From owner-celegans@net.bio.net Wed Oct 15 23:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: newsmgr@merrimack.edu Newsgroups: bionet.celegans Subject: plate pourers Date: 16 Oct 1997 06:39:33 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 90 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: wmorgan@acs.wooster.edu Distribution: world Message-ID: <6255el$qip@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Relay-Version: ANU News - V6.2.0 06/23/97 OpenVMS AXP V6.2; site chasm Path: chasm!cam-news-feed2.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-feed4.bb nplanet.com!cpk-news-feed1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.ums.edu!news.um bc.edu!eisenman Newsgroups: bionet.celegans Subject: plate pourers Message-ID: From: eisenman@umbc.edu (David M. Eisenmann) Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:54:18 -0400 Organization: UMBC - Biological Sciences Lines: 29 NNTP-Posting-Host: macbio471-2.biosci.umbc.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: Yet Another NewsWatcher 2.4.0 Hi All, I'm in the market for a plate-pourer, and having never used one (we were spoiled at Stanford) I was wondering what brands/types people would recommend or not recommend. It seems there are several brands out there to choose from; Tritech PourBoy II Sepco machine Wheaton Omni-pour Cole-Palmer machine (still made) Barnant Varistaltic Jencons Perimatic New Brunswick DP200 Mandel Scientific machine (recommended by Dave Baillie the last time this came up) Any advice is greatly appreciated. Dave -------------- David M. Eisenmann Dept. of Biological Sciences University of Maryland Baltimore County 1000 Hilltop Circle Baltimore, MD 21250 phone: (410)455-2256 fax: (410)455-3875 ****Moderator's Note: Because this posting may prompt replies from commercial suppliers, let me remind readers of the BIOSCI Commercial Use Policy (excerpted below) to which moderators must adhere. W.R. Morgan**** >BIOSCI Commercial Use Policy >---------------------------- >Moderators should note that the BIOSCI commercial use policy also >governs the approval decision. BIOSCI does not permit use of the >newsgroups for commercial purposes regardless of how relevant a >product might be to research discussed on the moderator's newsgroup. >If we were to make exceptions to this policy, the newsgroup system >would quickly degenerate into a forum for unlimited commercial >announcements and readership would plummet. > >If you have any doubts about whether or not a message promotes a >commercial product for financial gain, simply return it to the sender >and ask them to include a disclaimer stating that they have no >financial connections with the item/product mentioned in their >message. If they will not do so, tell them that you can not distribute >their message. If anyone gives you a hard time, please refer them to >biosci-help@net.bio.net and we will handle the issue. > >A commercial concern may *reply* to messages which specifically name >that company's product. This exemption does not allow commercial >replies to general questions like "Does anyone know of a product which >does X?" Such questions need to be answered only by people who are >not connected to the manufacturer and who do not stand to gain >financially from the response. Please refer to the BIOSCI FAQ for a >detailed explanation of the commercial use policy. > >Scientists **with no financial connections** to the products under >discussion are free to post notes about commercial products. It is >common procedure to include a disclaimer in any posting about products >disavowing any commercial interest in the product under discussion. >Producers of products that might be relevant to the topic at hand >should stand aside and let the scientists themselves engage in >discussion unless products are specifically named. Even in the latter >case, commercial responses about a company's product should be >strictly factual, avoiding both marketing hype and comparisons to >competitors. .