5 cheep freezers in houston area

[texasliam]

check out this on line hospital auction.
http://www.slapsale.com/item_desc.aspx?itemid=1221
Most of this type of item is usually in working order. You can go look at it if you want by calling utmb's surplus warhouse, and take your extention cord

Liam

[HarkJohnny]

"slightly used to keep disected body parts fresh"

j/k :D

[texasliam]

I wouldn't worry about that too much. Utmb is a huge research facility, but 99% is animal, bacteria, and virus research. And that's exactly what's in my home freezer right now. Or it was untill I converted to a beer cooler. I would hesitate to buy one of there fancy lab freezers though, like this one
http://www.slapsale.com/item_desc.aspx?itemid=1268
a minus 80 deg freezer.

or this one
http://www.slapsale.com/item_desc.aspx?itemid=1273

fancy expensive lab freezers for fancy lab experiments, I don't think so...and they are single units meaning they might be broken anyways. But when they sell a whole bunch of somthing at once, like 5 regular chest freezers, that means some department bought a whole bunch of new ones, and chances are good that they all work, or they would have showen up as single units earlyer. That purchasing/turnover stratagy is how big inefficiant governemtal bodies do buiness. I love my job, and all the stuff I buy in their auctions. You should see my shop. Now if I could only find the NASA surplus auction...


Liam

[Chubber]

Originally posted by texasliam
Now if I could only find the NASA surplus auction...
Liam

It is over here at Cape Canaveral. And it is a treat to just wander around in. Buildings full of strange machinery and spare parts. A guy nearby has a sounding rocket booster motor in his front yard as a planter! It's the place to go when you want a bunch of vintage '80s computer equipment.

[xtalman]

Originally posted by texasliam
I would hesitate to buy one of there fancy lab freezers though, like this one
http://www.slapsale.com/item_desc.aspx?itemid=1268
a minus 80 deg freezer.

or this one
http://www.slapsale.com/item_desc.aspx?itemid=1273

fancy expensive lab freezers for fancy lab experiments, I don't think so...and they are single units meaning they might be broken anyways.



Those freezers go for about $12-15K new. Unfortunately they do brake down quite easily if not handeled correctly and a new compressor, if you can get one is also quite costly.

works in a buliding with quite a few of those babies, also very noisy as they get older.