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Anthony R. – dewar wrangler extraordinaire!

Bycorie June 26, 2018

From July 2017 to May 2018, the BCSB received (and shipped back after beamtime) 758 dewars. Most of these were handled by Anthony. Wow!

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Tour of the ALS ring
Bycorie November 17, 2015

After our last PRT meeting on Nov 4, Steve Rossi took a group on a tour inside the ALS ring to point out the future site of the Gemini insertion device. This month and next are a great time to visit the ALS, since the ring tunnel is open and available for touring.

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Pilatus on 5.0.2 has two new modules
Bycorie March 23, 2016

Dectris was here at the ALS during the recent 2-bunch mode, and re-installed two of the modules on the Pilatus detector on beamline 5.0.2. Users may not have noticed, but the detector was previously missing panels on the far edges. These are now in good working order, and several test data sets have been collected…

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And… it works!
Bycorie December 14, 2016

Marc collected a lysozyme dataset with the new Pilatus 6M detector. All modules are good.

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Shutdown work in progress
Bycorie July 18, 2018

ALS is down for the month of July and the first week or so of August. We are taking the opportunity to do a bunch of preventative maintenance on our beamlines. Some of the items include: – cleaning the Be window on 502 (may help to decrease scatter in images) – replacing air lines –…

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Beamline 8.2.1 just deposited its 1000th structure
Bycorie December 5, 2018

Congrats, beamline 8.2.1!

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Pin base warmer looking good
Bycorie February 27, 2017

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:

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