Isolation Work Stations

High-Performance Laboratory Tables

   The 63-500 Series High-Performance Lab Tables provide an excellent vibration-free working surface for loads up to 350 lb [160 kg].  Siskiyou has teamed up with isolation table industry leader TMC to offer these products that match with our platforms, support rods and other hardware.  Now with modular construction, these tables are recommended for use in such diverse applications as electrophysiology, cell injection, ultramicrotomy, photomicroscopy, scanning tunnel microscopy, and confocal laser scanning microscopy.  TMC’s Patented Gimbal Piston™ Isolator has been proven by independent tests to consistently outperform the competition.  It achieves both horizontal and vertical isolation down to very low input levels.  An integral part of the Gimbal Piston, the thin-wall, Dacron®-reinforced, rolling diaphragm air seals are only 0.020 in. [0.5 mm] thick and extremely flexible.  They do not stiffen the spring as thicker rubber diaphragms do.  All systems are equipped with rugged all-aluminum height control valves.  Virtually unbreakable, they are finger adjustable with no need for tools.  The standard model maintains height to ±0.050 in. [±1 mm]; the precision model, to ±0.005 in. [±0.1 mm].  Unique in the industry, TMC provides husky, tamperproof, built-in piston travel restraints.  The restraints are completely independent of the table valves and have been ram-tested at forces above those produced by the pistons operating at full pressure.  They cannot be decoupled accidentally and do not interfere with setting up and using the table, but simply protect against over travel without the use of external bars that create hazardous pinch points.  Heavy loads, including the top plate, can be safely removed from a table in full operation.  Exclusive TMC tie bar gussets increase table frame rigidity. They compensate for the elimination of the front tie bar in order to provide knee well space.  Table legs include built-in fine-thread 3 in. [75 mm] diameter screw jack levelers with 1/2 in. [13 mm] travel, provision for external adjustment and a handy adjustment wrench.  The adjustable feet have a solid, slightly domed shape to assure solid, wobble free contact with sloping or irregular floors.  All table tops come with standard 1⁄4-20 x 1.0 tapped hole array.