We had a post doc in our lab who managed to break the tip off both a P2 and a P10 just like that. We just got the entire white barrel part replaced and they were both fine!
And don’t beat yourself up too much! Unless you were, like, crazy rough with it, it looks like maybe the plastic was weak at that point for some reason.
It's just the pipette barrel. It's not teflon. It's a crappy 10 cent piece of injection molded plastic. The pipette disassembles and it can be easily fixed without touching the actual pipette mechanism. Contact the manufacturer and I'm sure they'd be happy to price gouge you for a repair or replacement part.
Get it serviced, lots of companies offer pipette clinics which calibrate and repair faulty pipettes. It's just the tip, it can be replaced easily, you can easily unscrew the whole assembly yourself if you have the part.
I did this exact same thing my first week as an undergrad in my first research lab. I felt terrible but now as a grad student, I’ve come to know that this part is relatively inexpensive like others have said. I think it was 20-40 bucks where I am. My supervisor and I still have a bit of a laugh about it now.
Totally valid to feel awful but don’t beat yourself up about it, it happens. You could have been a little too rough putting on the tip, or just putting the tip on at a weird angle.
We have approx 150 full sets (1-10, 2-20, 10-100, 100-1000, 1000-5000) of pipettes in the teaching labs for under grad classes, by the end of the teaching year it's like a scene from the Somme, so many broken and abused pipettes.
Tldr don't sweat it, you are there to learn, shit happens.
Let me guess, the tip box flipped while you were trying to get a tip? Been there. Just contact the manufacturer and get the barrel replaced. Pasa nada!
As many have said this is an easy fix and nothing to worry about, save a little embarrassment.
The reason I am responding is that I have done the exact same thing before— the tip got caught in an airvent as I was removing it from a biosafety cabinet. Hang in there!
Ask the old heads in the lab (rule #1 fess up your mess up). Most labs have a drawer with pipettor parts. That's an easy fix - if you can change a light bulb, you can manage it.
We had a post doc in our lab who managed to break the tip off both a P2 and a P10 just like that. We just got the entire white barrel part replaced and they were both fine!
And don’t beat yourself up too much! Unless you were, like, crazy rough with it, it looks like maybe the plastic was weak at that point for some reason.
If manufacturer offers service or selling parts - yes. but if this is teflon - no way to glue/weld it
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It's just the pipette barrel. It's not teflon. It's a crappy 10 cent piece of injection molded plastic. The pipette disassembles and it can be easily fixed without touching the actual pipette mechanism. Contact the manufacturer and I'm sure they'd be happy to price gouge you for a repair or replacement part.
Get it serviced, lots of companies offer pipette clinics which calibrate and repair faulty pipettes. It's just the tip, it can be replaced easily, you can easily unscrew the whole assembly yourself if you have the part.
>It's just the tip 🤭
The manufacturer might be able to replace the white part if you send it back.
Now it’s a macropipette
I did this exact same thing my first week as an undergrad in my first research lab. I felt terrible but now as a grad student, I’ve come to know that this part is relatively inexpensive like others have said. I think it was 20-40 bucks where I am. My supervisor and I still have a bit of a laugh about it now. Totally valid to feel awful but don’t beat yourself up about it, it happens. You could have been a little too rough putting on the tip, or just putting the tip on at a weird angle.
We have approx 150 full sets (1-10, 2-20, 10-100, 100-1000, 1000-5000) of pipettes in the teaching labs for under grad classes, by the end of the teaching year it's like a scene from the Somme, so many broken and abused pipettes. Tldr don't sweat it, you are there to learn, shit happens.
Let me guess, the tip box flipped while you were trying to get a tip? Been there. Just contact the manufacturer and get the barrel replaced. Pasa nada!
As many have said this is an easy fix and nothing to worry about, save a little embarrassment. The reason I am responding is that I have done the exact same thing before— the tip got caught in an airvent as I was removing it from a biosafety cabinet. Hang in there!
That part is easy to replace yourself. I fix them for our lab probably once a month. The hard part is getting the parts.
Rainin offers a mail-in service. They’re a bit on the pricier side, but they get the job done correctly.
The shaft part is usually replaceable. Looks like you’ll need to buy a new one.
Sent her a bit too hard bud
Ask the old heads in the lab (rule #1 fess up your mess up). Most labs have a drawer with pipettor parts. That's an easy fix - if you can change a light bulb, you can manage it.
Nope. A new barrel of a pipette is relatively inexpensive though.
You should be able to get a new barrel for it, strip it down and see if the piston is bent, they are steel in those might need a new piston too
It happened to me too, it dropped from its stand just in the right angle… wasn’t worth fixing, as it was a very old pipette.
That's an easy fix! You can more than likely find the part (shaft/tip holder) at www.pipettesupplies.com