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Thank you both for your help.

Can anyone tell me where I can purchase prepared Nutrient Agar plates?

Wow, I also am impressed! I have done the school calendar up to end of 2014, the Isolation Room booklets for all four terms next year, the Student Handbook for 2012, helped just a little with the School magazine, help SAM with CEPS and writing cheques; all in my spare time of which I have very littl...

Hi Rosalie, The sodium sticks are just the way the sodium was here when I arrived: kind of long thick stilvery sticks under paraffin in a large, long tin with sealable lid. I always just called them sodium sticks because to me, sodium is salt that you put on your chips!! Glad people are finding the ...

Here it is - hope the attachment works. Hope the list works for you - you can add or delete whatever you need - obviously.

Best way to contact me is by email, because I am lucky to get onto this site once a term!!

Sorry, was disturbed and had to disconnect... I usually have a stocklist printed and left in my Chem Store, one in my desk drawer, and another on a shelf in my "everyday" chemical cupboard. Whenever I use the last of a particular chemical I mark it off the list so when I get to a computer ...

Hi Rae, I refer to your question way back in May 2011 - sorry I didn't get back to you earlier. Smaller containers of chemicals I can take to the local tip, and just put them in the correct chemical section (they have areas marked for Oxidising, Toxic, etc). So I can do that, or usually I see if I c...

Yep, we also buy our stuff from Impulsports - ALL our textbooks, for whatever Science subject, plus all our exams. Much, much cheaper than anyone else, plus usually free delivery, and always within the week! IMPULSPORTS Address PO Box 14, KURRAJONG Phone: 1800-812-795 Fax: 02) 4567-7633 Contact ther...

Just to update anyone who may be interested - all the items have been "dispersed". Nothing available anymore.

Sorry about that.

I have spoken to HT about the electrical needs, but nobody here seems worried. They all have absolute faith in the contractors from the DET!! No. 1 - I don't want the lift; I don't want it blocking ALL the sunshine and natural light into our Staff room; I don't want to lose half my store room, and I...

If you are near Port Macquarie - we have the following items which I wish to have removed: Reagent bottles - approx 50 x 250ml (new and used) TO GIVE AWAY Ring clamps - 12 x approx 50mm - $3-00 for the lot Round bottomed flasks - 4 x 250ml (Mowbray); 2 x 250ml (Schott) $2-00 each . I am gradually cl...

Our Science block (6 Labs, 4 Prep rooms, 1 staff room, and 3 store rooms, plus Chem store) has been unable to get air-conditioning due to the fact the electrical system is not powerful enough to support it (so I have been told). In fact, we can no longer have any new lights because the connections a...

Thanks Rosalie, we ended up ordering the ones from Haines - exactly what we needed.

Thank you all for your assistance - fantastic site, this one.

Thanks CAG and Jen1, I will contact both places and check them out. I usually keep all those details, but for some reason I must have slackened off! Thanks again.

Some years ago we purchased some small, blue plastic dynamics carts, with grey metal wheels. They were only cheap, but very good (says my teaching staff). However, I have no idea where I bought them from - does anyone have any to sell / give away / or know where I can purchase more? They are NOT the...

From Marilyn Martin at GL Senior College, Forster: Marilyn has discovered that small freezer bags work as well as dialysis tubing in the diffusion prac starch & Iodine. Students fill a corner of bag with a small amount of starch, tie a knot in the end of bag and immerse in water with Iodine sol'...

Oh well, must be me. I discreetly dispose of anything not used in 4 years, and nobody ever seems to request it again. I also delete it from my stocklists and remove any MSDS sheets I had. However, we have a new HT who "apparently" likes the less is more idea. I am quietly hopeful some time...

Just curious, if the product hasn't been used in the 18 years you have been working there, why do you still have it??? I don't mean to sound rude, but why would you keep something that hasn't been requested in all that time?

I'm with Sunray18 - I do my stocktake every year (just for Science, not the entire school). I also have it on my computer on a spreadsheet. Nobody has ever (in 13 years) asked to see it, checked it, wanted to see or check it; nor has anyone ever asked how, why or when I do the stocktake. Never, ever...

Whereabouts on/ion Utube did you find the clip?? Could you give me the site address please?