From: John Philo <jphilo@mailway.com>
  To  : Olwyn Byron <o.byron@bio.gla.ac.uk>
  Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 07:26:50 -0700

RE: affordable sapphire windows

I have no experience with your Chinese source, but I and many others
buy our centrifuge windows (sapphire and quartz) direct from Meller
Optics, who supplies them to Beckman.

Their address is:

Meller Optics
P.O. Box 6001
120 Corliss St.
Providence, RI 02904
1-800-821-0180 (presumably only from the U.S.); 1-401-331-3717; fax
1-401-331-0519

Their part number for quartz windows is SCD0267 - 03C, description
"crystal quartz; disc, pl/pl 0.7492" dia. x 0.1969" thick, 507-301730
Rev. H". They were $265 each for quantity 6 in Feb. '99.

Their part number for sapphire windows is SCD0267 - 01C. They were
$325 each in Feb. '99.

Meller also accepts credit card sales.

John Philo

-----Original Message-----
From: Olwyn Byron [o.byron@bio.gla.ac.uk]">mailto:o.byron@bio.gla.ac.uk]
Sent: Monday, June 21, 1999 6:56 AM
To: rasmb@alpha.bbri.org
Subject: affordable sapphire windows


Dear RASMBers

Back in January last year RASMB was contacted by He Yu of the Silian
Technical Import and Export Corporation, P. R. China with descriptions
and
prices of sapphire windows. I'd like to ask: has anyone made use of
this
supply route and if so, how successful has it been? Additionally, does
anyone order sapphire windows from elsewhere (other than Beckman)? If
so,
please could they share details of this with us.

Many thanks and all the best,

Olwyn Byron.


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Division of Infection and Immunity
Institute of Biomedical and Life Sciences
Joseph Black Building, University of Glasgow
Glasgow, G12 8QQ, Scotland.

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