It gets worse before it gets better
The robot dewars have been taken off of 502 and 503 in order to replace the motors and perform maintenance on the stages.
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Anthony R. – dewar wrangler extraordinaire!
From July 2017 to May 2018, the BCSB received (and shipped back after beamtime) 758 dewars. Most of these were handled by Anthony. Wow!
Goodbye, Charlie!
Sadly, today was Charlie Eigenbrot’s last PRT meeting, since he is retiring from Genentech in June. We will miss him! (But we do hope we comes back to visit us periodically at the synchrotron)
Pin base warmer looking good
We measured the temperature at the sample during warming of the pin base, and preliminary tests so far show that the heat is not transferred to the loop during two minutes of base warming. Tests are continuing now to determine how well the warmer removes ice and frost from the bases.
Images of a crystal in a loop before and after using the pin base warmer:
