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by macca
22 Mar 2024, 13:59
Forum: Jobs Forum
Topic: Jobs part time or full time or looking for work
Replies: 33
Views: 33739

Re: Jobs part time or full time or looking for work

Loopy wrote: 22 Mar 2024, 06:49 Wow macca! Good on ya! You have done a great job there and been a super help to everyone, especially me! You've earned it! Enjoy! :clap3: :clap3:
Thank you, let Charlie know I just couldn't out last her lol :crazy: he'll know what I mean
by macca
21 Mar 2024, 12:11
Forum: Jobs Forum
Topic: Jobs part time or full time or looking for work
Replies: 33
Views: 33739

Re: Jobs part time or full time or looking for work

Hi Everyone, I'm going part time after 29 years in the same place, if anyone is interested in a country change. I'm a little nervous after working full time my entire life, part time every school holidays when I was a teenager, it's time!! \:D/ :unsure: Following the link below https://teacherson.ne...
by macca
15 Mar 2024, 09:47
Forum: Sourcing Materials & Eq Repairs
Topic: Spring Balances
Replies: 14
Views: 5990

Re: Spring Balances

I'm glad it's not just me the decline over the last 20 years is scarey. Even the pracs I'm asked to prepare some days, I feel like a kindergarten assisstant. There needs to be boundies some not all teachers, "the need to be friends with the kids". Build a rapport yes! kids aren't stupid gi...
by macca
14 Mar 2024, 08:28
Forum: Sourcing Materials & Eq Repairs
Topic: Spring Balances
Replies: 14
Views: 5990

Re: Spring Balances

They've stretched the springs, so just going to throw out and replace. Some were old metal ones and old plastic, how you can't see when the kids are doing the wrong thing, I don't know.
by macca
13 Mar 2024, 08:56
Forum: Sourcing Materials & Eq Repairs
Topic: Spring Balances
Replies: 14
Views: 5990

Re: Spring Balances

Morning brains trust,

I've just had a Yr 7 class using the spring balances with 250 gm masses. They have been swinging them to measure angle. Well now most are broken any idea on how I could fix them, trying to get them apart is a nightmare. Or just replace.
by macca
11 Mar 2024, 08:40
Forum: Chemistry and Labware - General
Topic: Free elements sets for schools
Replies: 30
Views: 5743

Re: Free elements sets for schools

love ours, is a lot brighter in colour than the photo. Mounted on a black board.
by macca
07 Mar 2024, 12:44
Forum: Safety with Chemicals
Topic: Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for removal of chemicals
Replies: 10
Views: 647

Re: Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for removal of chemicals

I haven't heard anything about Mercury being banned from schools? The old thermometers have been for years. We still have a sample inside a small glass container sealed inside another labeled container for viewing only kids are allowed to feel the total weight of the container. RiskAssess still has ...
by macca
14 Feb 2024, 09:42
Forum: Announcements
Topic: Welcome back everyone
Replies: 18
Views: 1878

Re: Welcome back everyone

Maybe they just hit the ground and kept running, away... Welcome back!! that's exactly how I felt. Sadly still here. Arrived first day back and Fridge/freezer full of Dissection had gone off!! OMG this is the second time in 29years. Hopfully I never see it again. Our maintenance men removed from th...
by macca
16 Nov 2023, 09:25
Forum: Safety with Chemicals
Topic: nickel sulfate
Replies: 11
Views: 4727

Re: nickel sulfate

We go by RiskAssess as well. CSIS hasn't been updated for decades, the Dept must be waiting for a legal case before they start?? It's bound to happen, one day, sadly. Had to laugh at this, but it isn't really a laughing matter! I went to a general WHS course run by AIS and, can you believe, they sa...
by macca
15 Nov 2023, 11:36
Forum: Safety with Chemicals
Topic: nickel sulfate
Replies: 11
Views: 4727

Re: nickel sulfate

RiskAssess is as followings;

Nickel Sulfate Solid (Tch)
<0.006M (7-12)
0.006M - 0.065M (11-12)
0.065M - 0.16M (Tch)

I only use RiskAssess now
by macca
09 Nov 2023, 09:12
Forum: Chemistry and Labware - General
Topic: Free elements sets for schools
Replies: 30
Views: 5743

Re: Free elements sets for schools

Hi Stuart,

Mine have just arrived and I can't thank you enough they are fantastic, I can't wait to show the chemistry teachers and kids.

