Thanks for the replies I got on the NMR liquid handler. I was informed
that the autoformatting robots for sale from Bruker/Varian are quite
expensive, so it would be more cost-effective to use a Gilson or other
liquid handler. Most people used a 96-well plate holder that they
modified, so I'm hoping to do the same, although I don't know of anyone
that was able to get it to wash/withdraw the solvent effetively. Thanks
to Patrick, Micheal, and Jiangli,
Chris
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Some folks here have worked out a holder for 8" NMR tubes from parts of
tip-racks from 96-well plates. I think they use it on a MWG robot.
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There's no reason that a Gilson couldn't
be programmed to do the same. One could use either the Gilson software,
or Varian's Gilson-controller software in VAST. I don't know how
Bruker's software could be made to work.
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We are using a THEONXY robot to transfer solution from a 96-well plate
into NMR tubes routinely. Instead of using a long and sharp handler
which is able to reach to the bottom of NMR tube, we designed a NMR tube
rack. This NMR tube rack has 96 wells and can hold 96 NMR tube steadily.
Horizontally, it has the same size as any other regular 96-well plate,
therefore regular tips are used to transfer solution from regular plate
into NMR tubes. But, it of course cannot be used to wash NMR tubes.
Occasionally, it fails to push solution to the bottom of NMR tubes.
Generally, we are very satisfied with it.
Received on Tue Apr 04 2006 - 15:00:13 MST