Yep, we left home on the 7th May last year. Now but a distant memory.
Sadly, it is also nearly a year since my dad passed away.
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- 29 Apr 2024, 12:21
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: Welcome back to term 2
- Replies: 6
- Views: 111
- 29 Apr 2024, 07:50
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: Welcome back to term 2
- Replies: 6
- Views: 111
Re: Welcome back to term 2
Last term was one of the longest eleven weeks of my life! It seemed to drag on for ever and I was so pleased to have two weeks off. This time last year, I was in the final two weeks before heading off on 14 weeks leave, which ended up being five months but that's another story. Nothing as exciting t...
- 29 Apr 2024, 07:45
- Forum: Safety with Chemicals
- Topic: Chemical Storage
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2275
Re: Chemical Storage
For NSW Schools, look on the Safework NSW website for the Code of Practice for Hazardous Chemicals. This details information that you need on a manifest and what you need on a register. For most of us, we only need a register which requires less information. There's also some handy info on labelling...
- 27 Mar 2024, 10:05
- Forum: Safety with Chemicals
- Topic: Chemical Storage
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2275
Re: Chemical Storage
Five metres? Yeah, good luck with that in most school prep rooms/chem stores!
You're right, you work with what you have. Also good to remember, in the grand scheme of things, we are working with small quantities.
You're right, you work with what you have. Also good to remember, in the grand scheme of things, we are working with small quantities.
- 27 Mar 2024, 10:03
- Forum: Free classifieds - 4 sale/swap/wanted/giveaway
- Topic: Wanted .Copy of "Working in Science"
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2009
Re: Wanted .Copy of "Working in the Science"
I only have a hard copy. Keep me in mind if no one comes forward. I am just snowed under to find time try and scan it.
- 26 Mar 2024, 10:50
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Cleaning of Wicks Used in Alkanols prac
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1974
Re: Cleaning of Wicks Used in Alkanols prac
LOL I think I cobbled those Labels on Chemwatch and as I wasn't allowed to use a colour printer , I drew over the GHS symbols with a Red Pen :cheesy: Spirit lamps.jpg The reason I got in thehabit of filtering the spirit back into the saver bottles was due to all the rust and crustys in the burners ...
- 26 Mar 2024, 06:39
- Forum: Safety with Chemicals
- Topic: Chemical Storage
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2275
Re: Chemical Storage
Segregate according the dangerous goods code is the simplest. Although DGC now only apply to transport, there is no issue with using this system for storage as it clearly states what can and can't be stored together eg oxidisers are to be stored a long way from flammables. Happy for you to PM me and...
- 26 Mar 2024, 06:33
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Cleaning of Wicks Used in Alkanols prac
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1974
Re: Cleaning of Wicks Used in Alkanols prac
Yep - just label the spirit lamps and use the same ones for each chemical each time. I empty the lamps into a labelled bottle like Loopy does, but I put just leave the wicks in the lamps and store in the chem store (which is properly ventilated). Great that you have reached out for help. We are all ...
- 19 Mar 2024, 06:33
- Forum: Biology, Physics...
- Topic: frozen hearts - help!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2046
Re: frozen hearts - help!
That's depressing. I hate it when brand new stuff comes back damaged.
- 18 Mar 2024, 11:39
- Forum: Biology, Physics...
- Topic: frozen hearts - help!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2046
Re: frozen hearts - help!
Soak them in a bucket with nappysan overnight at least, then throw in the machine. What comes out comes out and what doesn't - depends how fussy your school is.
President lab coats sell theirs for a pretty good price and great quality if you need to replace.
President lab coats sell theirs for a pretty good price and great quality if you need to replace.
- 15 Mar 2024, 11:35
- Forum: Sourcing Materials & Eq Repairs
- Topic: Spring Balances
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6785
Re: Spring Balances
Watched a teacher, new to us but ten years plus experience, be given the role of Year 10 patron who then went onto try to be "mates" with all his students. Cooking pancakes in the labs on his from home gas stove (I put a stop to that), making hot chocolates for them all. It was driving me ...
- 15 Mar 2024, 08:02
- Forum: Biology, Physics...
- Topic: frozen hearts - help!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2046
Re: frozen hearts - help!
No help to you now, but all the rules about defrosting meat in the fridge is the assumption you are going to eat it. Leaving them on a bench overnight would be fine. Probably doesn't matter if the hearts are still a little firm. Not sure on the pluck. Never had one that was frozen! Great idea using ...
- 14 Mar 2024, 08:41
- Forum: Sourcing Materials & Eq Repairs
- Topic: Spring Balances
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6785
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. I'm seeing more of that in recent times. Kids not being respectful, more inexperienced teachers that don't have g...
- 13 Mar 2024, 09:56
- Forum: Chemistry and Labware - General
- Topic: Waste from Redox Reactions
- Replies: 2
- Views: 680
Re: Waste from Redox Reactions
I can't help except to ask if you subscribe to Science Assist? Comparatively small fee which gives you access to a lot of resources, including the ability to ask questions and have them answered by experts. Really useful for those tricky problems.
- 13 Mar 2024, 09:04
- Forum: Sourcing Materials & Eq Repairs
- Topic: Spring Balances
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6785
Re: Spring Balances
I've had good intentions and tried to repair. In the end, the broken ones ended up in the bin and I bought new ones. Maybe other people are more patient than me though!
Yeah, swinging them just sounds like a bad idea.
Yeah, swinging them just sounds like a bad idea.
- 11 Mar 2024, 07:52
- Forum: Safety with Chemicals
- Topic: Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for removal of chemicals
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1411
Re: Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for removal of chemicals
The trouble is, not everyone is "sensible". Students cannot be relied upon to be "sensible". Incidents will happen because we aren't being "sensible". The severity of those incidents will be determined by the level of risk associated with the activity. If teachers want ...
- 06 Mar 2024, 14:35
- Forum: Safety with Chemicals
- Topic: Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for removal of chemicals
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1411
Re: Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for removal of chemicals
Welcome aboard! I don't think you would need to be as detailed as that. Having a list of chemicals going out for disposal, with a date they were collected would be sufficient. Ensure that your chemical register is updated to show any chemicals that are gone for good. When chemicals are collected, do...
- 04 Mar 2024, 10:21
- Forum: Biology, Physics...
- Topic: rat dissection
- Replies: 23
- Views: 12691
Re: rat dissection
Piglets from Dissection Connection. We've never used rats.
Just done as a class demo.
Just done as a class demo.
- 29 Feb 2024, 14:33
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: Welcome back everyone
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3005
Re: Welcome back everyone
My Coordinator and I had a similar theory. That someone has raced back in to put it away and thumped it a bit too hard, causing a slight crack. Then with a bit of pressure - ka-pop. We restrict who can access the chem store but I did have a heap of time off last year. It hasn't happened before, than...
- 27 Feb 2024, 11:21
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: Welcome back everyone
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3005
Re: Welcome back everyone
My ones from Adelab have a finger hole piece next to the opening. Think Jug Band style. (And for a laugh, or maybe make you cry - I'm never sure which- Look for the Christmas Jug Band singing "Daddy's Drinking Up Our Christmas". It is appalling and I am always, always confused about how I ...