Does anyone have a file for the 1.9mL tri-coded cryotubes for RACKS specifically? There’s some sort of shortage leading to 3+ month lead times which is insane.
My lab has almost exhausted our reserve and still no timetable from the manufacturer.
Does anyone have a file for the 1.9mL tri-coded cryotubes for RACKS specifically? There’s some sort of shortage leading to 3+ month lead times which is insane.
My lab has almost exhausted our reserve and still no timetable from the manufacturer.
@evwolfson I don’t, but out of curiosity what brand is this for?
FluidX/Azenta. We’ve been trying to order since late April
It looks like one can draw the geometry of a single tube quite easily from the manufacturers part website (or at least something very close to it):
But would you really 3D-print the tube and the cap?
Spending this much money on a tube I’d assume you have some important cells to store.
How would you sterilise a 3D-printed tube (I have only found one FDM 3D-printable material, after 8 years of occasional searching, that can be autoclaved; do you know of an SLA-printable material that can be autoclaved)?
I have not used the Azenta tri-coded tubes, though I really like the tri-coded part, but can you intermittently use Thermo Fisher Scientific’s alternative Matrix tubes until Azenta gets their production in order?
I think he is only asking for the Racks.
OnTopic: Due to the long delivery times Azenta takes we switched to LVL entirely. The newly designed tubes are really good and price is only about half of Azentas’.
Yes it’s the rack that’s currently an issue for us. Funny enough is we don’t even really need the ~Azenta~ rack as we’re not currently using it functionally for LIMS or keeping tubes stationary - we literally just need someplace to store the tubes upright and the tubes have weird dimensions and footprint.
I’ll check out LVL - seems like a great alternative and the racks/tubes are waaaay more reasonable priced.
Have you checked if its available from other 3rd party companies like Thomas Scientific or VWR?
It looks like the rack itself will be in stock on August 17th at Thomas Scientific. No idea if this is a crazy markup compared to what you pay now to be fair.
Ohhh, you just want a rack for the tubes
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Here, I have designed and manufactured this rack a little while ago:
For a z-layer height of 0.24mm (it doesn’t have to be pretty):
Approximate print cost using PLA = $4.2
Approximate printing time = 6 h
Shared drive link to the STL file (you might be asked to request access, please let me know whether it gives any troubles)
I designed it for Matrix tubes but the dimensions of your tube look similar, and it would be fun to see whether my design can be transferred to other tube manufacturers.
The bottom is slanted for barcode scanning. It is not perfect but plate barcode scanners can identify most tubes, though the edge tubes might not always be recognised.
A little warning though: this specific version is designed for tube storage and easy, manual cherry picking of tubes.
For that reason I increased the tube-spacing to 10.2mm (as opposed to ANSI/SLAS 4-2004’s 9mm).
Taking a tube from the center is therefore much easier but you cannot use standard multi-channels now for decapping/aspiration/dispensation actions.
This looks fantastic!
A fun project might be to create a Solidworks/Onshape macro that takes the diameter of the the tubes to be used along with some other important dimensions and automagically generates a standard SBS plate sized holder.
Wish there were more than 24 hours in a day sometimes…
Hi mate,
I’m sorry to hear you are having trouble getting these tubes.
I assume these are the standard 65-7643?
Are you still having trouble getting stock?
I hate to step on any toes but I am pretty sure there is now stock available and I am happy to reach out to your sales rep to make sure this gets expediated.