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The Australian Customer’s V947 Autosampler Vial Order is Completed
The Australian Customer’s V947 Autosampler Vial Order is Completed
American Customer Ordered 100,000 Boxes of 9-425 2ml HPLC Vials
American Customer Ordered 100,000 Boxes of 9-425 2ml HPLC Vials
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Tier your methods before you tier your vials
Tier your methods before you tier your vials
April 5, 2018
Tier your methods before you tier your vials
A 9 mm screw thread on a 2 mL vial reaches its rated seal at 0.9 to 1.1 N·m of torque, and at 1.4 N·m the PTFE-faced silicone septum starts to extrude into the neck bore. I have watched a lab run at 1.5 N·m for six weeks on a cheap torque driver and lose an entire sequence of 96 injections to a single extruded septum that shed a sliver into the needle path at injection 61. The vials cost $0.11 each. The rerun, the standards, the instrument time, and the analyst’s afternoon cost $2,400...
Price per unit is a purchasing number, not a laboratory number
Price per unit is a purchasing number, not a laboratory number
April 5, 2018
Price per unit is a purchasing number, not a laboratory number
Last quarter a QC lab sent me a spreadsheet showing a 31% rerun rate on one HPLC method, and their first instinct was to blame the column. The column was fine. The vials were a 32 x 11.6 mm, 1.5 mL crimp format with a 9 mm natural rubber/PTFE septum that had been switched to a cheaper lot three months earlier. When I ran the hplc vial cost per test calculation properly, the vials were costing them roughly $4.10 per reported result, not the $0.19 their purchase order showed. That gap between...
Tooling ownership is the first fork in the road
Tooling ownership is the first fork in the road
April 5, 2018
Tooling ownership is the first fork in the road
In 2022 a mid-size contract lab sent me a lot of 2 mL clear glass vials that had passed incoming inspection on every dimensional print: 12.0 mm outer diameter, 32.0 mm height, 6.0 mm neck ID, 11 mm crimp finish. Within four injections on their autosampler, the run died with a “vial not found” error on position 34 of a 100-vial tray. The vials were dimensionally correct. They were also 0.4 mm taller at the shoulder than the previous lot, which is enough to change ho...