didn't really look through in detail before taking it. Said box contained...
A couple of bottles of various histology/microbiology stains.
A glass stopcock (I've always thought these were nice pieces of glass fabrication... it looks neat.)
An empty Winchester of ethyl acetate (I suppose the Winchester will be useful to keep something in, maybe...)
A few Pasteur pipettes (the nice proper glass ones... not those stupid plastic ones)
A few test tubes, and a couple of Erlenmeyer flasks. (All nicely cleaned, and plugged with cotton... gg biologists)
Total cost for all said crap? Fifty dollars. Most of which is the microscope. Bargain. =)
(And yes, I was amused when a certain first-year physics lecturer and half the physics lab tech team rolled up to scab stuff for the undergrad labs...)
So, I came home with:
A nice old (but quite decent) optical microscope, with lamp and everything. And a nice old wooden box. They're the old MSc.(Bio) ones, so they're certainly nice enough for any remotely serious work.
A couple of spare globes for the microscope's lamp (they're esoteric old ones)
A decent sized box of brand new microscope slides.
A couple of nice glass stock bottles (useful, and they look nice.)
A short-wave (germicidal) UV tube - good for exposing photoresists, erasing EPROMs, giving yourself skin cancer, and probably other things I haven't thought of yet.
A hydrogen discharge lamp (I'm not sure why... but it sounded like a good idea at the time.)
An empty drawer (I needed something to carry it all in, right?)
A nice long chunk of allthread,
A big chunk of flat aluminium bar (These will come in handy for making something, I'm sure)
And a big box of random crap, which I didn't really look through in detail before taking it. Said box contained...
A couple of bottles of various histology/microbiology stains.
A glass stopcock (I've always thought these were nice pieces of glass fabrication... it looks neat.)
An empty Winchester of ethyl acetate (I suppose the Winchester will be useful to keep something in, maybe...)
A few Pasteur pipettes (the nice proper glass ones... not those stupid plastic ones)
A few test tubes, and a couple of Erlenmeyer flasks. (All nicely cleaned, and plugged with cotton... gg biologists)
Total cost for all said crap? Fifty dollars. Most of which is the microscope. Bargain. =)