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cronicr



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Re: Post Your New Tools Of The Trade. [Re: feldman114]
#26362719 - 12/05/19 10:29 AM (4 years, 5 months ago) |
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It's for a soldering iron
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SunnyDayze
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Re: Post Your New Tools Of The Trade. [Re: cronicr] 1
#26362802 - 12/05/19 11:21 AM (4 years, 5 months ago) |
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Looks like a mosquito coil holder.....which would work too, great idea
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Re: Post Your New Tools Of The Trade. [Re: SunnyDayze]
#26362848 - 12/05/19 11:52 AM (4 years, 5 months ago) |
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I NEVER have dipped my scalpel in iso. Just clean it well before the session and flame when needed.
That soldering iron holder is a great idea but i just set mine on anything available to keep it off the floor.
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gizmo1



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verum subsequentis said: I NEVER have dipped my scalpel in iso. Just clean it well before the session and flame when needed.
That soldering iron holder is a great idea but i just set mine on anything available to keep it off the floor.
You use a flat scalpel handle or one of those exacto handles? I use the exacto and I've had it roll off a couple times while waiting for it to cool. That is some frustrating shit. I may have just talked myself into getting a real scalpel. Lol
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Crackatoa
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Re: Post Your New Tools Of The Trade. [Re: gizmo1]
#26362971 - 12/05/19 12:52 PM (4 years, 5 months ago) |
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In between I place mine on an iso soaked napkin till I torch it again. Torch, cool on agar, use, back on napkin, repeat. Plus it would another thing for my cat to play with in the middle of the night and I'll find it again, cause my lazy ass left shit out the night before.
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natedawgnow
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Re: Post Your New Tools Of The Trade. [Re: Crackatoa]
#26363087 - 12/05/19 02:08 PM (4 years, 5 months ago) |
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I do the same thing crack. Iso soaked paper towel between transfers
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Re: Post Your New Tools Of The Trade. [Re: cronicr] 1
#26363180 - 12/05/19 03:07 PM (4 years, 5 months ago) |
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My favorite strainer for quart jars....
Was in the apartment when I moved in
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AlwaysAtHeight
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Re: Post Your New Tools Of The Trade. [Re: YogiBear] 1
#26363892 - 12/05/19 08:59 PM (4 years, 5 months ago) |
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Treated myself to a dozen of the nice glass dishes. So much higher quality than those cheap Chinese ones. Also because the planet and everything.
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jbgtaa
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AlwaysAtHeight said: Also because the planet and everything.
Beautiful sentiment but stop using all plastics if that’s your goal. Don’t skimp out on proper materials because of “the planet” those things will crack in the PC eventually and there’s no feasible way to use them without throwing out tons of cultures...
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Re: Post Your New Tools Of The Trade. [Re: jbgtaa]
#26363962 - 12/05/19 09:51 PM (4 years, 5 months ago) |
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jbgtaa said:
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AlwaysAtHeight said: Also because the planet and everything.
Beautiful sentiment but stop using all plastics if that’s your goal. Don’t skimp out on proper materials because of “the planet” those things will crack in the PC eventually and there’s no feasible way to use them without throwing out tons of cultures...
I use very few single use plastics at all so I'm going to do what I can to limit in my cult as well. For sure it takes more work to bring my own containers to the store for my bulk groceries, but I don't see my convenience relevant in my part to promote a healthier planet. Of course they're not for everything, I wouldn't send a gourmet wedge in the mail in a glass dish. They sure are a hell of a lot nicer than the quarter-pint jars I've been using. I'm ok with their lifespan, glass breaks. At least the broken glass doesn't destroy the ecosystem like the 5 or 5000 plastic dishes it replaces. Anyway I'm new so educate me please. Why is there no feasible way to use them without throwing out tons of cultures?
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natedawgnow
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Cause you need to clean them out. 12 petris is enough to work with 1 culture up to 11 transfers before you have to clean out plates to keep transferring. If you wanna work with more than 1 variety you need like 50 plates
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Re: Post Your New Tools Of The Trade. [Re: natedawgnow] 1
#26363989 - 12/05/19 10:09 PM (4 years, 5 months ago) |
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Alright so I totally agree with your sentiment, but a realistic analysis of the environmental impact would also include things like the energy necessary to produce and regularly re-sterilize those, as well as the soap and water needed to wash them. And the energy needed to produce the soap and heat the water. I’ve read RR argue that glass dishes might actually be worse for the environment. I havent seen the EIR on polystrene petri dishes so I can’t say one way or the other but it definitely isn't always as cut and dry as plastic bad glass good. How often you accidentally break them could skew the data pretty drastically as well.
Another thing that makes plastics convoluted is that they are a bi product of fossil fuel extraction, so if you drive a vehicle or eat food from a farm that uses tractors and trucks its veggies out, can you really extricate yourself from the use of plastic?
And even another convoluted thought, are the consumers ever really at fault? We arent the ones profiting from the ecological devastation, we are as much victims as we are to blame. And If we choose to participate in a society with fossil fuels coursing through its veins does our opting out of single use plastics really mean much or is it just an egoic reaction to a much larger issue. By that I mean is it actually making a difference or are we Just doing it to make ourselves feel better and excuse ourselves from the rest of society like we are someone who is better or knows better.
