Something to ponder 02

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

I have just found this catalogue:
http://www.labhoo.com/brochures/B9006_Microscopy_Stage_CatalogV79b_C.pdf

Sixty pages, but downloaded very quickly.

Some very interesting kit, and good sketches.

MichaelG.

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

See also:
http://www.physikinstrumente.com/en/products/linear_actuator/piline.php

[alan frostParticipant @alanfrost17805]

Michael

 

You’d be amazed at what the local university throws into skips. . Hospitals, the military and educational establishments all buy top quality stuff and bin it at the slightest excuse (well, its only taxpayers money after all). A while back my skip diving partner (he enters the skips with a rope round his ankle and I stand by with my engine crane in case he needs to be hauled to safety ) and I could have had an electron microscope and at about the same time we rescued about 10 Oertling precision balances. We would have walked the Nobel prize for weighing had we entered..Top quality benches and chrome plated storage racks on wheels are common fare,

Mind you its not all easy work -the university is very disorganised and often throw out beautiful benches but do not always bother to keep matching legs and bench tops together. Disgraceful!! Do they think that as pensioners we have all day to sort this stuff?A while ago I rescued a double beam oscilloscope , thinking I’d have to do a few repairs. I was right I had to put a plug on it. It had failed the Elfin pastry electrical tests. Well I come from Bill Bryson’s indestructible generation (grew up in solid smoke , did n’t have a little safety seat or crash helmet ,swam in polio infested swimming pools etc. etc ) and its fine for me. Selfishly the University tends to hang on to the higher bandwidth models.

 Other rescued items include lots of electric motors, about 200 metres of stainless steel (8 ton breaking strain) cable etc. My friend when he built his house extension pretty well obtained all his building materials from the University skips. He has some of the most intelligent walls and ceilings in the country.

Regarding the indestructibles ,like all of my generation , my house and everyone else’s were filled with smoke , while the local cinemas had difficulty projecting the film through smoke clouds resembling intergalactic dust clouds. How many kids did I know with asthma, hayfever , allergies , or respiratory diseases ? One or two over my entire school life of 15 years. Nowadays half of any class suffer-no immunity-a slight smoke haze lays them low -we could cope with large viscous lumps of tobacco smoke.

Anyway , enuff elderly ravings -must check out your email references given in last postings. Regards

Edited By alan frost on 15/07/2011 20:57:15

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