weeksie98
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Hotplates - Bite the bullet and go Chinese?
While searching for a decent heat source to replace my kitchen hot plate, I have been scouring eBay. The only decent looking hot plate stirrer on eBay
is the IKA RCT, and even that has a circular, metallic and quite small stage as opposed to a Corning. The irritating thing is, however, that in order
to get a Corning I would have to get one from the US and buy a transformer. That is out of the question. So should I bite the bullet and get one of
the Chinese ones listed on eBay? It must be able to heat to 350-400 Celsius and have a stirrer and decent stage size, preferably ceramic.
Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.
'If organic chemistry were easy, it would be known as "biology".'
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thesmug
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I thought Corning hot plates had a little thing to switch between US and EU mains (like on computer PSUs). If not, I don't see an issue with that
Chinese hot plate.
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murgs
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Listed on ebay is a couple of bright orange mag/stirrers made in england and they heat up to 500c,I think they are from Maple scientific.They are
expensive compared to chinese but good warranty and looks and sounds like a good unit.
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adamsium
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My thoughts on the cheap Chinese hotplates:
https://www.sciencemadness.org/whisper/viewthread.php?tid=24...
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