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AlwaysAtHeight
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Re: Post Your New Tools Of The Trade. [Re: natedawgnow]
#26364005 - 12/05/19 10:25 PM (4 years, 5 months ago) |
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Ugh that's depressing. Thanks. I didn't realize how many I would need. I thought verum's sig was just an obsession or something. I mean I don't see myself needing all that many but 50 is not a huge number of glass dishes to have.
Aye, I don't want to never use plastics or fossil fuels. I def want my helmets and harnesses to be made out of plastics but I don't need to sip water from a straw like an infant with a bottle every time I sit down in a restaurant. I'm trying to get away from it, and there are enough pictures and videos of beaches in Malaysia or wherever we send our "recyclables" to to convince me to make a concerted effort.
Anyway everyone knows that mushrooms grown from glass dishes are happier.
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natedawgnow
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50 dishes is enough for 5 varieties with 9 transfers each so you better get you sterile tek up to par so that you know you have a clean culture ready for grain by 9 transfers. Then you save the last dish of each culture, and clean out the rest. Then either continue transferring after making more plates or slant those and move on to new cultures.
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AlwaysAtHeight said:
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jbgtaa said:
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AlwaysAtHeight said: Also because the planet and everything.
Beautiful sentiment but stop using all plastics if that’s your goal. Don’t skimp out on proper materials because of “the planet” those things will crack in the PC eventually and there’s no feasible way to use them without throwing out tons of cultures...
I use very few single use plastics at all so I'm going to do what I can to limit in my cult as well. For sure it takes more work to bring my own containers to the store for my bulk groceries, but I don't see my convenience relevant in my part to promote a healthier planet. Of course they're not for everything, I wouldn't send a gourmet wedge in the mail in a glass dish. They sure are a hell of a lot nicer than the quarter-pint jars I've been using. I'm ok with their lifespan, glass breaks. At least the broken glass doesn't destroy the ecosystem like the 5 or 5000 plastic dishes it replaces. Anyway I'm new so educate me please. Why is there no feasible way to use them without throwing out tons of cultures?
heard recently in Vancouver they are gonna ban single use plastics like that
https://vancouver.ca/green-vancouver/single-use-items.aspx
(British Columbia)
single-use plastic straws, cutlery, bags, food containers things like that.
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Re: Post Your New Tools Of The Trade. [Re: sh4d0ws]
#26364116 - 12/06/19 01:34 AM (4 years, 5 months ago) |
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OT but regarding plastic use and other stuff used in mycology. Why not just sort your stuff and dump it where it should be dumped and not put everything in your trashcan? Then you have at least done your part and the best you can do and contributed with better waste managment.
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Re: Post Your New Tools Of The Trade. [Re: Yamato]
#26364125 - 12/06/19 02:11 AM (4 years, 5 months ago) |
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Yamato said: OT but regarding plastic use and other stuff used in mycology. Why not just sort your stuff and dump it where it should be dumped and not put everything in your trashcan? Then you have at least done your part and the best you can do and contributed with better waste managment.
This is really what I was getting at. Recycle and let the govt agencies do what they say the do to keep plastic out of the ocean. PP5 (what industry standard petries are made of) is completely recyclable and will be turned into more Petri dishes if you put them in the recycling bin rather than trash. That’s what I do anyways.
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Re: Post Your New Tools Of The Trade. [Re: cronicr]
#26364378 - 12/06/19 06:45 AM (4 years, 5 months ago) |
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 Not a new tool by any means but fucking handy
re: scalpel holders, i like a magnet on the roof of the sab. if your scalpel handle is magnetic, it'll stick to the magnet and hang ever so dangerously in the air.
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jbgtaa said:
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Yamato said: OT but regarding plastic use and other stuff used in mycology. Why not just sort your stuff and dump it where it should be dumped and not put everything in your trashcan? Then you have at least done your part and the best you can do and contributed with better waste managment.
This is really what I was getting at. Recycle and let the govt agencies do what they say the do to keep plastic out of the ocean. PP5 (what industry standard petries are made of) is completely recyclable and will be turned into more Petri dishes if you put them in the recycling bin rather than trash. That’s what I do anyways.
sorry charlie, this isn't the case. typical petris are, let's say PS6. polystryrene, same stuff they made cd jewel cases out of. almost no place even pretends to recycle it.
i lost my inner struggle not to go with disposable petri dishes, but i still use my reusable ones. it's a fair compromise.
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Re: Post Your New Tools Of The Trade. [Re: J. Jack Flash]
#26364440 - 12/06/19 07:31 AM (4 years, 5 months ago) |
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Yeah, petri dishes definitely aren't made with PP5
I dunno tho, I'm starting to have that doomsday the worlds fucked anyways there's no turning back mentality. Whatever tiny shit we do is nothing compared to a single day of waste by even a medium sized corporation. And they have far more waste than just plastic.
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Re: Post Your New Tools Of The Trade. [Re: gizmo1]
#26364583 - 12/06/19 09:19 AM (4 years, 5 months ago) |
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gizmo1 said: I use the exacto and I've had it roll off a couple times while waiting for it to cool. That is some frustrating shit. I may have just talked myself into getting a real scalpel. Lol
That's funny. I have normal, flat scalpel handles but looking to get round ones. I find the standard handles hard to use and a bit short (since I'm trying to never hold fingers above the dish). The long, round ones with a slight angle seem best but are pricey.
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