Fisherbrand Cell Scraper 39 cm Handle Case of 100 Scrapers

Fisherbrand 08100242 Pivoting Cell Scraper – 39 cm Handle, 3.0 cm Large Blade, Sterile

The Fisherbrand 08100242 (also cataloged as 08-100-242) is a large-format, premium cell culture scraper engineered for harvesting intact cell monolayers, lysates, and primary cell lines from large-volume culture vessels. Molded under sterile cleanroom protocols, this device features an extended 39 cm (15-inch) ribbed polystyrene handle for maximum reach and manual control. The handle is coupled via a flexible joint to a 3.0 cm (1.18-inch) pivoting blade fabricated from a highly pliable polyethylene copolymer. This pivoting mechanism allows the blade to freely rotate and adjust its angle dynamically, maintaining absolute, flat mechanical contact with the treatment surface. This ensures clean liquid or cell recovery from difficult corners and curved walls while drastically minimizing structural cell shearing and membrane lysis.

Technical Performance and Design

• Pivoting Blade Mechanics: The engineered swivel joint permits the blade to self-adjust its orientation over curved or multi-angled culture interfaces. This eliminates the uneven contact patches common with fixed-blade scrapers, protecting cell viability during high-yield collection passes.

• Extended 39 cm Handle Reach: Designed explicitly with a long, reinforced 39 cm handle, making it the ideal standard for accessing large-scale tissue culture vessels, roller bottles, and deep-deck T-225 or T-175 flasks without risking glove-to-vessel brim contamination.

• Ultra-Soft Polyethylene Copolymer: The specialized scraper blade is molded from a low-durometer, smooth polymer that glides effortlessly across treated polystyrene surfaces, harvesting tightly adherent cells without scratching structural deck coatings.

• Ergonomic Ribbed Handle Profile: The rigid polystyrene handle features a series of pronounced molded ridges along the grip section, giving technicians high tactile feedback and slip-free control when operating inside deep biological safety hoods while wearing damp nitrile gloves.

Product Specifications

• Catalog Number / MPN: 08100242 (08-100-242)

• Manufacturer / Line: Fisher Scientific / Fisherbrand™

• Handle Length: 39 cm (approx. 15 inches)

• Blade Width / Size: 3.0 cm (1.18 inches) / Large Profile

• Blade Material: Polyethylene Copolymer

• Handle Material: Ribbed Clear Polystyrene (PS)

• Sterility Status: Gamma Irradiated Sterile (SAL 10⁻⁶), Individually Wrapped

• Purity Metrics: Non-Pyrogenic, Certified DNase/RNase-free and Cytotoxic-Safe

Key Benefits & Applications

• Large Flask & Roller Bottle Harvesting: The baseline industry selection for peeling cell sheets from T-75, T-150, and T-225 flasks or high-density rolling culture bottles with a clean, sweeping mechanical action.

• High Viability Stem Cell Recovery: Optimized to mechanically detach delicate stem cell matrices, primary tissue samples, and macro-macrophage lines where chemical trypsinization could alter surface markers or downregulate receptor profiles.

• Lysate Collection for Western Blotting: Ensures uniform, edge-to-edge clearing of sticky cell lysates directly into lysis buffers, maximizing protein recovery metrics for downstream Western blots or mass spectrometry runs.

• Contamination-Free Peel Packaging: Distributed in medical-grade paper/plastic individual peel-pouches, ensuring easy aseptic transfer inside sterile laminar flow hoods without bringing in particulate shipping dust.

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