If you will use the ultracentrifugation, I think centrifuge tubes have been offered along with the mechine.

Hi,

I have a Multifuge X3 FR with the same rotor. I already used the rotor with 50 ml and 15 ml tubes up to 20,000g. These tubes are cheap tubes bought from Roth in Germany. None of them ever cracked. I already asked Thermo fisher if there are prefered mark of tubes for the rotor, they told me not. The only problem that I had using the 15 ml tubes and the adaptors is that there are two types of adaptor. With the type that I had at the beginning the 15 ml tubes were stuck in the adaptor. Impossible to remove them. Since then Thermo send me the new adaptor type but I still did not test them.

Hop it helps!

Have a nice day,

Gérard

Hi Nikhil, Didi and Gerard

Many thanks for your answers. Gerard, I finally made contact with a specialist at Thermofisher this morning who confirmed that regular high quality falcon tubes should be fine as long as they are fairly full at high speeds. I am about to test this but from your experience it sounds as if this should be fine. I hope the adaptors don't stick!.

Best wishes

Andrew

Gut to hear that.

If you wish I can provide you the reference numbers of the adaptors...

Cheers

Gérard