Autoclave

Wholly goodness! That's awesome!

That's one helluva autoclave. You could sterilize just about anything in that sucker.

I love this shot, it looks like someone got undressed, pushed the door aside, and stepped in. Or is it just me?

That is a rather big autoclave, and very sinister looking..

As soon as I saw this pic, I thought back to the odd-ball cage-cumezekyamas we saw at Norwich State....
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We thought they were mattress sterilizers, well, these look like they could be just that! They have the right shape...and it looks like you can fit quite a few in there...

what is an autoclave..? lol

Lynne dear, please dont lie.........you helped me with my jacket 8-)

Jackie - An autoclave is a high-pressure steam box used to sterilize medical equipment.

Well ... that's the "Reader's Digest" version.

Who would have ever thought that an autoclave could be so elegantly designed? That thing is beautiful!

The little cage device on the floor (bottom left) may be the same type device we used to use to cap the water sprinklers for the sprinkled buildings on campus where I work. The old sprinkler systems had little metal blades with three or four teeth, and if there was a fire they spun around to shoot the water out. However, if you didn't put a little cage type device over them, people were always grabbing them and cutting themselves, so they designed that swell little cage so they protected the blades but allowed the water to come out if there was a fire. We have several dozen unused ones in one of the abandoned buildings on campus, and all the sprinklers in the 8 unused buildings on campus have these on each spout.

Lynne honey I will NEVER grow tired of thanking you for ejukatin' us!

Voila!

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That door is amazing.

Its a giant autoclave. They normally have a carriage/sliding element that can be drawn out of the apparatus. This particular one is so large because its laboratory -scale. In the old lab I worked in, there was one that was so large that you could easily put a SmartCar in it. It was massive.

Oh my GOD... so interesting and scary-looking!

Lynne and Kate, you guys are great!

(Hee hee, I rhymed!)

I've decided I can see a scary girl facing the left hand inside wall.... But then I do just spend far too much time looking for things that look like other things then read too much into them.

autoclave machines that we have at my work, are the size of a microwave, how technology has changed, maybe back in the day they though "bigger is better"???

Well, bigger is indeed better (or so I've been told by Lynne), but that's not why these are so big. The bigger the equipment to be sterilized, the bigger the machine to put it in. The autoclave I used (yes, I WAS actually in the medical field once) was slightly larger than a microwave, but we only needed it to clean speculums...

what type of large instruments would they put in something that big? at my clinic we auto clave small instruments ie:vasectomy packs, circ packs, specs, ect, so I am not used to seeing a autoclave that large, please educate me so I can look smart to my friends(he he) 8-)

Well, I have some equipment that big that needs to be sterilized after every use... but I doubt that it is the same type of stuff that they would have used here! I can't think of any single item that large, but maybe they had a lot of smaller items to do at once? They did have a lot of patients to handle...

well after you put it that way it does make sense, you owuld need a large machine to handle the load of all those pt's/residents, the machines size is just incredible.

the seal thing is insane

Don't think it's for sterilization folks.Although alot
of it is missing,it looks like a furnace for burning
med waste.Saw one just like it at Lawrence Memorial hospital.It's where the incinerated amputated limbs,tumors,and other med waste.
Just my 2 cents.

wow that door is just bizarre!

Great place to hide your stash.

in the hospital I worked in, we used to put equipment packs together with all the usual tools needed for one operation and sterilize whole trays of the packs at once. You would chemically soak all the steel tools first, then wrp them in green surgical cloth and label them with a special tape that changed colors when it had been put in the autoclave. That one used live steam to sterilize the packs.

on the base near where i live there is something that resembles this but it simulates jet flight but gosh darnit this is freaky

I got to explain what an autoclave was to a person today and it made me feel special. And I learned it all from opacity.

THAT'S my Jo! :-)

i'm definatly going in there!

the autoclave that ive seen was HUGE parts of the interstate was closed during trasport, maybe not the same autoclave,but an autoclave for a mining co.

that machine is an autoclave. it used steam from the boiler room to sterilize surgical equipment and glass. This one has the steam ports still visible and the drain port for the condensate water that collected in the bottom.

those things on the "door" look like swords on the first sight........ awesome!!!

Awesome autoclave. We have one here that we use for sterizing cages and racks for our vivarium. It's even bigger than this guy.

Can a autoclave be used as a steam room?

Sure, if warm temps are OK with you - 250F to 375F (121C to 190C). :-)

to house a cannible probably

i see it in my unversity

what this things that we can use them in autoclave?

that doors amazing!

The door made me scream a little inside. It looks veeerrryyyy scary.

That is the biggest autoclave I have seen in my entire life.

I also see a few disregarded soap dispensers on the floor.

;)

I am gonna have nightmares for months of evil autoclaves killing the person who has to go inside to clean them (especially since I'm on pain medication which makes me have horrible nightmares).

wow creepy just went there today and CREEPY!!!!!!!!! but awesome goin at night soon

ya really big autoclave do they put people in there

This image made me flinch when I saw it. I dont like it, not the image, the autoclave, I dont like it, the look, even though it is probably just as old as the building itself. It scares me. And Danny, that comment creeped me out lol. I hope that is not where they kept bodies. I would really not want to know if thats true. Haha.

definately for mattresses