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by John Joyce
Web Reviews
Spare Parts on the Web
Many a time you may feel hostage to your instrument vendor for spare parts. Indeed, some vendors go out of their way to hide the generic identity of the parts used in their systems. With access to the World Wide Web, dependence on specific vendors has been greatly decreased. Whether you are attempting to locate full backup units or just a part, the web offers many resources.
Using a search engine and performing a search on "spare parts" and the vendor or instrument name will often provide you with promising leads. If you want to start with something more focused, you might want to try performing your search within a site such as ChemIndustry.com <http://www.ChemIndustry.com>. There are other sites, such as Used-line <http://www.used-line.com> and labX <http://www.labx.com> that specialize in locating spare equipment, primarily full systems, but some spare parts as well. You can also locate vendors, such as Thorn Scientific Services Ltd. <http://www.thornta.com>, that specialize in spare parts for a particular class of instruments - in this case thermal analyzers. Of most general interest are firms such as MediBix <http://www.medibix.com> that specialize in providing spare parts for laboratory equipment, be it centrifuges, ovens or spectrometers.
This site can even display schematic drawings to ensure you have specified the correct part. If MediBix does not have the part in its databases, it has a technical service department, mandated to locate the part within four hours.
John Joyce <jrjoyce@briefcase.com> is a contributing writer to Inside Laboratory Management. Reprinted with permission from AOAC International.
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- IUPAC Sails into New Waters
- 2002-2003 IUPAC Officers and Bureau Members
- A museum in northern England makes chemistry a fun learning experience
- Scientific organizations are urged to preserve their historical records
- What hinders the public from appreciating science more? Is the way that science is taught today helping or making it harder for young people to evaluate sciencebased issues?
- Young Observer Programs: Getting New Experts Involved in IUPAC
- IUPAC Divisions and Education: A Case for Joint Projects
- New Paid Affiliate Members Mean More Sponsored Affiliates in Developing Countries
- Whither Green Chemistry?
- Chunli Bai Awarded SCI’s International Medal
- Allen Bard Awarded the ACS’ Priestley Medal
- Thomas Tidwell Receives CCA’s Killam Fellowship
- Evaluated Kinetic Data for Atmospheric Chemistry
- Educating Chemists and the Public About Risk Assessment
- Risk assessment involving chemical use is now mandatory in many countries, and although much has been written about it, there is still no broad agreement on best practices.
- Impact of Scientific Developments on the Chemical Weapons Convention
- Use of Legendre Transforms in Chemical Thermodynamics (IUPAC Technical Report)
- Modeling Lifetime and Degradability of Organic Compounds in Air, Soil, and Water Systems (IUPAC Technical Report)
- Selectivity in Analytical Chemistry (IUPAC Recommendations 2001)
- Polymer Networks
- Polymers in Medicine
- Metal and Ammonium Formate Systems
- Actinide Carbon Compounds
- Mycotoxins and Phycotoxins in Perspective at the Turn of the Millennium
- Nomenclature of Organic Compounds. Principles and Practice. 2nd edition
- Plasma Chemistry
- Safety in Chemical Production
- Web Reviews
- International Congress on Process Technologies
- Conference Calendar
