Tony Withers: Lab: Supplies

Where to buy lab supplies

Links to commercial sites do not imply endorsement of the vendors' products or services*.

 

Piston Cylinder Parts
Multi-anvil Parts
Hardware & Electronics
General Lab Supplies

 

Piston Cylinder Parts

 

Furnaces, pistons, pressure vessel and stack hardware

Rockland Research
(Peter McNutt)
6 Tompkins Ave./West Nyack NY 10994
845-353-4686
Fax: 845-358-9119

 


Steel/pyrex base plugs

Depths of the Earth
6314 E. Morning Vista Lane
Cave Creek, AZ 85331
phone: (480) 513-9921
Fax: (480) 513-9925

Email Tracy at DepthsoftheEarth.com
See their web site for current prices, catalog #s, etc.

 


Thermocouple insulators

Vesuvius McDanel
510 Ninth Ave.
Beaver Falls, PA 15010-4700
412-843-8300
412-843-5644 (Fax)

Order 12" 4 bore 99.9% Al2O3 tubes - 0.162" OD Part #AXF-1159

 


MgO insulators

Ozark Technical Ceramics, Inc.
402 Ware St. Webb City
MO 64870-2789
Tel. (417) 673-2463 /
FAX (417) 673-2464

See in particular: http://www.ozarktech.com/PDF/tech_exotic.pdf

 


BaCO3

Amrex Chemical Co Inc.
391 Exchange St
Buffalo, NY 14204-2023
Tel: (716) 852-7245.

Buy ONLY “calcined free-flowing BaCO3.” (Minimum purchase is 50 pounds).

 


MoS2

TS Moly Lubricants, Inc.
P.O. Box 230225
Houston, TX 77223-0225
Tel: (800) 508-5545.

Specify superfine/technical fine (4 micron), former Belray part # 14550.

 


Plastics

Polymershapes or McMasterCarr.

For insulators, order 10 mil (0.01") Polyester (PET) film (Mylar™).

 

   

 

Multi-anvil Parts

 

Castable ceramic: Ceramacast 584OS

Aremco Products, Inc.
P.O. Box 517,
707-B Executive Blvd.,
Valley Cottage, NY 10989
Phone: (845) 268-003
Fax: (845) 268-0041
E-mail: aremco@aremco.com

* specify OS: old style! *

 


Dental drills (diamond and carbide points)

Brasseler USA
One Brasseler Boulevard
Savannah, Georgia 31419
Phone: 1-800-841-4522
info@brasselerusa.com

 


MgO Pieces

Ozark Technical Ceramics, Inc.
402 Ware St. Webb City
MO 64870-2789
Tel. (417) 673-2463 /
Fax (417) 673-2464

See in particular: http://www.ozarktech.com/PDF/tech_exotic.pdf

 


Molybdenum

ESPI
1050 Benson Way
Ashland, OR 97520
tel 800.638.2581
fax 800.488.0060
sales@espimetals.com

Rhenium Alloys, Inc
P.O. Box 245
1329 Taylor Street
Elyria, OH 44036-0245
Phone: (440)365-7388
Fax (888)366-9830



Cell Assemblies: Injection Moulded Octahedra, Pyrophyllite, Zirconia...

Kurt Leinenweber/COMPRES/ASU

 


Thermocouple insulators

McDanel Advanced Ceramic Technologies LLC
510 Ninth Ave.
Beaver Falls, PA 15010
phone: 724-843-8300
fax: 724-843-5644
email: sales@mcdanelceramics.com

 


Tungsten carbide

Toshiba Tungaloy America, Inc
1226A Michael Drive
Wood Dale
IL 60191
Tel 630-224-3700
Fax 630-227-0690

 


Truncation grinding

Minnesota Grinding, Inc
5400 Douglas Dr.N.
Crystal, MN
55429-3106
Phone: 763-535-4445
Fax: 763-535-4578

 


PTFE dry lubricant

Miller-Stephenson
6348 Oakton St.
Morton Grove, IL 60053
847.966.2022
Fax 847.966.8468
il.sales@miller-stephenson.com

We use PTFE lubricant MS-122RB.

 


Plastics

Polymershapes or McMasterCarr.

Liner for hatbox: 3.5 mil (0.0035") Polyester (PET) film (Mylar™).

Wedge insulation: 2 mil (0.002") Polyester film.

Anvil insulators: Phenolic G-10 FR-4 15 mil (0.015"). * specify Norplex as the manufacturer *

 

   

 

Hardware & Electronics


Solid pressure media apparatus

Rockland Research
(Peter McNutt)
6 Tompkins Ave./West Nyack NY 10994
845-353-4686
Fax: 845-358-9119

 


Controllers, SCRs etc

Eurotherm

 

   

 

General Lab Supplies


Dry graphite

NAPA auto parts

 


Polishing materials

Allied

Buehler

 


Chemicals

Alfa Aesar

Sigma Aldrich

Goodfellow

 


Wire saw supplies

Princeton Scientific

We use 50 micron wire and 1000 mesh boron carbide abrasive.

tel.: +1 609 924-3011
fax: +1 609 924-3018

 


Box Furnace Elements

Barnstead International

Furnace model F47915 (47900) requires 2 heating elements, part number: EL479X1A
Thermocouple part number: TC357X1A

Model FB1415M uses t/c TC746X1a, heating element EL48X1

 


Other lab supplies

Daigger

 

 

If it's not on this list, it probably comes from the Chemistry Stockroom or McMasterCarr. Or AxMan.

* With the exception of Ax-Man.

MMH/ACW 2006

 

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