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What ever Westlab is doing is working great . Other forums I am on are now regularly crashing and dead for hours due to these Bot attacks , often with less than 1000 guests .
Chemtalk regularly has 35,000 "guests" online and it is chugging along nicely .
Lets hope it stays this way .

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We've got Diggers Acetone in our Flammables Cabinet.Thats what I send out when requested .No complaints .
There is also the dregs of Bondall HCl in a 5L container in Corrosives .Agree , It's probably just as good for junior classes and probably most senior classes too .I just like to use the smaller ...

I remember going down this route a few years ago in NSW .
Found those same hose barbs . I’m pretty sure Reece's plumbing ordered them in for me . Was bloody expensive IIRC .

Have you asked Westlab ? They do full Lab fitouts so
I’m sure they would have the hose adaptors and standard aerators ...

What she said 100%

incidentally , I believe those metal racks would be Stainless steel .Aluminum doesn't last very long in a dish washer

We just did that I believe Rosalie .
They put Glucose is one tubing and then thoroughly rinsed it and put in a boiling tube and only just cover it in water . Also needed about 5% Glucose solution to work .

Do the same with the starch in tubing .

Then as soon as they have added the water , they ...

An autoclave is a pressure vessel, you must have it checked and tested each 12 months.

That must be a Victorian thing Anna ?

Another ridiculous pile of compliance . For every Highschool pressure cooker there is possibly several hundred in the homes of the students that would never be annually ...

Can't say I've ever heard of getting them tested before . Now you mention it , I'm getting all worried about it .

In the good O'l days , we used a "normal" pressure cooker that had a pressure gauge and a safety valve on it .So long as it reached pressure , you knew you were good .
Now all these ...

RosalieL wrote: 27 Feb 2026, 08:19 PS bigmack - how did you just happen to work this out??

Just happened to accidentally click on "Members" and as they were in Join date order , I took a punt

Well not quite , but not far off .
Friday 12 May 2006 first member voice joined .

New England Lamb Brains. Packaged in these neat red boxes with 4 frozen brains in individual plastic bags.


Yeah , that's the ones .
Hmmm , maybe I might contact them and see if they have a frozen truck going north [-o<


Next time try soaking them in metho for 24 hours. It firms them up a bit ...

Arrrrg
Our local Butcher seems to have changed his supplier of Brains .
I was warned by my Wife who works at another school around here that the brains they got were all mush and totally useless .
Now this is from the same place I get mine and they have always been good .

Well I just got some and ...

PeterK wrote: 20 Feb 2026, 10:54 Think that will move you up the watchlist. We buy all the precursors and then we are suddenly buying a tablet press.

From what I can see , it was listed as suitable for Windows 2000, vista, XP ,win7.
I'm guessing that's why there is no support for it ....and probably why they were gifted to you .

Found it listed on Digitech website but the driver download just returns Forbidden 403 error .

http://www.digitech-i ...

A small point . MSDS were changed to SDS in June 2015
The change from Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) to Safety Data Sheets (SDS) was mandated by OSHA, with the transition officially taking place by June 1, 2015. This change was part of the adoption of the Globally Harmonized System of ...

Was just in Woolies and they have 100 balloons back again

I get mine from Coles .Have 50 packs for $6 in store .

Just got Sodium Acetate Anhydrous from Westlabs ( home brand)
It also has a Chemwatch SDS and is Hazardous whereas the Chem supply brand is not hazardous .

Can't say I've ever seen it before either .
Give them a broom ,goggles and let them have fun.

LOL , don't buy one ......unless you have a big budget and expect to keep spending to keep it working .