[Unless otherwise stated all electrical equipment should be suitable for operation on 220–240 V 50 Hz single phase or 380–440 V 50 Hz three phase. Names and addresses of potential suppliers are provided in APPENDIX L.]
Aquaculture
Algal culture vessels (5–20 l)
Aquarium air stones, small
Aquarium gang valves (suitable for 8–12 mm diam tubing)
Aquarium pumped filtration units
Biorings, for biological filters
Ceramic æration diffusers
Flourescent lights, 40 W Growlite
Fluorescent lights, 40 W north light
Glass aquaria with silicon joints (50–200 l)
GRP rounded square tanks, 2,000 l
GRP translucent cylindro-conical tanks, 100 l
GRP translucent cylindro-conical tanks, 200 l
GRP translucent cylindro-conical tanks, 500 l
GRP translucent cylindro-conical tanks, 1,000 l
High density polyethylene circular tanks, 100 l
High density polyethylene circular tanks, 200 l
High density polyethylene rectangular tanks, 100 l
Polycarbonate circular tanks, 20 l
Polycarbonate circular tanks, 50 l
Boats and Engines
GRP dinghies, 3–4 m LOA
GRP boat, 5 m LOA
GRP boat, Boston Whaler type, 8 m LOA
Outboard engines, 5 hp
Outboard engines, 25 hp
Outboard engines, 50 hp
Calculators and Computers
Colour chart plotter, complete with pens
Computers, IBM AT compatible
Daisy wheel printer, with sheet feeder
Daisy wheels, full set
Disk drive cleaning kits
Dot matrix printer, with sprocket drive
Floppy disk storage boxes
Floppy disks
Parallel interface cables
Programmable calculators (preferably RPN)
Serial interface cables
Uninterruptible power supplies
Consumables
Cotton wool, absorbent
Cotton wool, non-absorbent
Disposable gloves
Disposable syringe needles
Disposable syringes
Filter papers, various sizes and grades
Glass wool
Laboratory wipes
Plastic Petri dishes
Polyethylene wool
Waterproof notebooks
Weighing boats
Containers
Dessicator cabinet, acrylic
Dewar vacuum flasks (1–5 l)
Dry ice storage cabinet
Galvanised bins with lids (10–100 l)
Ice storage containers, polystyrene
Ice trays
Polyethylene bags, various sizes
Polyethylene bags, self-sealing, various sizes
Polyethylene sheet, various grades
Soil sample tins
Furniture and Fittings
Air conditioning units*
Balance tables, vibration-free
Chairs
Desks
Display boards
Display cabinets, for use in corridors etc
Fume hood, general purpose
Fume hood, perchloric acid
Laboratory benches
Laboratory cupboards
Notice boards
Stools
Storage Shelving
Tables
* Unnecessary if central air conditioning is provided throughout.
Generators
Auto-start standby generators, diesel*
Diesel fuel tank*
Portable generators, petrol 5kVA
Glassware and Porcelain
Adjustable dispensers (5–20 ml)
Automatic pipettes (1–10 ml)
Beakers (25–1,000 ml)
Boiling tubes (100 mm)
Büchner flasks (250–1,000 ml)
Burettes, glass stopcock (25–100 ml)
Burettes, PTFE stopcock (25–50 ml)
Canada balsam bottles
Capillary tubes
Centrifuge tubes, various sizes
Conical funnels, ribbed (100 mm diam)
Conical funnels, plain (75–150 mm diam)
Crucibles, porcelain with lids (30–60 ml)
Crystallising basins (100–2,000 ml)
Dropping bottles (30–120 ml)
Ehrlenmeyer flasks (100–1,000 ml)
Graduated cylinders (100–1,000 ml)
Graduated pipettes (5–50 ml)
Micropipettes (5–200 μl)
Mortars and pestles, glass (50–200 ml)
Mortars and pestles, porcelain (50–2,000 ml)
Petri dishes (100 mm diam)
Reagent bottles, brown glass, glass stopper (100–500 ml)
Reagent bottles, brown glass, polypropylene stopper (100–500 ml)
Reagent bottles, clear glass, glass stopper (100–1,000 ml)
Reagent bottles, clear glass, polypropylene stopper (100–1,000 ml)
Separating funnels (100–250 ml)
Specimen bottles, extra wide neck (50–2,000 ml)
Specimen vials, snap-on caps (5–50 ml)
Test tubes (75–100 mm)
Volumetric flasks, polypropylene stoppers (25–1,000 ml)
Volumetric pipettes (1–50 ml)
Watch glasses (50–110 mm diam)
Weighing bottles (30×60 mm)
