We have, as of yet, not adorned the room with Washington or Lee. We think that something slipped and cut off the bottom of the tubes during a change. At least that would explain what we saw. Unfortunately, both broken tubes were reference samples. $$$ The good news is that I'm just helping during vacations and, being a theorist, none of this actually affects me. ;-)
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Perry Pellechia <[email protected]> wrote: > I have brought cameras up to the instruments in my facility many times > and never seen any effects on the image/sensor. However, I never went > above or below the bore and that is where the strongest fringing > fields are present. Sorry to hear about your sample changer problems. > I do not have any JEOL equipment so I have no advice other than to > say that samples changers on these things can be a PIA. > > We have Gamecocks on the wall behind one of our "400s" > http://homer.chem.sc.edu/new_images/a400.jpg > > > <----------------------------------------------------> > Perry Pellechia > Home Page: http://homer.chem.sc.edu/perry > <----------------------------------------------------> > > > On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Steven Desjardins <[email protected]> wrote: >> The autosampler on our NMR (like an MRI but with a smaller hole) has >> broken a few sample tubes in the past week, and this is a huge >> nuisance because we need to remove a big piece of sensitive tech to >> clean it out. I was trying to take pictures with the Q to send to the >> company, but when I got too close the LCD would just lose the picture >> but still show the info, just like when the lens cap is still on. I >> guess the magnetic field just affects the sensor? Anyway, since the >> field has a funny shape I moved back and around until I could get some >> shots. The first is the magnet with a lovely Vermeer print on the >> back wall: >> >> http://drd1135.smugmug.com/Photography/pdml/i-djRXqM4/0/L/NMR-L.jpg >> >> and this is the autosampler from above (a dimple in the magnetic >> field) showing the broken tube >> >> http://drd1135.smugmug.com/Photography/pdml/i-DtgkTpk/0/L/broken-tube-L.jpg >> >> I also missed the bottom step of the ladder after taking this and made >> a less than graceful dismount.:-o >> >> -- >> Steve Desjardins >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Steve Desjardins -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
