The Ghetto Lab Centrifuge
24 October 2012 by Viktor Poór, posted in Uncategorized
One day I've got fed up with the fact, that I could no spin down PCR strips and plates, so I built my own. I've seen a similar design at a conference, but I upgraded it. All you need is a salad centrifuge, two PCR plates and a couple of zip-ties:
Cool! We used to have a commercial one for strips in the lab, but not for plates. Plates you just had to tap on the table in a certain way and hope the bubbles disappeared...
There exists a salad centrifuge?! For what? To precipitate all the green goodness?
We use one at home all the time to remove the water after washing lettuce leaves. Who wants watery salad?
But I'm glad our lab bought a real, electric, plate spinner. It makes life much simpler and probably more reproducible.
Eva: the table tapping method works usually for 95 wells in a plate.