[Hplusroadmap] Fwd: Re: Equipment acquisition for homebrewers

[Bryan Bishop]

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Subject: Re: Equipment acquisition for homebrewers
Date: Sunday 29 June 2008
From: "John Cumbers" <johncumbers at gmail.com>
To: diybio at googlegroups.com

Bryan,
I think the equipment you want depends on what you want to with it... so 
you should think about that first.. However, after equipping a lab with 
various second hand, sketchy quality but -still expensive- incubators 
in the not-so-distant past, I realized that...

there is little difference between a shaking incubator / water bath and 
a bread maker...
http://www.amazon.com/Cuisinart-PSC-400-Programmable-Brushed-Stainless/dp/B000VA7JL2/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF8&s=home-garden&qid=1214756771&sr=1-12

or a non-shaking incubator / water bath and a crock pot..
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B00067REBU/ref=sr_1_olp_1?ie=UTF8&s=home-garden&qid=1214756828&sr=1-1

So if it is bacterial cultures that you want to get going... then you 
could try going to the local thrift stores, they are full of crock 
pots, breadmakers and who know what else...

John


John Cumbers, Graduate Student, NASA Ames Research Center
Mail Stop 239-20, Bldg N239 Rm 371 Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA.
cell +1 (401) 523 8190, fax +1 (650) 604-1088

Graduate Program in Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Biochemistry
Brown University, Box G-W Providence, RI, 02912, USA

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