5-mm spinner summary

From: Bob Hanson <hansonr_at_stolaf.edu>
Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 11:13:44 -0500

Thank you! Sounds like $90 is about the going price. See also
http://www.rototec-spintec.com/products/prod_area/tab_02_01_04_01.htm
Today 1 Euro = $US 1.16

Bob Hanson


   From:
       "Charles G. Fry" <fry_at_chem.wisc.edu>

I've just been going through this this week! We have a sample changer, and are
currently using Bruker's "blue" 5mm rotors; I think these sell for <$100 ea. These
rotors are a cheap polyethylene (or similar), and just a drop of chloroform will ruin
them. We've ruined a bunch in that way, so I need more, and I don't want the cheap blue
ones.

Bruker has Kel-F rotors for $135 ea.

Wilmad sells rototec 5mm PEEK spinners for $140 each ($120 for lots > 9). I bought a
couple of them recently to replace our Bruker ceramic rotors; rototec says they'll work
ok cold and hot, and they're much cheaper than the ceramic rotors, and more durable
(certainly will survive a drop, which the ceramic ones do not). They look good, but I
don't have much experience with them yet.

So I'm in a bind as to how to replace my sample changer spinners; I need 20 sometime in
the next year or so. But $120 ea is awfully pricey (even $90 ea would be a problem)!

We've tried to make some here in our shop, but so far I see too much spinning trouble
with the homemade stuff, where we aren't using the expensive materials like solid kel-f.
I think it's likely that I'll have to stick with vendor available rotors.



   From:
          Mark Edgar <M.Edgar_at_lboro.ac.uk>

Expensive bits of plastic....

Direct from Bruker:
AH0130 (30 spinners) _at_ £53.13 (pounds sterling)
Z42516 (18 spinners) _at_ £62.33

>From rototec-spintec.com :
B-GFK-5 (one spinner) _at_ £64.00
WG-AH0130 (20 to 29) _at_ £45.00
WG-AH0130 (30 or more) _at_ £38.00

Some of these prices are about a year old and some spinners are not to be
used for high temperature work (whatever "high" means) so far the Rototec
(WG-AH-130) spinners are OK to 50'C.

   From:
       "Wang, Minghui" <MWang_at_OSIP.com>

A box of sixty (POM) plastic spinners cost $5,200, February 2002 price.


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