Christmas has come early!

[JingleJoe]

A laboratory in town is throwing out all it's used equipment, naturally I haven been there on 3 occasions now but only on the very latest occasion was I succesful in retreiving some scientific doohickeys



There will of course be more to come

[Utini420]

Boo ya!

[JingleJoe]

They blinded me with science and then my camera's battery ran out (you can see the beakers and things better in the reflection in the window!)

Spoiler: Also, bungs! (click to show/hide)

[Flynn MacCallister]

O.o What sort of lab? (Most of our glassware is used until it breaks, and then it has to be incinerated or sealed in concrete and buried...)

[JingleJoe]

O.o What sort of lab? (Most of our glassware is used until it breaks, and then it has to be incinerated or sealed in concrete and buried...)

Thats how one should be using thier glassware it is an old university building.

[Rowan of Rin]

You basically have an unending supply of glassware...I am quit envious! Just make sure you don't unleash a deadly plague onto the world (or is that your plan? You never know with mad scientists..).

[JingleJoe]

You basically have an unending supply of glassware

Not quite ... the reason they are throwing all thier old stuff out is because they are moving, the building is empty no more science inside because it's all in a skip outside

[Flynn MacCallister]

O.o What sort of lab? (Most of our glassware is used until it breaks, and then it has to be incinerated or sealed in concrete and buried...)

Thats how one should be using thier glassware it is an old university building.

This is a university, too. O.o

My boyfriend's supervisor poisoned and killed their pet fish by accident because he made it a tunnel to put in its tank out of some old equipment that he was sure he had cleaned well enough -- soaked, scrubbed, soaked some more, scrubbed some more, and so on -- and he's a schmot guy. Obviously, he couldn't get it clean enough. TT^TT Poor fishie... he was just trying to make it happy...

So, yeah. If they haven't felt the need to incinerate 'em, they're probably safe (undergrad lab surplus, maybe?), but I'd still not be tempted to use them for anything food-related!

[Rowan of Rin]

I tried growing a terrarium in an old volumetric flask...I have a feeling I didn't clean in well enough, I have never seen a plant become so...dead.

[Flynn MacCallister]

On the other hand, that might have been a problem of aeration... aren't terrariums meant to have either air circulation to the outside, or a mini-ecosystem that's balanced enough that they don't need it? The shape of a volumetric flask (large bulb, very narrow neck) doesn't really lend itself to air circulation to the outside... your plant might just have suffocated itself. *Shrugs* I don't know... all I know about plants, really, is that if they get floppy, you need to water them, and if they get yellow or start growing too much on one side or in one direction, they need more light. Works well if you're just trying to grow herbs on a windowsill!

[Angus McCarthy]

You basically have an unending supply of glassware

Not quite ... the reason they are throwing all thier old stuff out is because they are moving, the building is empty no more science inside because it's all in a skip outside

Or at least it was... right? 

[alfa1]

A laboratory in town is throwing out all it's used equipment...

One notes that you were careful to not reveal its location to anyone else. 

[Sir Nikolas Vendigroth]

I can't go 'cos I'm a student there 

[Utini420]

And the guy passing out old lab ware would know that, how?

[zpyder]

Reminds me of the story some of my lecturers turned colleagues told me, of how much lab equipment goes missing at Uni. One time they were invited to a party at a PHD students place, and when they arrived and went in the kitchen for drinks, they found one of the large pestle and mortars that had gone missing from the lab. The guy turned green when he was told that they were regularly used to grind up dried sewage.

It's amazing how many people continue to eat and drink in some of the labs, even after being told that the desk they are working on the week before had dead bodies on, and the week before that had slurry being processed :| And those are the least harmful things...

When one of our labs was getting cleared out to make space for a new wall, a lot of cupboards had to be emptied and a lot of kit was going to be thrown out. I couldn't believe the wastage, and grabbed what I could, but made a point of only getting the unused stuff. This amounted to unused heating tubes and a lot of plastic bottles pretty much.

[JingleJoe]

A laboratory in town is throwing out all it's used equipment...

One notes that you were careful to not reveal its location to anyone else.  

Of course

And the guy passing out old lab ware would know that, how?

Oh no one is passing it out I had to scale a fence



Oh and don't worry Mr Zpyder, I don't plan to use this stuff for consumption of things, I will acctually be using it for science

[Utini420]

Yeah, now that's how its done!

[zpyder]

Oh and don't worry Mr Zpyder, I don't plan to use this stuff for consumption of things, I will acctually be using it for science

Mad science I hope!

[JingleJoe]

Oh and don't worry Mr Zpyder, I don't plan to use this stuff for consumption of things, I will acctually be using it for science

Mad science I hope!

You betcha

[Dr von Zarkov]

Skips or dumpsters at universities have long been excellent sources of discarded equipment. As already mentioned, one must be aware of potential hazards in the goods.

I once worked at a lab which buried tons of instrumentation because it was either (1) radioactive or (2) classified Secret. This was in Connecticut (USA), near Wesleyan University.

Let's hope you find more, especially antique devices with no harmful effects.

[zpyder]

Skips or dumpsters at universities have long been excellent sources of discarded equipment. As already mentioned, one must be aware of potential hazards in the goods.

This has also reminded me of another occasion at uni where a lot of the old glass chemical bottles were getting skipped. Supposedly they had been washed out. So in go the bottles with a satisfying crunching and cracking noise. On a return trip with several more bottles, I noticed some steam coming from the skip. Needless to say the bottles were not all entirely empty, but thankfully whatever was reacting in there soon stopped :|

[Flynn MacCallister]

Oh and don't worry Mr Zpyder, I don't plan to use this stuff for consumption of things, I will acctually be using it for science

Damn fine form!