Thanks sloppy J I use an hp inkjet office pro 9010 model to be exact. With 8160 Avery labels which are 2 5/8 x 1 in. mailing labels. Then I go to Avery labels website download there 8160 Avery label template and you can just go to town from there and basically customize anything you want. I print them at 1200 dpi. Highest resolution the printer can achieve and wallah. Some fresh looking labels ready to go. Beats buying some
junky ones from somebody and paying shipping. I make a lot of custom labels for some of my fellow brewer buddy’s.
thanks for the feedback guys I’m really happy with how everything turned out after contemplating Researching and thinking how and what I wanted to do.
Enigma to answer your question I don’t have a pic of my lab and that isn’t my lab that’s just my labeling station the old kitchen table lol. But I can give you some insight on my setup and things I do.
I actually use a grow tent for my lab that I have with an exhaust fan that pull suction out of the tent and made a hood, and used furnace filter that pulls suction to the bottom of the tent so I don’t have debris like dust and such floating in my air and the on the intake side of the tent where I pull fresh air in I have an In line ducting filter so the air coming into the room stay clean. I clean the room before I step into in and run the fan for like 5 min to pull any debri that could possibly be in there to the furnace filter hood. have a lab jacket a where a fresh face mask everytime I walk in and something to cover my head for air and such. Lots of gloves obviously.
I use a magnetic stirrer hot plate. Auto clave all my glass. And run 500 ml zap caps with a brake blender vacuum pump. Then I carefully poor my filter gear into a pour tubes to dispense to vials. After vials and stoppers are auto claves and moisture is removed I put the stoppers on top of everyvial while they sit on my lab bench. To keep any possibility of anything contaminating then while I’m pouring. So I pour each vial one at a time out of my pour tube. Removing the stopper and immiadiatly putting it back on to plug the opening so the gear is only exposed to air for maybe 4-5 second per vial max. I set them all aside as I do them and then crimp them all at the end since the stopper is already sealing the vial. After I crimp them I inspect every bottle to triple check for no contaminants or floaters. I have never had a single floater or piece of dust ever in any of my vials and beleive me I probably over Thurally Inspect them cause I wouldn’t want to risk anything cause I’m using this gear. I’ve been running my gear for awhile and have never felt even the slightest insecure about my process. Everything I’ve pinned has been smooth as can be. I run cotton seed oil. And I’m really enjoying the process.
Then it seems you take more steps than the average. But if you had a laminar flow bench, the tent would just be a bonus but unnecessary. Good for you for trying to keep things clean.
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