Thanks you so much for all your hard work.

As Anna Z said you're a legend
by macca
06 Nov 2023, 13:40
Forum: Chemistry and Labware - General
Topic: Free elements sets for schools
Replies: 30
Views: 5743

Re: Free elements sets for schools

Thank you Stuart, Can't wait till they arrive. Teachers are already excited, the booklet I have printed out for each of them.
by macca
17 Oct 2023, 12:47
Forum: Chemistry and Labware - General
Topic: Safety data sheets
Replies: 10
Views: 2694

Re: Safety data sheets

Lyn wrote: 09 Nov 2021, 17:33 Hi Macca,
Go to the ChemSupply website. You don't have to login. You can access Safety Data Sheets for most of the chemicals that you would have in stock.
I don't know if ths still applies I have used in the past.
by macca
17 Oct 2023, 09:12
Forum: Sourcing Materials & Eq Repairs
Topic: Eyes for dissection
Replies: 28
Views: 12758

Re: Eyes for dissection

Southern Biology - Eyes Frozen 5pkt $28.90 getting to expensive.
by macca
17 Oct 2023, 07:44
Forum: Sourcing Materials & Eq Repairs
Topic: Eyes for dissection
Replies: 28
Views: 12758

Re: Eyes for dissection

We are lucky enough to have a butcher that will get them from a abattoir 3 hours away, he vaccuum packs into class set for me. Our abattoir closed years ago. Eyes are becoming more and more expensive. I just tried to get him to order Hearts, Kidneys & brains and apparently the abattoirs are only...
by macca
08 Aug 2023, 13:20
Forum: Sourcing Materials & Eq Repairs
Topic: pinecone substitute
Replies: 6
Views: 1189

Re: pinecone substitute

Could send out an email around your staff see if anyone has some. I know I have some in my christmas decorations I bring in.
by macca
21 Jul 2023, 12:23
Forum: Chemistry and Labware - General
Topic: A suitable demo?
Replies: 10
Views: 1761

Re: A suitable demo?

We used to do the Flour bomb demonstration, but alway did it outside. Don't seem to have as much fun anymore.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnqPZhX-jtI
by macca
22 Jun 2023, 12:31
Forum: Biology, Physics...
Topic: Blood Slides for biology pracs
Replies: 2
Views: 1271

Re: Blood Slides for biology pracs

As far as I'm aware nothing has changed they still have to be purchased can't be made or obtained from a pathology service. Ours come from Southern Biological.

Let us know if you find anything different.
by macca
13 Jun 2023, 10:38
Forum: Chemistry and Labware - General
Topic: Plastic squeeze bottles for acids and bases
Replies: 2
Views: 1017

Re: Plastic squeeze bottles for acids and bases

We have never had a problem with them, no contamination or spills. Haven't ever had students squirting them. The original lids were prone to cracking but the new ones are fine. We don't use glass dropper bottles anymore, haven't for years.
by macca
08 Jun 2023, 13:04
Forum: Sourcing Materials & Eq Repairs
Topic: Bromine
Replies: 9
Views: 1537

Re: Bromine

I'd be reluctant to have bromine around - bromine water is horrible enough. Me too For those who refuse to make up bromine water from scratch. (had a bad accident). Georgia Deretic who co-wrote Foschem Senior Chemistry gave me a substitute that works just as well and less dangerous. :w00t: Bromine ...