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-LuciferX-

To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless
hours the outer and inner world, not as they appear to an animal obsessed with
survival or to a human being obsessed with words and notions, but as they are
apprehended, directly and unconditionally, by Mind at Large -- this is an
experience of inestimable value to everyone and especially to the intellectual.
-- Aldous Huxley, "The Doors of Perception"

1. When you puncture the tape doesn't it get contams from the outside of the tape ono the needle, and into the jar?

2. When the puncture holes are rusted, and you are reusing the jars, don't microscopic flecks of rust (contam) get in the jar.

3. Don't contams fall off the tape exposed to the holes?

I have had sucess at least as far as colonzation using masking tape, with rusted holes and such, but I just wonder...

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Away!

and as for rust getting onto the cakes, well, rust doesn't multiply, since its not alive, so its not a problem. of course, if you consider rust a contam, then i don't know how you would sterilize your jar, heat won't destroy rust, just kill any real contams on it. (which is all you need)

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[This message has been edited by Joe Bong (edited May 08, 2000).]

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-ChesterCopperpott-
"Old enough to know better, young enough to do it anyway."

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"Old enough to know better, young enough to do it anyway."