This style Tuttnauer autclave dates back to 1988-1989

  This Tuttnauer 1730 dates back to 1991

 This Tuttnauer Manual Autoclave would be representative of models from  1992-mid 2007 with the door cover and color scheme.

 Current late 2007 to present

The best way to tell the age is by the serial number. All Tuttnauer Serial Numbers are seven digits long. Broken down they would show:

example- 2302121  (23) yr of manufacture (02) month of manufacture (121) Unit#

So, the serial number above shows that it was the 121st. unit built in February of 2003.

We agree that a new autoclave is a big investment but buying a used autoclave is much like buying a used car. The big difference being that most of the used autoclaves offered For sale are not "Certified" and warranted the same way cars are. For example, how much money do you really save purchasing an 17 year old  Tuttnauer 1730 autoclave for $1150.00 with a 30 day warranty when you can purchase a new one for $1672.00 with a Full One Year Manufacturers Parts and Labor Warranty?

Remember, an autoclave is a metal chamber that gets beat up every day by high heat, pressure, water, fluctuations in electricity and everday wear and tear. After 10+ years of service these unit have heat up and cooled down thousands of times. Think of an expansion joint on a bridge with constant expanding and contracting how bumpy do they get. The same can happen to an autoclave chamber from just plain old age or laxed maintenance. Tuttnauer warrants their chambers from manufacturers defects for ten years so we know they last that long. Your practice needs a reliable autoclave. Without clean instruments you have no billing!!  How many times have you seen an item description that says taken out of a facility that has upgraded! ? This should be a red flag. To me it means the last owner had some questions about its reliability or that the repair cost exceeded more that 50% of the replacement cost. My favorite line is "working when taken out of service-we do not have the ability to test- but it turns on" so unit is "Sold As-IS".  How warm and fuzzy does that make you feel?