But if you purchase a fairly standard holdall bag, just high enough to hold your favourite styrofoam container, it will be longer, maybe a bit wider too, than the styrofoam thing. The holdall can contain extra insulation if you need,or other stuff for your trip, and doesn't fall over so easily in the X-ray machine. Also doesn't look as if you are carrying a lab-type styrofoam box, and provides a nice strap or handles for carrying. HTH J ------------------- Judith Murray-Rust Structural Biology Lab Cancer Research UK
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Andreas Forster Sent: Wed 06-Dec-06 8:44 PM To: CCP4BB Subject: Re: [ccp4bb]: carriers for crystallization plates *** For details on how to be removed from this list visit the *** *** CCP4 home page http://www.ccp4.ac.uk *** I second Bernhard's suggestions. Find a Styrofoam container that's just big enough for your plates. Pad the gaps left by the short sides of the trays with paper towels, add tools, wands, tubes with cryo protectant, cover slips etc, and you're ready to walk over to your local synchrotron. Andreas Bernhard Rupp wrote: > *** For details on how to be removed from this list visit the *** > *** CCP4 home page http://www.ccp4.ac.uk *** > > > > I use with great success the thick-walled, dense > Styrofoam shipping containers in which the cooled stuff > from Qiagen, Biorad etc comes (your biology > department will have many of those). > > A few cold packs of proper incubation temperature > added, they lasted for 5-6 hr car/air trips easily. > > Warning on airport issue: The leaded plastic curtain > hanging down in front of the X-ray machine turns the > boxes over when they are put into trays on the belt..... > > BR > -- >>> Andreas Förster <<< 8 rue Doudart de Lagrée, F-38000 Grenoble +33.438.866201 docandreas.blogspot.com https://wasatch.biochem.utah.edu/~andreas
