--- title: Sieve Shakers - Sieve Testing - Sieve Analysis description: Quiet sieve shakers that match results from the Rotap from CSC Scientific. The ideal way to have trouble free sieve annalysis in a quiet enviornment. --- [![CSC Scientific Company, Inc.](https://www.cscscientific.com/hs-fs/file-1239671252-jpg/images/csc-logo-1.jpg "CSC Scientific Company, Inc.")](https://www.cscscientific.com/?hsLang=en-us) # Alternatives to Loud Sieve Shakers Quieter Sieve Testing Instruments "I enjoy using the **Octagon Sieve** **Shaker**. It is versatile, easy to operate, and above all, **QUIET**. The prompt and courteous service received from CSC, with our awkward purchasing process, was greatly appreciated." Gel Cady Montana Tech. Dept. of Petroleum Engineering The Octagon 1. **A Whisper Quiet Shaker** 2. **Enhanced Reproducibility** 3. **Maintenance Free** 4. **Easy to use** 5. **Used Anywhere** *Breaking News from **Shaker Sam*** **Get an Octagon now to improve the performance of your sieve testing operations. Call me at 800-621-4778 and ask for Shaker Sam, Fax us at 703-280-45142 or email [shaker_sam@cscscientific.com](mailto:shaker_sam@cscscientific.com). You can also order at our store.** "We love the **Octagon Sieve Shaker**. It replaced an ancient noisy old clunker. The **Octagon** is **quiet**, doesn’t wander, and is adjustable. We use it for sawdust and inorganic chemical particle size analysis and also to isolate specific particle size samples for QC Analysis. We haven’t had a chance to use your service because we never needed to (thus far!) Overall we feel it is a great little shaker." Lohit Tutupalli Research Scientist I took the time to write this long letter because I have seen the excitement of users when they first operate one of these quiet shakers. I wanted to be sure you had the information you needed so that you could get a similar experience. **Shaker Sam** ### Shaker Sam We Have Whisper Quiet Sieve Shakers #### You may have had the experience of using a RoTap® with it's loud banging noise. **Shaker Sam** claims that earplugs were invented for people who operate RoTaps®. This whirling dervish of a machine creates a horde of big loud ear piercing bangs and crashes every second or two. When it starts every one without earplugs leaves the lab for a **sieve test induced -- coffee break**. To create this violent bang - crash motion and sound the shaker puts world-class stress on its mechanical parts. Guess what happens, as you know .....**they break a lot**. Sam says, "There're bad for the heath of lab people and a significant time waster." ## The Alternatives Are Growing. An historic solution to the big noise was the original **Meinzer Sieve Shaker** developed and CSC Scientific. This quiet machine became a work horse for many Sieve shaker applications. The EPA Become Concerned About Noise In the WorkPlace and ISO Started to Accelerate. At about the same time that the **EPA** started to look at noise in the workplace, the **ISO** quality wave hit. The Octagon was produced to meet the stringent reproducibility requirements of **ISO** and it was a whisper Quiet antidote to the EPA noise concerns. Using digital means to control rotational and vertical performance the Octagon is easily set up to reproduce results obtained from a Ro-Tap® and nearly every other type of Sieve Shaker. ![](https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hub/75757/images//OCTAGONsmall.jpg?width=150&name=OCTAGONsmall.jpg) The design concept uses electromagnetic technology. Endecotts gave the **Octagon** a wide range of particle rotation, a big scope of particle bounce heights and a simulated but quiet tap. In trial after trial, comparative test after comparative test the **Octagon** has matched and matched and matched the results from the RoTap®. The **Octagon** can replace your current ear splitting bang - crash sieve shaker with a *whisper quiet* test protocol. Imagine having a phone conversation while a sieve test is in progress. You can even listen to (and hear) music. Gone are the **earplugs** and the -- **sieve test induced -- coffee breaks**. It protects the hearing of your lab people, cuts down wasted time and provide fast reproducible results. ## A further bonus --- No moving Parts --- No Maintenence Now if you remember ---- the bang - crash stress breaks *shaker parts*. The **Octagon** has none of that --- *no moving parts*. That's right a whisper quiet match of sieve test results with no moving parts. **As close as you can get to a maintenance free operation.** **You don’t even have to bolt it down !!** **It'salso easy to load and unload !!** ## Octagon Success Breeds A Quiet Economy Model ![](https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hub/75757/images//MEINZER2small.jpg?width=150&name=MEINZER2small.jpg) Analysis of the success, over a 30-year period, of the original Meinzer shaker in solving many of the straightforward sieve testing problems pointed to the opportunities for modernization. In collaboration with Endecotts, we developed a new economy shaker built on the electromagnetic foundation of the Octagon. A new quiet shaker was born …. Known as the Meinzer II. Operating on the same principles of matching official and de facto standards, maintaining data integrity with historical records and operating with a whisper quiet soundlessness. **Sam Says "Don't Be Afraid Quiet Will Work."** On Application after application, standards and results have been matched and the *Whisper Quiet* **Octagon** has replaced the bang-crash model. Not only has the **Digital Octagon**, with its infinite adjustability been replacing the bang - crash but its **Meinzer II** offspring has shown an unexpected capacity to do the same on tough applications. In fact the Florida Geological Survey (FGS) conducted an exhaustive comparison of the Ro Tap and the **Meinzer II**. Based on the study results **[FGS](https://www.cscscientific.com/hs-fs/docs/Florida%20Geological%20Survey%20Comparison.pdf?hsLang=en-us)** conluded: **“RoTap® and Meinzer II shakers result in insignificantly different outcomes.”** ***Remember*** in comparative test after comparative test the **Octagon** duplicates the RoTap® results and the Meinzer II follows the same course. **Shaker Sam would like to review one more time ......** #### These shakers - **Protect** Your Hearing - Cause **Shaker Maintenance** to Plummet to Near Zero - **Maintain Integrity and Comparability** of Historical and Current Sieve Test Results - Produce ISO Level **reproducibility** - Get to end points in the **optimum time**. - Provide **operational ease** - **Accomodate** 3 inch to 8 inch diameter sieves. With the **Octagon** or the **Meinzer II** you get all these operational rewards in a **quiet maintenance free sieve shaker**. If you wish to discuss the application of either the **Octagon** or the **Meinzer II** to your operation, call me at **1-800-621-4778 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting ![](chrome-extension://lifbcibllhkdhoafpjfnlhfpfgnpldfl/numbers_button_skype_logo.png)FREE 1-800-621-4778end_of_the_skype_highlighting** or FAX me at 1-703-280-5142 or Email me at **[shaker_sam@cscscientific.com](mailto:shaker_sam@cscscientific.com)**. You can order on Line at our [**web store**](http://shopping.netsuite.com/s.nl;jsessionid=ac112b321f43ae6b99e8b23f4c9398d8fb8f85e60b39.e3eSc38TaNqNe34Pa38Ta38Lbhr0?c=454464&sc=17&category=23). Thank you for your interest and your visit. I hope we have the opportunity to deliver to you a quiet trouble-free environment for your sieve testing. 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