Amber tubing has resulted in the loss of an eye. I know this to be a fact.
The person did not have, or claimed to move the safety glasses he was
supposed to wear. He after about 3 months he had the affected eye replaced
with a glass eye. The danger from amber tubing is no BS!
Cheers, Lew
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 3:05 PM, Duggan, Brendan <bmduggan_at_ucsd.edu> wrote:
> Many thanks to everyone for the 30+ replies I received. I will probably
> end up using the amber latex tubing like the majority of people
> recommended. I will try and summarise the responses below.
>
> The braided metal transfer lines can be repaired, but it is expensive, and
> likely not cost-effective.
>
> The light brown rubber tubing is commonly called "amber latex". Most
> people use tubing with an outer diameter of 3/8" and wall thickness of
> 1/8". It can be purchased from Fisher, VWR, McMaster-Carr, or Macalaster
> Bicknell of New Jersey. Many people mentioned that it has a tendency to
> shatter and some people reduce the danger from flying shards of frozen
> latex by enclosing the tubing with black insulating foam tubing typically
> used for domestic water pipes or air conditioning.
>
> Another recommendation was the use of flexible teflon tubing. This was
> normally connected to the nitrogen tank at one end and the magnet at the
> other by short lengths of silicon or amber latex tubing.
>
> Brendan M. Duggan, PhD
>
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> Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
> University of California at San Diego
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Received on Wed Jan 22 2014 - 09:25:51 MST