Laboratory Cleaning Supplies

Cleaner microscopes always produce better results!

SPI Supplies offers a full range of laboratory cleaning supplies of the highest quality. These are all "famous names" and in their respective classes, money can not purchase finer quality. We are often times asked to make a "recommendation" for a particular product in a particular situation. Generally speaking, the selection of the specific cleaning product that is best for your application will involve "trade offs".

For example, what if one is looking the right product to clean a printer head. One does need something that is soft enough not to cause damage but stiff enough to budge and dislodge a persistent piece of paper from a space where it does not belong. We would suggest that it is impossible to find a product that will satisfy exactly both almost mutually contradictory requirements. The SPI cotton-tipped applicators are clearly going to be better for dislodging stuck things like pieces of paper, but they have the considerable downside of leaving cotton fibers in places where they don't help. A knife blade is, of course, excellent for getting a piece of paper out of a tight space, but at the risk of damage to the edges of that space.

So like other things in life, the selection of the right cleaning agent involves trade-offs. Select your cleaning products carefully. This is why we offer such a wide selection of different products and brands.

Keep It Clean...The SPI Way!!!

SPI Supplies has everything you need to keep your laboratory clean - SPI Clean!!!

	SPI Dusters: "All GREEN". Featuring "all green" US EPA-approved "HFC" tetrafluoroethane, CAS registry No. 811-97-2. Ultra clean product designed specifically for EM lab use. Or try the SPI Rubber Bulb Dust Blower. Or vacuum it up with a Mini-Vac™.
	SPI Lint-Free Cloths. We have a wipe to suit any clean-up need you have! Choose from wipes that are anti-static, lint-free, totally non-abrasive, super tough, gentle enough to use on delicate electron optics...whatever you need! Be sure to consider our own SPI Lens Tissue for your critical needs for lens cleaning or just protecting valuable samples for their day under the microscope!


	SPI Swabs: Like our cloths,we have a wide swab selection to serve your every need! See Big Mitts, SPI-Swipes, and Cotton tipped applicator sticks.

	SPI Cleaning Time Savers. Try SPI Bell Bright and SPI Metal Bright, unique spray products specially formulated for use in the EM laboratory. Simply spray these water soluble coatings on metal (Metal Bright) or glass (Bell Bright) surfaces and form a protective barrier between sensitive equipment and both unwanted dust and other deposits. When ready to clean the surface, wipe everything away with water alone and a lint free cotton or polyester wiper!
	SPI Cleaning Agents. Wenol™ and POL™, are not only the world's two most famous metal polishes, but the only polishes guaranteed to keep column parts clean and free of contamination.
	Pikal^® Paste and Polish We recommend Pikal Paste for use on all metal surfaces being exposed to high vacuum or UHV environments. Developed in Japan, nothing comes finer for use on vacuum exposed surfaces than Pikal paste.
	Alconox^® Powder Detergent. Double-duty lab detergent for manual cleaning and ultrasonic washing. High sequestering powder prevents redeposit of suspended dirt, grease. Rinses off with water. Biodegradable, mild, odorless, anionic. Moisture-proof wax carton.
	Liqui-Nox^® Liquid Detergent for critical applications around all laboratory settings.
	Luminox^® Low-Foaming Neutral Cleaner for use in mechanical and spray washers.
	SPI Parafilm M ^® Self-sealing semi-transparent thermoplastic film for molding around the top of lab containers.
	SPI-Guard Gloves It's safety first with lab gloves form SPI. Cotton, featuring special temperature-resistant cryo gloves and a selection of neoprene gloves. Makes up the SPI glove collection.
	Ultrasonic Cleaners Top quality; three convenient sizes to choose from, all with a 2-1/2 year part-and-labor warranty. An absolute "must" for any "working" SEM or TEM lab, used for cleaning Wehnelt assembly, to other parts that "see" vacuum in the microscope. Some TEM connoisseurs even ultrasonically shake and clean their TEM grids before picking up sections!
	Optical Cleaning Solution This find high purity product has been formulated for the thorough cleaning of delicate lenses and optical instrumentation.
	SPI Mini-Vac™ combination vacuum and air blowing system, use for either blowing away or vacuuming up bothersome dust and other particulates.
	X-O^® Odor Neutralizer Try the X-O Odor Neutralizer to "cover up" unpleasant laboratory odors and make for a more pleasant work environment.
	Castrol^® Fluoroclean X-100 Castrol Fluoroclean HE, and PERFLUOROSOLV^® PFS-2 Perfluorinated Cleaning Solvents are outstanding cleaning agents for the removal of unwanted PFPE (e.g. Castrol Braycote or Fomblin) high vacuum greases. They also are used widely as high performance degreasers and are known for "no leaving a residue".
	Asahiklin^® AK-225 Light Duty Degreaser is another degreaser, widely used as a final cleaning step for metal surfaces that will be in contract with high vacuum or UHV. Used in conjunction with another one of our cleaning products, Pikal paste, it becomes the worlds best approach to the cleaning of metal surfaces to be exposed to high vacuum.
	SPI-Fibe™ Microfiber Cleaning Cloth Our own specially engineered wiper for critical cleaning applications. For cleanroom use, consider using our SPI-Fibe™ Ultra Microfiber Wipers.

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