BeadBeater

Disrupter with better than 95 percent efficiency

The BeadBeater comes complete with a 350 ml polycarbonate chamber, rotor assembly, motor base, ice-water cooling jacket (not shown) and one pound of glass beads of your choice. For additional accessories please contact our sales department. Indicate your glass bead choice by adding -101, -105 or -110 (0.1, 0.5, or 1.0 mm) to the end of the catalog number (example: 1107900-105). Bead compositions other than glass should be order separately. The BeadBeater disrupts microorganisms, single-cell preparations and pulverized plant and animal tissue with better than 95 percent efficiency. Up to 80 grams (wet weight) of cells can be processed in a typical three minute run. Relying on a unique crushing or cracking action rather than high shear forces found with a French Press or sonicator, a Teflon impeller rotating at high speed forces thousands of minute glass beads to violently collide in a special clover-leaf shaped vessel. Cells are disrupted quickly, efficiently and safely in the sealed system. The apparatus is easy to clean, has a small footprint, requires no auxiliary supplies or equipment and is essentially maintenance free. Beads settle out in seconds and are reusable. The apparatus is easy to clean, has a small footprint, requires no auxiliary supplies or equipment and is essentially maintenance free. Beads settle out in seconds and are reusable.

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CONTROLING SAMPLE WARMING. Like many mechanical cell disruption techniques, the Beadbeating process generates heat. In general for every minute of beadbeating there is a 10 deg rise in sample temperature. Should that be a problem, the ice-water jacket included with the BeadBeater helps keep this temperature increase under control. Superior control is achieved using an accessary stainless steel or aluminum sample chamber. *Rick Hansen at Solid Tech Animal Health recently suggested another way to keep the sample chamber cold: “We affix small freezer pack gels with a rubber band around the s. s. chamber just before firing up the Beadbeater.”