Ten place and twenty-eight place vacuum-assisted workstations are available to accommodate a wide range of work loads. Each workstation accepts Biochemical Diagnostics' extraction columns. An adaptor enables the use of any column or syringe barrel fitted with a standard tapered male luer fitting. Work stations may be used individually for low volume users such as stat tox labs or in series for higher volume users such as methadone maintenance programs where thousands of samples may be processed daily. Both workstation models are designed to minimize cross contamination and sample mixup and are resistant to most of the commonly used laboratory reagents and solvents.

Each workstation consists of the following: 1. A vacuum box. 2. A column mounting plate, designed to enable eluates to drip directly into the vacuum box for disposal, or into tubes for collection without making contact with sources of contamination such as the plate or tubing. 3. A vacuum control manifold which includes a vacuum adjustment valve, gauge, and hose nipple. The 28 place workstation hose nipple requires a 3/8" i.d. vacuum tube. The ten place workstation hose nipple requires a 1/4" i.d. vacuum tube. 4. Optional elution racks, manufactured in ten place and twenty-eight place sizes, are available in configurations to hold small disposable glass tubes or 50 mL plastic tubes. Specific features include: 1. The elution racks accomodate a variety of tube sizes. The column mounting plate has four stainless steel posts which locate on the elution rack. The standard posts provide proper height clearance for 75 mm tubes. A set of four adaptor pins which fit over the stainless steel posts provide an adjustable height clearance for 85-100 mm length tubes. The adaptor pins are slipped over the stainless steel posts on the column mounting plate and locked into place with the allen set screw at the proper height for the tubes being used. 2. The twenty-eight place and ten place racks are designed for gravity elution outside of the vacuum box. 3. To help prevent sample mixup all racks are "keyed" to fit their respective column mounting plates in only one direction.

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