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What to do with old and empty columns?

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Does anyone know of anywhere that accepts old and empty stainless steel columns for recycling? I am happy to mail them, it just seems a waste of raw materials to just trash them.

i use my old and dead columns to stake seedlings of tomatoes, beans and peas in the home garden.....

fair dinkum!

:D

i use my old and dead columns to stake seedlings of tomatoes, beans and peas in the home garden.....
hmm... such a nice idea. I will follow your idea for my carnivorous plants.

Tubular bells? Wind chimes?

Rod

I am glad to see there are still chromatographers with a sense of humor. I will look for some creative ways to use my old columns around the house/garden.

I hurl used and old columns at chemists that get out of line at the laboratory. I kid!

Usually, we just throw them away, but are there options out there for recycling?

You can send your old columns to SepServ in Berlin for refilling. (http://www.sepserv.de/erefill.htm).

I once bent one into a semi circle and asked a newbie to fit it into a gc.
GCguy
Please send them to me. I will pay for shipping.
Thank you.
Please send them to me. I will pay for shipping.
Thank you.
I would need your shipping information. Also, just out of curiousity on my end, what do you plan to do with them?

Best way to send it back to small companies, they refill it and sell someone :) We are give discount then refill your column 8)
My email address is fapalida@scripps.edu. Thank you.
when you send us our old columns you get 25€ discount if you order a new Altmann Analytik column. Have a look
http://www.analytics-shop.com/gb/chromatography.html

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i use my old and dead columns to stake seedlings of tomatoes, beans and peas in the home garden.....

fair dinkum!

:D
:D :D :D Good idea.

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Best way to send it back to small companies, they refill it and sell someone :) We are give discount then refill your column 8)
Привет , Иван. Приятная встреча 8)
Hello, respected Ivan.Nice catch
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Good quality reful column by elsico full confirm.

* Ivan is son of theEugene L. Styskin, author of the legendary Russian handbook "Practical Liquid Chromatography, 1986 ", with Eugene L. I was familiar with 1997, with Ivan probably already ten years
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