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Modern Teaching Aids bought Serrata out and have those resistors available.

It was sort of like not having your mobile phone on you went out... WESTLAB came to the rescue. forever grateful!

Morning, Nickykinz, I have had a Smeg GW0160 for a couple of years, and yes very fancy shmancy. Personally for the money it costs, and school usage, a domestic dishwasher is more then adequate but I appreciate "the powers that be" like to feel they are choosing top of the line eqipment. Se...

You people are all too smart for me... my advice would have been not to snort it!

I always empty spirit lamps into bottles labelled eg "Used Butanol from spirit lamp " So I can store in appropriate area in the chem store and it is ready to be used again for next time. The wicks I dry out in the fume cupboard and store in ziplock bags labelled accordingly eg "butano...

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!

Morning everyone, I use small foil trays sent out with the matches. They are marked "used matches" and I am very happy when they are returned with used matches. This has stopped matches down the sink and in bunsens but, my issue is that they get emptied into the fire bucket before they are...

Agreed bigmack!

Oh Macca! I try and try to find out the scope and sequence for the year, but do you think I am privvy to it? i am definitely getting too old, I can't be bothered chasing it up. I am completely happy with the fact they must submit requests 48hrs in advance and even better if the prac requires a groce...

Morning Rosalie,
We give students 6 A4 sheets of paper (great for used paper) and 1 metre of masking tape. Teacher drops egg standing on a ladder (from approx. 2.5 metres high). Always interesting to see how students think!

Ditto Labbie!

Hi Macca,
MTA have them. 1l and 2.5L .

A small amount of mashed banana and iodine stain.

Hi Rosalie, We use aprons for junior classes (vinyl type) that are hung on hooks in the labs. We provide lab coats for seniors that they care for during their time of senior science and at the end of Yr12 they wash them and return to us for the next lot coming through. I wipe down the junior aprons ...

OMG! Can they challenge us with more things? I have carefully hoarded these things too.

I have read somewhere that balloons are being considered for banning. Alternative - sheep stomach?

Don't ya just hate that!....

Morning Everyone, These Stile pracs are doing my head in! And I agree with Merilyn1 about food wastage. There are days when I ask myself are we science or are we food tech! Next week we are going into Oreo Moon Phases... I ask you, do we really need to supply so many Oreo biscuits that we buy the su...

The old saying, chemicals don't stop fuming just because we go home...

Morning my fellow colleagues, I recently discovered that 1 part vinegar to 1 part 3% hydrogen peroxide cleans up potassium permanganate stains a treat! This morning I tried putting some in a small beaker of potassium permanganate waste and it went clear. Are there any chemists out there who could te...

Thanks for all your input folks. I do have an email login with Westlab but just not one attached to an account. I think I will take the weekend to consider my choices. I, like you all, don't have time to farnarkle around chasing up things that. I don't know about you guys, but I am tiring of having ...