Hi Dianfan - I bought the VWR 2-door chromatography refrigerator (catalog #82009-782) for this purpose and I've been very happy with it. It's currently listed at about 7200 US dollars on VWR's website - much cheaper than 9000 euros, unless the VAT is really that high! If you buy a food grade fridge, you'll get the cooling, but you'll lose important accessories like a floor drain, a hole in the side for computer cables to pass in and out, and a pole in the middle to attach your columns to. One of my colleagues did this, and had to have our facilities department make the modifications later.
You can squeeze an entire Akta with fraction collector into a single-door refrigerator (e.g. VWR #55702-520), which is only 4500 USD, but you won't have any space for buffer bottles, fraction racks, spare columns, and the other clutter that usually accumulates around an FPLC. This may not be a bad thing! - Matt -- Matthew Franklin , Ph.D. Senior Scientist, ImClone Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of Eli Lilly & Company 180 Varick Street, 6th floor New York, NY 10014 phone:(917)606-4116 fax:(212)645-2054 From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:ccp...@jiscmail.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dianfan.Li Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 5:38 PM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: [ccp4bb] Cold Cabinet Vs Fridge, FPLC Dear all, Sorry for the non-crystallographic question - I am planing to buy two cold cabinets for the AKTA FPLC/Explorer. They appear to be expensive ( € 9,000 including VAT). Does anybody have experiences using cheaper alternative like food grade fridge to accomodate those machines? If so could I get the vendor information? Thanks in advance, Dianfan ______________________ Dr. Dianfan Li Membrane Structural and Functional Biology Group University of Limerick Limerick, Ireland </HTML ________________________________ Confidentiality Note: This e-mail, and any attachment to it, contains privileged and confidential information intended only for the use of the individual(s) or entity named on the e-mail. If the reader of this e-mail is not the intended recipient, or the employee or agent responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that reading it is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately return it to the sender and delete it from your system. Thank you.
