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| Guillaume123 | "Reply to ctoft musings, Your (ctoft) experiments with the PLab 3.0 spectrometer and PLab oil-test kit prototypes demonstrated the requirement to b..." | Read more » | almost 9 years ago | |||
| warren | "Hi Don - why would they be unreliable; false positives? Poor calibration? Any links I could read up on? " | Read more » | almost 9 years ago | |||
| mathew | "oh shoot I missed that. they looked like straight ties. thanks. " | Read more » | over 9 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "The ones I linked to have the hole in one end that the other end can pass through. " | Read more » | over 9 years ago | |||
| mathew | "@eustatic's straps had that cinch down bit that I like-- they're a little more, but those are also cheaper on Amazon. http://www.amazon.com/Black-V..." | Read more » | over 9 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "It looks like McMaster sells them for $5-6 per pack of ten. Here are 50 ties for $6: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000F5K82A/ref=pe_385040_30332200_TE_..." | Read more » | over 9 years ago | |||
| mathew | "I'm buying a bunch of these from McMaster to try out as a cable tie replacement in the kit. http://www.mcmaster.com/#6605k23/=u1tmx6 " | Read more » | over 9 years ago | |||
| eustatic | "Thumping sounds awesome. what note does the balloon make? at 1.3kg lift? like, a tuner could measure that? maybe put chalk in the kit? the bagg..." | Read more » | over 9 years ago | |||
| mathew | "balloon diameter is a good method-- the balloon is pretty spherical. @jbreen marks the wall with measurements before inflating. " | Read more » | over 9 years ago | |||
| liz | "yay switching out the swivels! Now i'm also interested in who has a good method of determining if the balloon is inflated enough. I do "arm's lengt..." | Read more » | over 9 years ago | |||
| mathew | "lets see if we can source some of these and do force tests on them. We just switched out the swivels for better ones, I'm into continuously improv..." | Read more » | over 9 years ago | |||
| warren | "indeed. Updating now! " | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| bsugar | "sure thing. maybe add something on this page that says "most recent parts list here" where here is the wiki page. " | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| warren | "Hi, Benjamin - I think we're now going off the parts list on the oil testing kit page: http://publiclab.org/wiki/oil-testing-kit#Parts+list Yes, I..." | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| bsugar | "a confusion about the parts list on the line about the laser: "or http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/350812684726?lpid=82 to buy just one cuvettes" two..." | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| mathew | "Boom. " | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| stevie | "I did post the ones we were looking at on the page here: http://publiclab.org/wiki/oil-testing-kit#Parts+list Or the direct links to the ones we w..." | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| warren | "Actually @stevie and @natalie are sourcing new bottles right now, maybe you can get in on the order. We're hoping to switch to nail polish bottles,..." | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| bsugar | "would the ones from ebay that I posted in the comment above be a good replacement? Cats you say? Then the cat gobo is for sure 1000% necessary. W..." | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| mathew | "you just want a beam. the other tops that are cats and stars and octopuses are not helpful. " | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| bsugar | "also, the recommended laser pointer comes with 5 different tops. are those necessary or will the standard tops do? http://www.ebay.com/itm/405nm-..." | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| mathew | "actually, we did buy out all the rest of their stock. " | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| bsugar | "is this the one that is shown in the picture at the top? It's 45mm tall, and 3.5ml. http://www.ebay.com/itm/STANDARD-GLASS-CUVETTE-OPEN-TOP-WITH-..." | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| bsugar | "American Science and Surplus is out of the square glass bottles: http://www.sciplus.com/p/WHITCAP-BOTTLE_48212 I called them and they said that th..." | Read more » | almost 10 years ago |