Histology
Diamond scribes
Embedding trays
Microscope slide forceps, spatulate ends
Microtome knife sharpening machine
Paraffin wax dispenser
Rotary microtome
Section floating-out bath
Slide cabinets
Slide dispensers
Slide drier plates
Staining blocks, with covers
Staining trays with handles
Staining troughs
Instruments and Tools
Dissecting kits
Laboratory tools kit
Swann-Morton scalpel blades (shapes 10–27)
Swann-Morton scalpel handles (3, 4, 5)
Measurement
Amino acid analyser
Analytical balances, 250 g capacity
Andreasan pipettes etc, for particle size analysis
Ballistic bomb calorimeter
COD digestion block
Colony counter
Colorimeters, test kits
Conductivity meters, portable
Counterbalance scale, 50 kg×10 g capacity
Dissolved oxygen meters, laboratory
Dissolved oxygen meters, portable
Extension spring balances, 10 kg
Fibre analysis extractor
Gas chromatograph
Illuminance (lux) meters
Interval timers
Kjeldal digestion distillation assembly
Melting point block apparatus
Nephelometer
pH meters, laboratory
pH meters, portable
Plankton counting gauges
Port-o-Gram balances, 10 kg capacity
Portable current meter
Portable water level recorder
Redox meter
Refractometers, salinity
Relative density hydrometers
Salinometers, laboratory
Secchi disks
Sedimentation cones, soil
Sedimentation tester for coagulants
Sieve shaker
Sliding mass balances, 1–5 kg capacity
Soil sample splitter
Soil testing kits
Spectrophotometer, general purpose
Standard sieves, for particle size analysis, full set
Surveyor's level
Surveyor's staff
Tape measure, fibreglass (50 m)
Temperature meters, portable
Thermometer readers, with focussing eyepiece
Thermometers, high temperature (0 to 550 °C)
Thermometers, low temperature (-120 to 30 °C)
Thermometers, low temperature (-40 to 40 °C)
Thermometers, mercury (-20 to 60 °C)
Thermometers, mercury (0 to 40 °C)
Thermometers, mercury (40 to 70 °C)
Thermometers, mercury (50 to 110 °C)
Thin layer chromatographic equipment
Top loading balances, 5 kg capacity
Meteorology
Barograph
Maximum/minimum thermometers
Recording raingauge
Stevenson screen
Wet bulb thermometers
Wind speed and direction indicator
Microscopy
Calibration slide for eyepiece graticules
Camera attachment (35 mm) for dissecting microscope with exposure meter
Camera attachment (35 mm) for research microscope with exposure meter
Cover glasses, various sizes and thicknesses
England finder graticules
Eyepiece graticules
Haemocytometers
Hand lenses, x 10
Helber bacteria counting chambers
Microscope slides, pre-cleaned with ground edges
Microscopes, stereoscopic, low power dissection*
Microscopes, binocular, high power research*
Scale magnifiers
Sedgwick rafter counting cells
Slide labels
* Complete with all eyepieces, objectives, stages, lighting systems,
accessories, etc.
Miscellaneous
Aluminium trays
Anti-bumping granules
Asbestos gloves
Beaker clamps
Biological hazard warning tape
Boss heads, multi-purpose
Bottle trays, for hazardous liquids
Bunsen burners
Burette clamps
Cork borer sharpeners
Cork borers with cutters, bench type
Dissecting trays
Emergency wash-down showers
Enamelled trays
Eye-wash bottles
Face shields
Fire blankets
Fire extinguishers
First aid cabinets
Furnace tongs
Gas cylinders, carbon dioxide
Gas cylinders, oxygen
Gauzes, for Bunsen burners
Glassware washers
Handcarts
Instrument trays
Laboratory coats
Laboratory jacks
Pipette cleaners
Polyethylene/PVC bag sealers, electric
Process time switches
Retort rings
Retort stands
Rubber bungs (5-30 mm diam)
Rubber gloves
Safety pipette filler bulbs
Scoops
Shovels
Silica trays, for muffle furnaces
Smoke detectors
Spatulas
Sterile warning tape
Tally counters
Test tube stands
Test tube tongs
Tripods
Trolleys
Ultra-violet goggles
Wheelbarrows
Offices and Library
Binding machine
Bookshelves
Calculators
Cataloguing cabinets
Chairs
