CySAB XL
£50.00
Our XL (130 litre) SAB provides plenty of movement space for your Mycology tasks.
Working with agar, inoculating spawn… whatever you’re up to, you’ll find it super easy to work within this Still-Air Box.
We have cut the arm holes (the annoying part of making your own SAB at home!) and will provide some sandpaper if you want to perfect how smooth they are.
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Why should I use a SAB?
When undertaking the tasks involved in mushroom cultivation, you have to always imagine that contamination is raining down every second. Literally. How we always describe it to customers to help them visualise what we mean is picture your home on a bright, sunny day and all of those little specs of dust you see floating around the room in the sunlight.. Now, within those specs of dust are nasty contaminant mould spores, like the dreaded trichoderma – it’s totally normal, no matter how clean you keep your home.
So, if you complete a crucial task like inoculating a grow kit out in the open – even if you and your workspace are super clean and you take care to wipe your injection ports, it just takes a second for even one of these nasty spores to land on top of your inoculation point before you pierce your needle through and voila – the contamination is introduced directly into your substrate and your project is ruined.
Working within a SAB prevents any unwanted spores being able to fall onto your work from above.
Carefully positioned armholes suit working standing up or sitting down
Notice that we simply flipped the SAB around and removed the lid on the picture above to use the perfectly flat table surface.
Tips on use
Thoroughly clean the SAB within its working position before each session.
If you use an alcohol solution, be careful to give it time for the vapours to disappear before doing any flame sterilising.. you don’t want to ignite!
Personally, we always just use anti-bac wipes on a SAB, making sure to give it a very careful clean.
Keep air currents at an absolute minimum, ie. draught-free room and slower arm movements within the SAB.
Keep a roll of aluminium foil inside the SAB – the high temperature annealing processes it goes through during production means it’s completely sterile between the foil – a brilliant working surface which you don’t need to wipe clean!
Specifications
- Dimensions: 78x56x43cm
- Volume: 130L
- Material: Polypropylene (PP5)
What’s not included
- Foil or anything within the SAB
All of our pre-modified SABs are sourced in-person so we can ensure no damage prior to our modication work and dispatch.
But because this product has a risk of cracking during transit (although very uncommon) – we offer no guarantee on it. What we will do is pack it as best as we can with plenty of padding and use ‘Fragile’ tape and stickers – we take a lot of care to avoid breakages in all of our packaging of orders.
If you are unlucky enough to experience cracking, use glue or duct tape and view the SAB as having some extra character – it will still work just fine.
