[sudo-discuss] SEM microscope

[niki]

It's possible someone might be driving back up to the bay from Los Angeles
after the holidays and could pick it up (we could paypal them the money
perhaps?).. let's ask around!

N

On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 2:58 AM, Jake <jake at spaz.org> wrote:

> Yes well it seems nothing is without complication.  I re-read the original
> email and then typed in "Santa Barbara" to my computer, and I discovered
> that it is a place over 300 miles away by the 101.
>
> I have asked for more information about the machine and pictures, so that
> we can be convinced that it is real before we budget for going to get it.
>
> If funds are available, I may be willing to drive a rented U-haul truck
> from L.A. to pick up the machine and then drive up to Oakland with it,
> since i'll be at LAX on january 11th anyway.
>
> How excited are we about this machine?
>
> -jake
>
>
> On Mon, 22 Dec 2014, Jake wrote:
>
>  We have been offered a scanning electron microscope.  I have accepted and
>> marc and I will go get it if it's still available.
>>
>> I don't know if it has a spectral detector for EDS, but I got one at
>> Urban Ore yesterday for $25, so we can add that functionality if it
>> doesn't already have it.
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy-dispersive_X-ray_spectroscopy
>>
>> this picture was taken with a SEM like the one we're getting:
>>
>> http://microscopy.tamu.edu/picture-of-the-month/PoM_708.jpg/image_large
>>
>> here is what the machine probably looks like, based on a google search of
>> Jeol JSM 6400
>>
>> https://engineering.purdue.edu/MSE/Research/Facilities/
>> XRayFacility/Microstructural/Microstructural/6400_SEM.jpg
>>
>> we can put it on the border / neutral zone between sudoroom and CCL like
>> the CSAM and tesla coil.
>>
>> -jake
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> So, yeah, I can potentially grab a Jeol JSM 6400. You should look at
>> pics. It is fairly large.
>>
>> Right now it is in Santa Barbara. I don't have a good plan for moving it,
>> or putting it somewhere (hopefully where
>> people can use it). The company that bought it was told it works when
>> they bought it, but they never tested it. I
>> should note that I am talking to a few people and I'm hoping one of them
>> works out.
>>
>> I would need to get it Jan 19-20.
>>
>> Does this still interest you?
>>
>>
>>
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