Is anyone else having trouble getting plastic dispo control drop pipettes. Both sizes of pipettes from Immucor are on backorder until the end of November. A substitute we just ordered a couple of weeks ago from Fisherbrand is now on backorder. What gives? Are there any other acceptable subs.

which country are you based in?

Are these really controlled drop size pipets . . . made of plastic? Gamma (Immucor) used to sell blood bank pipets . . . they were not controlled drop size but had a long end piece to facilitate entry into a segment - hence, they were blood bank pipets.

Oh for the good old days of glass Pasteur Pipettes. I never did like the plastic ones for blood banking. Are the glass pipettes even still available.

Oh for the good old days of glass Pasteur Pipettes. I never did like the plastic ones for blood banking. Are the glass pipettes even still available.

I could not agree more (although we used to pull our own in the early days).

We have not been having any trouble getting the plastic "blood bank" transfer pipets. Yes, John, the glass ones are still available (we use them for some applications), but it is getting hard to find decent bulbs to use with them! I am glad we don't have to pull them!

It was quite fun; a bit like (very) amateur glass blowing (but with some very frightening shapes being made)!

I could not agree more (although we used to pull our own in the early days).

Surely you gest!

But I do remeber that in my early days in the lab, we sharpened needles, washed the tubes we used for blood banking, made our own saline (it took two of us to shake the huge bottle), and used glass bottles to collect blood. And we used the mercury from the van slyke CO2 machine to shine our coins!

Belva

No, we really did.

It was when I was working for Carolyn Giles at the BGRL, when it was in London in the early 1970's.

Now that shows my age!

:ohmygod:

unfortunately the health and safety police have banned the use of glass pipettes in Irish Blood Transfusion Labs, though it is not unknown for one to appear periodically- again the bulbs are a bit flaky!!!

Malcome, surely everyone knows you are a man of experience!! When working 4 BGRL surely you were only an embryo!

If only, if only!