I have an entire plant tissue culture lab that I’ve paid basically nothing for from government auctions. Incredibly expensive stuff but almost nobody bids on it. I’m basically out of room for more stuff but some of it doesn’t get bid on and ends up in the garbage. Like a pallet of lab stuff for $10 w/ 0 bids.
They had a whole liquid cryo system go for less than $1k. Been trying to avoid getting any mass specs but they come up a lot. I’ve been shopping here for the past like 6 months and heres my haul so far:
Harvey Sterilemax autoclave: $10
Airclean 600 laminar flow hood (new in box): $400
2x milli-q advantage a10 water filters (w/ filters): $20 each
Shakers, rockers, and scales: ~$10 in pallet deals
Incubating orbital shaker: $100
Oscilloscope: $10 in pallet
nikon ts100 inverted microscope w/ camera attachment: $70
oh my god. all you need now is the grad students to do the repetitive pipetting and you’ll be a whole ass university for less than the price of a high end laptop
Edit: A microscope that kills bugs by taking the coolest images of them. No judgement, even if I wouldn’t do it myself, I’m very glad other people do it for everyone else to see. Speaking of, if you get it I hope you upload some images! Lots of insects have a surprising amount of details up close, like their true number of eyes.
I feel this process could give an already-dead bug dignity. I try to rescue bees sometimes, but some of them are expired already when I try to help them. I really like bees so I wish I had a way to preserve their image, and return them to nature.
i used to look at the outsides of single-celled organisms with 'em, it’s pretty neat
electron microscopes truly are the most “you change the result by looking at it” instrument though. I burned many a hole in precious one-of-a-kind samples by looking at them too hard 😭
I have an entire plant tissue culture lab that I’ve paid basically nothing for from government auctions. Incredibly expensive stuff but almost nobody bids on it. I’m basically out of room for more stuff but some of it doesn’t get bid on and ends up in the garbage. Like a pallet of lab stuff for $10 w/ 0 bids.
👀where can I find these auctions
publicsurplus.com
Jesus Christ there’s a TEM for $150 lmao
Gonna cop me an NMR I’ve got room in the garage
They had a whole liquid cryo system go for less than $1k. Been trying to avoid getting any mass specs but they come up a lot. I’ve been shopping here for the past like 6 months and heres my haul so far:
I was joking about the NMR but a good microscope for 50 is probably worth doing. If nothing else my kids would think it’s cool
oh my god. all you need now is the grad students to do the repetitive pipetting and you’ll be a whole ass university for less than the price of a high end laptop
What exactly is a TEM?
Edit: A microscope that kills bugs by taking the coolest images of them. No judgement, even if I wouldn’t do it myself, I’m very glad other people do it for everyone else to see. Speaking of, if you get it I hope you upload some images! Lots of insects have a surprising amount of details up close, like their true number of eyes.
I feel this process could give an already-dead bug dignity. I try to rescue bees sometimes, but some of them are expired already when I try to help them. I really like bees so I wish I had a way to preserve their image, and return them to nature.
Nah I’m not going to get that lol it takes up a whole room
People do bug pics but you can take pictures of materials as well
i used to look at the outsides of single-celled organisms with 'em, it’s pretty neat
electron microscopes truly are the most “you change the result by looking at it” instrument though. I burned many a hole in precious one-of-a-kind samples by looking at them too hard 😭
I saw a lot of japanese yugioh cards on there for like $10. If it weren’t in Arizona (I think it was), I’d grab it and hope some of them were $$.
Hell yeah thank you
$375 for a scanning electron microscope???
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