Colour television (26 in)
Desks
Display shelves
Dymo labellers
Electronic typewriters
Facsimile machine, when dedicated line becomes available
Filing cabinets
Guillotine
Library shelving
Notice boards
Overhead projector
Photocopying machines
Stationery cupboards
Telephone exchange, when telephone lines become available
Video camera, VHS format
Video cassette recorder, VHS format
waste paper bins
Photography
Delevoping trays
Enlarger
Extension tubes, for 35 mm format camera
Film cassette loaders
Film processing and washing tanks
Filters, various
Forceps
Macro zoom lens, 70–210 mm, for 35 mm format camera
Ring flash and power pack, for 35 mm format camera
Safety lights
Slide magazines
Slide projection screen, retractable
Slide projector, auto-focus
SLR camera body, 35 mm format
Standard lens, 50 mm, for 35 mm format camera
Wide-angle lens, 28-40 mm, for 35 mm format camera
Plastic Ware
Aspirator bottles (20-60 l)
Bio-medical polystyrene jars, tapered sides
Conical funnels, external ribs (40-200 mm diam)
Graduate cylinders (25-2,000 ml)
Stopcocks
Wash bottles
Processing
Centrifuge, general purpose, with accessories
Centrifuge, high speed research, with accessories
Dough mixer, 20 l bowl with dough arm, flat beater and loops
Extruder, with 2, 3, 4, 6 mm steel dies, 200 kg h-1
Fermentor system:
High viscosity stirrer
Meat grinder, 2-3 hp with 2, 4, 6 mm steel plate dies
Orbital shaker in cabinet
Ribbon mixer, 100 kg flour capacity with heating elements
Silverson heavy duty emulsifier
Steam generator, 10 kg h-1, 2 hp
Vortex mixers
Pumps
Aquarium pumps, 12 V DC
Aquarium air pumps, oil-free, double piston
Axial saline water pumps, 35-40 KW diesel
Circulating pumps, 50 l min-1, 6 m head
Circulating pumps, 100 l min-1, 6 m head
Circulating pumps, 200 l min-1, 6 m head
Field saline water pumps, 2.4 KW
Hatchery supply pumps, 0.75 KW
Portable transfer pumps, 6-10 m3 h-1, 100-150 W petrol
Portable transfer pumps, 20-50 m3 h-1, 1-2 KW petrol
Roots blowers, 140 m3 h-1 at 2 m head
Tubewell pumps, 1.7-2.0 KW
Vacuum pumps, two stage, 3.6 m3 h-1 displacement
Sampling
Beam trawl nets
Beam trawl, 1 m
Bongo nets
Cast nets
Fyke nets
Plankton net jars
Plankton net rings
Postlarvae collecting nets
Push nets
Seine nets
Soil augers (core sampler)
Trammel nets
Water sample bottles
Zooplankton nets
Temperature Control
Autoclave baskets, wire
Autoclaves
Drying cabinets
Freezers (-20 °C)
Heating mantles
Hot Plates
Ice making machine, 100 kg d-1
Incubators
Low temperature freezer (-90 °C)
Magnetic stirrers/hotplates
Muffle furnace
Refrigerators (0 to 10 °C)
Sterilisation baskets, for test tubes, Petri dishes etc
Sterilising ovens
Water baths, thermostatic
Tubing and Fittings
Flow indicators (5-15 mm diam tubing)
Hoffman clips (15-40 mm diam tubing)
Non-return valves (5-15 mm diam tubing)
Polyethylene tubing (5-25 mm ID)
Polyethylene tubing, reinforced wall (5-25 mm ID)
Pressure regulators, air and oxygen
Pressure regulators, carbon dioxide
PVC tubing (5-12 mm ID)
Rubber tubing, heavy wall (5-12 mm ID)
Rubber tubing, standard wall (3-25 mm ID)
Silicon rubber tubing (3-12 mm ID)
Tubing clips, polypropylene (10 mm diam tubing)
Tubing connectors, straight single size (2-25 mm diam)
Tubing connectors, straight step up/down (2-25 mm diam)
Tubing connectors, T-shaped (5-15 mm diam)
Tubing connectors, Y-shaped (5-15 mm diam)
Vacuum tubing (5-15 mm diam)
Vehicles
Bicycles
Boat trailers, three sizes
Cars
Flat-bed trailer
Jeeps, four wheel drive
Minibuses
Pickups, four wheel drive
Tractor, on tracks, with front shovel and backhoe
Tractor, on rubber tyres, small with feed blower
Water Treatment
In-line cartridge filters
Millipore filters and cartridges
Ozone water sterilisers, 100 l min-1
Swimming pool sand filters with backwash facility
UV water sterilisers, concentric, 100 l min-1
Water deionisers
Water stills
