autoclaves!!!!!!

Re: autoclaves!!!!!!

chris beasley — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 13:04:22 GMT

Its startng on a small scale today. Low water light comes on briefly as door is closed!

The blue water lid used to come off ours when it was first fitted. Doesnt do it now.

Re: autoclaves!!!!!!

Fiona Leathers — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 11:52:40 GMT

I have noticed when there is a vaccuum failure the litle blue cap for the water is often lying off - I've started weighing that down to see if that's a readon why there's a failure!

Re: autoclaves!!!!!!

chris beasley — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:16:17 GMT

Woul you believe it - went into work today intending to itemise every little problem the autoclave had today, so I could phone burtons and moan.

BUT - not a thing. No faults all day. Must have known I was on the warpath and is behaving itself.

Re: autoclaves!!!!!!

chris beasley — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:34:29 GMT

Do you think if I copy these comments and sent them to burtons, they would be more willing to do some thing about these machines!

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Fiona Leathers — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 22:59:25 GMT

Our Burtons Instaclave does this all the time. One engineer we had out said that they weren't meant for places with dirt or hair in them(????) and they should be kept in a proper autoclave room.

When ours fails, we automatically change the seal now, we're probably doing this once a month and at £46 + VAT, its not cheap. I did have a pop at the Burtons folk at BSAVA and they've said they'll come up & look cos it shouldn't be doing this.

Chap that runs the Vetcel company thinks thats they're a waste of space & told up when we bought it that we would have no end of trouble. Ours is only 18 months old as well.

Re: autoclaves!!!!!!

chris beasley — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 20:27:02 GMT

Thanks for all your posts.

I will be ringing them on Tues morning to complain rather than putting up with all the problems we have been having!

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NIckie — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 18:16:02 GMT

oh my god! this is exactly what is happening with our machine and the burtons guy keeps fobbing us off with 'you must be overusing it/overfilling it/ sterilising kits in their trays!!' thankfully we have a little sister to use in the mean time but i swear if i see naother vaccum failure light i will scream. and dont get me started on the racket, our machine is sotred in the room near the cattery and im sure the cats have a heart attack every time it cycles! it has done this since it was bought brand new yet the maintenance guy refuses to believe the problem is with the machine.

Re: autoclaves!!!!!!

Nick Shackleton — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:25:09 GMT

WE have one of those and I personally think it's the biggest pile of S**t!!! We are constantly having them out to look at it for one reason ro another, I think it was made on a friday afternoon. WE are writing a letter of complaint to the manager. I would not reccommend this autoclave to anyone

Re: autoclaves!!!!!!

Kirstie Sherman — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:17:30 GMT

I agree with the rubber seal tip, any problems we have had with ours has been seal related.....I always keep a good few spares just in case!

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Jacqueline Gallacher — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:11:59 GMT

I have a burtons vaccum autoclave and have never had a problem, phone the maintenance guy for some tips, try cleaning round the rubber seal before every cycle with a scourer pad, or even change the rubber seal on the door.

Re: autoclaves!!!!!!

chris beasley — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:06:36 GMT

Im sort of glad we are not the only ones with the problem- when i phone them im told ive put too much in or its too cold. Recently it will not switch to sterilizing without vacume!

Are all this type of autoclaves so noisy?

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S-J — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 22:01:02 GMT

i know exactly wot you mean. we had the little sister but have the burtons one now, it failed so much in the first few weeks with vacuume probs that we got it swopped, seems to be working ok but still need it checking every few weeks