Static dissipative PTFE hose is also available. Most available corrugated, also available in smoothbore.
Excellent to have on hand if you’re moving non-conductive hydrocarbons around.
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Hmm, perhaps it’s my shop vacuum hose! I legitimately saw it shoot a spark from the hose to my arm
Either way, even if I don’t use it for media, this thing could be pretty damn handy. I know of a few labs that ought to have been using one of these to clean their ethanol spills…
Does it feature a filter of any sort? I’m assuming it does, and maybe even takes bags, if you’re vacuuming media???
More on the topic of gloves, I also noticed that nitrile gloves suddenly got extremely expensive around the pandemic (thanks Obama). $0.30 a glove was a bit too far. I see some went with food service (the cheap sacrificial layer route) I did vinyl gloves at first, then I went the other way.
These are ~$3 at Lowe’s (probably can get better ones from Uline), and we reuse the shit out of them. Once dirty just wash them with either ethanol or limonene hand cleaner to renew them; the phrase wash your hands means wash your gloves in our lab because the 1 pair is your hands for a week at least. We still use disposables for hazardous stuff/delicate work (acetone, xylene, etc.) but 95% of what we use is EtOH, isopropanol, and KOH.
They do degrade over time so we down cycle them. They’re not good for handling finished products or filling carts since they’re a bit looser, but for formulating/mixing, bagging material, extraction, running distillation and cleaning glass/equipment, they’re great.
Once they’re too dirty to touch food products, they run equipment, then cleaning glass/equipment, then dirty/stanky cleaning of distillation flask and handling the vacuum pump.
1 pair can easily save you 100 gloves (usually more if you don’t wear them using tools) and they’re actually quite comfy.
Uline 15 mil gloves.
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Curious why obama has anything to do with prices of gloves, or why we should ever believe someone who makes such a claim?
Just like that piece of dog shit trump made tons of false claims.
Or do you also believe windmills are bad?
Or, wait, the great awakening is coming, and trump will become president again on Jan/April/aug
Elon Musk will become president not Orange Man
Not a trump person, it’s an old meme. Remember when people would blame obama for everything and they’d say thanks obama?
Seems we live in a post joke society
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Elon Musk trick of the trade:
Expose penis for horsie payout.
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Joke isn’t funny
LOL I GUESS NO ONE HAS A SENSE OF HUMOR ANY MORE WOE IS ME
You weren’t funny, it’s not a post joke society
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If I had his money I’d give out horses.
Horses for hand jobs, a great campaign slogan.
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Bro a horse isn’t a gift, it’s a financial burden
He didn’t realize he was threatening that poor woman
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It was actually a threat! He actually told a VERY threatening and not funny joke.
“WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN YOU AND A HORSE!? NOTHING YOU’RE BOTH GOING TO END UP IN A GLUE BOTTLE”
He is a menace that needs to be dealt with. Help us, Aquaman.
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Malice was assumed even though it was evidently meant as humor (juxtapose Obama and pandemic, two things separated in time) and he was incorrect. That’s all. Let’s all chill. Perhaps the snark was unbecoming of me. My bad
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I didn’t mean to snap, that was the first thing As i was caffeinating this morning
My bad
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All good bro, my b on the snark.
Fun fact I actually liked Obama
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Lmao theres a pope that reminds me of this
Yes brothers come together!
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Not exactly as I had hoped but not so bad at all
To clean out crystals on a fuge
Slight modifications and it should work
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I actually did, too.