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I really hope so Labbie....I voiced my concerns about the lack of guidance I am feeling ATM about practical realistic ways to label droppers and tiny containers of Chems to comply with GHS labeling requirements and the contridictory advice we all seem to be getting regarding this. I like CSIS ..it h...

My offsider I share my job with wraps rubber bands around the ends of thermometers...stops them rolling off benches. We keep them in drawer in th boxes they came in , minus the plastic tubes.......they get stored with the straws and are good for dropping KMnO4 Crystals into beakers for convection cu...

If you are a lab assistant in a NSW DEC school, have you seen the current issue of SchoolBiz (through the portal). Under the heading PROGRAM UPDATES, there is an article in relation to a review of the CSIS package inviting employees to participate in a survey. I completed it this morning, it only t...

Nice info Lyn . wonder what defines this SECTION 14. Transport information (continued) Special precautions for user : Avoid transport on vehicles where the load space is not separated from the driver's compartment. My van has a cargo barrier ...it might keep a lion out of the drivers compartment but...

It typically takes nearly an hour to print one label on Chemwatch ....because the NSW DET computer system is so bloody slow , I spend most of the time watching the 'doing something" wheel going round and round , only to find what I'm seaching for is the wrong one , so onto the next one and so o...

Thanks Sunray18 At my other school I found two of these Silform Diffusion Cloud Chambers in almost usable condition ....but they looked like they haven't been used in years . The radiation sources were nowhere to be seen . One box still had the original 90V battery in it but it was dead flat and som...

I could believe that at either Dorrigo or Religh Tip

I recon the hottest selling Item at next years SLAMN will be Approved labels to suit all our typical containers

With every purchase , a notification to the WHS Auditers to leave you till last

Did you go bigmack? That was my understanding - to cover up old labels. No superbug I didn't go so perhaps I should not be commenting. You're confident in your understanding of what you heard , and so are others .I can't say who has it right and I don't care about that . But I am now confused . I'm...

This sort of thing is quite annoying ....how can a presenter address such a basic concept as covering labels yet it come across so obviously different to people that attend . When is the new CSIS coming out ? It is now the middle of February and we still have no Black and white so go by and the cloc...

Hi glenpaul . Just wondering what type you have . Here's a few things about them I have discovered while trying to get one to work for us .....If, I'm telling you how to suck eggs , sorry ....otherwise I hope it is useful to you or others. I am no expert but this is from my playing with them . The b...

Hmmm wounder what they do in the AG plot when they find a dead chicken . .......probably bury it .

I seriously doubt they take it to the local waste station and pay to get ride of it.

Thanks Liz....that's interesting .I love it when things have labels on them .
See what you mean about Dew point apparatus though ......Even with wildest imagination , Its hard to see how this could be used .

At least its a lead .Thanks again

Interesting to hear two of you have them . Its obviously a school apparatus then . I like the idea of a coffee perculator :cheesy: Intersetingly the only google help was that the mob that made them also made anesthetic machines . I had wondered if perhaps it was a crude Chloroform generator . Put al...

Found this interesting piece in the bottom of the Physics Lab . Dosen't necessarily mean its got any thing to do with Physics ....or for that matter School science equipment . It consists of two equal sized copper tanks that each have a stop cock ( Tap ) on them . Between the two tanks is a dividing...

....have to have the top open so it vents .. To clarify .....the thermos flask has a screw on lid but it has a pressure relief vent. Was told to always have the vent open so it does not build up pressure and explode as the Nitrogen slowly warms inside . You want to get it just before its needed as ...

I get ours from the local Vet . Not sure about Ice-cream making and how much you need but I get about a liter and it costs $20 . The physics teacher uses it for superconductor experiment .......then its dibs by the other teachers ...frozen leaves ...frozen tennis balls .......classroom disco :whistl...

Thanks Merilyn1 ...That was what I was hoping would be a reasonable way to deal with it . Incidentally , how did you dispose of the suspect kits .....just that we have shelves full of poorly labled rocks that we have know idea what is what . My offsider is suggesting that the DET will send around a ...

Just went through our boxes from "geological specimen supplies" Turramarra ...these kits are dated 1986-1990. I could not find any of the mentioned samples from the WHS sheet so can I be confident that these are OK ? I found these guys on the WEB but when I ring the number (02) 9488 8162 t...