Why not draw out a pasteur pipette using a bunsen burner to the desired thinness? You’ll end up with something rather like an old-fashioned glass capillary.
Adrian On 7 Jul 2014, at 17:52, Matthew Franklin <mfrank...@nysbc.org> wrote: > Hi Frank - > > How about a gel loading pipet tip as a substitute for the quartz capillary? > Suck the crystal into it, then try to get it to stick to the wall. Flame > seal the tip end, and use a glob of vacuum grease for the other end (or cut > off the skinny part with your crystal using a razor blade). > > That semi-transparent plastic FPLC tubing (Tefzel?) might work as a > substitute for the Mitegen capillary sleeve. > > Your Xray absorption and background scattering will be really high from all > this plastic, but any port in a storm. > > - Matt > > > On 7/7/14 12:32 PM, Frank von Delft wrote: >> Hi all >> >> Pretend you were stuck having to do RT data collection but without access to >> either Mitegen MicroRT Capillaries or the more old-fashioned quartz >> capillaries, to pop over the loop. >> >> Anybody have suggestions of alternative ways of doing this? I do want to >> use loops (I never learnt how to suck up crystals in capillaries). >> >> I have access to a passably stocked biochemistry teaching lab, and could at >> a pinch go rifle some more advanced research labs. (No, I'm not at home ;) >> >> Thanks! >> phx >> >> > > > -- > Matthew Franklin, Ph. D. > Senior Scientist > New York Structural Biology Center > 89 Convent Avenue, New York, NY 10027 > (212) 939-0660 ext. 9374
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