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Shortix Capillary Column Cutters
Gas chromatographic and column techniques, like On-Column injection, Quick-Fit column connections or any other critical gas chromatographic analysis, make it a necessity to cut a column extremely straight without cracked column walls or column blockage because of fused-silica particles. The Shortix Capillary Column Cutter is especially designed to allow everybody, independent from skill and experience level, to make the perfect cut. This is important because these errors, caused by non perfect column cuts, will result in poor chromatography, spikes in the chromatogram, leaking Quick-Fit connections, bad chromatographic reproducibility of retention times and peak broadening.

Laboratory Smart Tools
The Fix It ® swiss army knife pocket knife for the laboratory features 15 handy tools: GC injectionport liner remover, special cassette with 3 tools : (round file – ferrule remover – septum remover), magnifying glass (20 x), bottle opener, can opener, wrench,Philips universal screw driver, pliers, knife blade, pair of scissors,corkscrew,tweezers and a tooth pick

Why our Laboratory Tool are 'Simply the best'?
When traditional column cutters, like a diamond pen or a sapphire, are used, only a fraction of the column wall is scratched. The column is then broken off resulting in a partly cracked, thus damaged, column wall. The SGT Shortix Capillary Column Cutter rotates a diamond cutter around the whole column wall making a scratch all the way around the wall. The column is then broken off resulting in a perfectly straight column cut.

Laboratory Tools Product Range

Shortix™ GC
In Gas chromatography, the Glass Quick-Fit connection is often used. (e.g. for Retention Gaps, Guard Columns) This connection will only be leak-tight when the column is cut extremely straight and without any damage to the fused-silica column wall.

Shortix™ CE/CEC
For CE/CEC analyses a clean and straight cut of the capillary column is needed to assure symetrical Field-Strength over the inlet of the column. When there is no symetrical Field-Strength, the analytical results will be non-reproducable.

Shortix Plus™
Shortix Plus™ offers the mostly used lab tools, like the Shortix™ Diamond Column Cutter, a septum hook, an universal wrench, a ferrule remover and a round file. Shortix Plus™ also contains a variety of regularly used standard knife items like a can opener, blade, scissors, tweezers, toothpick etc. Extended toolkit featuring ferrule reemers, burner tip cleaner, liner remover etc.

Fix-It Labatory Knife
The Fix It ® swiss army knife pocket knife for the laboratory features 15 handy tools: GC injectionport liner remover, special cassette with 3 tools : (round file – ferrule remover – septum remover), magnifying glass (20 x), bottle opener, can opener, wrench,Philips universal screw driver, pliers, knife blade, pair of scissors,corkscrew,tweezers and a tooth pick

Maintenance Kit for Shortix GC
Includes a replacement diamond cutting wheel for Standard -Black Fused Silica Capillary Column Cutter for Capillary GC Columns, together with O-rings, and a tool to open the column cutter.

Maintenance Kit for Shortix CE/CEC
Includes a replacement diamond cutting wheel for Standard -Blue Fused Silica Capillary Column Cutter for Capillary CE/CEC Columns, together with O-rings, and a tool to open the column cutter.

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