Re: Clean machines

David L. Haviland, Ph.D. (dhavilan@imm2.imm.uth.tmc.edu)
Tue, 18 Feb 1997 09:03:18 -0600

At 09:30 2/17/97 GMT, Peter J Openshaw [Medicine] wrote:
>
>I have been told that denture cleansing tablets are the answer to the
>ultimate clog/dirty cell. I have not tried them, but can imagine that
>companies have spent millions on making the perfect combination to clean
>false teeth. Has anyone tried?

Peter:

Interesting! I'm curious though, how was its use suggested? Drop the flow
cell in a beaker with a tablet ala dentures, or disolve the tablet and run
it through the whole system like a sample?

With an old Epics V, I just popped off the cell and dropped it into a
beaker of 1%SDS in one of those water bath sonicators. For the Elite, I
could not do this as I'd destroy the reflective surface, so I just ran the
SDS solution through it.

David