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OfflineGeneric
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buying scalpel blades
    #19378401 - 01/06/14 05:59 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

Amazon - 100 scalpels #22

I already have a scalpel, but what kind of blades are best for agar.  Do some pick up the agar wedge more easily than other types?




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Re: buying scalpel blades [Re: Generic]
    #19378452 - 01/06/14 06:07 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

I am wondering the same thing. I made a mess of my agar yesterday when I went to cut away a contam for my first time. The agar was slipping off the knife like wet soap. Honestly, I think it would be like that no matter what you used. Maybe consider investing in an inoculation loop.


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Re: buying scalpel blades [Re: Sgt. Pepper]
    #19378474 - 01/06/14 06:10 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

agar is weay to cut, i use to use a number 11 but i now use an exacto knife lol


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Re: buying scalpel blades [Re: cronicr]
    #19378493 - 01/06/14 06:14 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

i use number 11......sometimes 23....depends on my mood....i stock both of them.


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Re: buying scalpel blades [Re: cronicr]
    #19378499 - 01/06/14 06:14 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

It's like cutting through jello, you could do it with a butter knife honestly, just most people don't wanna ruin their kitchen knives by heating them red hot.


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Re: buying scalpel blades [Re: Sgt. Pepper]
    #19378872 - 01/06/14 07:20 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

I like a #22 blade, but that's what I grew up on in grade school dissections through collegiate gross anatomy.
It's got a nice wide shovel if you come in at a shallow angle, so you can make your perpendicular cuts to section the wedge, and then turn the blade as parallel to the agar as you can and take a swoop, slicing off just the top layer at a slight angle and getting a thinner slice to transfer to new plates.


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Re: buying scalpel blades [Re: CliftonGK1]
    #19379137 - 01/06/14 08:08 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

+1 for X-acto knives.  But most real men use a Rambo knife..... 

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Re: buying scalpel blades [Re: Jeeter]
    #19379321 - 01/06/14 08:37 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

#11 are my favorite. I have probably about 100 disposables I got from work. Allows for some pretty exact cuts.


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Re: buying scalpel blades [Re: rawrrock]
    #19379562 - 01/06/14 09:32 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

#11 here as well, they are good for getting into test tubes if you keep stock cultures too.


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Re: buying scalpel blades [Re: cronicr]
    #19379853 - 01/06/14 10:24 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

Quote:

cronicr said:
agar is weay to cut, i use to use a number 11 but i now use an exacto knife lol




How does that work for you compared to scalpels?


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Re: buying scalpel blades [Re: fractaldill]
    #19379869 - 01/06/14 10:26 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

it works fine, it cuts and stabs like a scalpel just a little lunkier to manuver


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