Used and refurbished incubator shakers available from American Instrument Exchange. Click HERE for more details.
Given our extensive history of buy and selling used and refurbished lab equipment, we have seen our share of incubator shakers and the evolution of different styles. These units are basically a combination of other machines: a shaker placed inside an incubator. While there may be some labs that still prefer the old-school approach of placing a shaker into an incubator, for most people the convenience of a single machine with shaking and temperature controls integrated into the same control panel is preferable.
Incubator shakers incorporate oxygen and evenly distribute nutrients throughout the culture media and are used for cell culturing, cell aeration, and solubility studies. In addition to offering stable temperature conditions, shaking incubators use an orbital agitation at variable speeds to affect the growth of cell cultures.
Tabletop incubators generally offer the smallest incubation chamber and platform spaces. These units are designed to sit on a lab bench and agitate small sample loads. The are convenient and often cost-effective options for labs with relatively little space and without high-throughput volume needs. Most of these units are designed with a clamshell style lifting lid that opens sort of like a car’s hood. Often these lids don’t create a seal that’s quite tight enough to effectively isolate the chamber from ambient conditions, so the downside to this design is that the temperature uniformity in the chamber tends not to be as consistent as with other models. One of our current favorite incubator shakers is the Thermo Barnstead MaxQ 4450.
Undercounter incubator shakers are larger than benchtop models and are about the size of an undercounter refrigerator or freezer. (Some manufacturers refer to these as “floor model incubator shakers.”) In addition to have one orbital shaking platform of about 20” x 20” many of these units can also be equipped with a fixed shelf of the same size. The New Brunswick Innova 4230 is a good example of an undercounter incubator shaker.
Stackable incubator shakers are the latest and greatest design. (Although before these came along there were the chest-freezer style models as well as the New Brunswick Innova 4900.) These units remind us of pizza ovens, with doors that glide up to open and down to close. Many also feature slide out platforms for easy loading. Infors and Kuhner both make popular models. Our favorites though are the New Brunswick Innova 4400 series and the New Brunswick Innova 44 series. The New Brunswick units are great because of their modularity: you can purchase one unit to start, and then as your needs expand purchase a second unit to stack on top of the first, using OEM hardware.
We stock all these different style of incubator shakers, used and refurbished, from a variety of different manufacturers. If you have any questions about which style is right for your lab, or would like information on pricing and availability, please give us a call or email today. You can also browse our website to see specifications of different models. Thanks!
American Instrument Exchange has been a reliable source for used laboratory and scientific equipment for over 50 years, buying and selling equipment since 1969. Our surplus lab equipment is reconditioned for many types of laboratories, including biotech, biomedical, medical research, chemical, pharmaceutical, and university and hospital research laboratories. All lab equipment listed on our website is in stock and ships from our 30,000 square foot warehouse in Massachusetts. Our facilities include a fully equipped shop with highly trained technicians who thoroughly test each instrument before it reaches your laboratory. Please visit our website at https://www.americaninstrument.com/.