He, he... centrifuge. =)

[Chooie]

Schweet. Did you check out edmundscientific.com for your plastic test tubes?

 

[Killbat]

Edmund? No way am I paying their prices. I'll go to an electronics place here in town tomorrow. (I know, but they have a big box of test tubes. )

 

[Mark R]

You really ought to check that they are centrifuge compatible first.

The cheap glass ones aren't and may break - usually, they don't disintegrate, but even a hairline crack will mean that the contents get out.

 

[andylawcc]

mix drinks! Shots!

wait a minute. centrifuge... mix... don't mix...

 

[Mday]

things to separate:

milk, orange juice...

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is it an ultracentrifuge? those are more powerful... separate other certain solutions...

 

[Mark R]

Ultra-centrifuges are impressive pieces of equipment - unfortunately, I doubt that this is one.

I've seen one, and it had to go into it's own specially constructed basement. It's about the size of a large chest freezer, and had a huge vacuum pump, to reduce the air resistance inside. Despite this, it also needed a huge chiller system, to prevent the contents from burning.

The motor spindle is about the thickness of piano string, which means that to prevent it disintegrating when you run it, your samples must be balanced to within about 1 mg of each other.

Impressive, but then if you really want 250,000 g of acceleration, then I suppose you can put up with these difficulties.

 

[ratkil]

So does anyone else have this mental image of a room with a spray of ink, kool aid and other various substances around all four walls and Killbats face?

And no, I do not often have mental images of Killbat's face you friggin perves............

 

[geno]

Someone mentioned milk - do that! Get some whole milk, I'm sure the result's will be...interesting. Something tells me you'll end up with a cottage-cheese like substance =)

 

[Chooie]

Lol, his underground lab must look like those paint spinner booths at the fairs

 

[Killbat]

You guys are nuts.

But, at Adul's request (read: blame Adul), I think I'll post some pictures.

The device
Makeshift test tube
First six-legged victim

 

[cxim]

head down to the local hospital & into the lab.

there will usually be a bored chick or 2. have a good story about what you need a few tubes for, like a project for school, poor & money, etc.

be charming... you will get tubes for free & may run across a 'friend'

your interest in the girls at the lab will probably last longer than in the centrifuge, spinning gets boring fast.