{"id":1439,"date":"2007-05-24T07:25:11","date_gmt":"2007-05-24T07:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/05\/24\/good-stuff-going-to-waste\/"},"modified":"2007-05-24T07:25:11","modified_gmt":"2007-05-24T07:25:11","slug":"good-stuff-going-to-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/05\/24\/good-stuff-going-to-waste\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Stuff Going to Waste"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"i-6fbf3e2a3c093d17020b280f2a0a376e-sm_bomem.jpg\"Somewhere between yesterday’s posts about uselesss junk<\/a> and useful antiques<\/a>, there’s this. The picture to the right is a tragedy in progress, though is might not look that way: It’s an FTIR spectrometer left behind by the previous occupant of my lab.<\/p>\n

It’s a top-of-the-line instrument, a Bomem DA-8 spectrophotometer, and a new one will set you back better than $100,000. It’s no use to me, though, as it’s designed to make measurements of spectra in the far infrared– wavelengths of a couple of microns or more, well past the 800 nm sort of range where I work. So it sits there in the lab, next to one of the optical tables, and ocasionally things get piled on top of it.<\/p>\n

I actually made an effort to find somebody to buy it a couple of years ago, and thought I had a buyer, but the deal fell through, so it’s still there. If you know anybody who would want one of these, have them contact me, because I’ll sell it for a reasonable price.<\/p>\n

(In a similarly crass commercial vein, we also have a picosecond pulsed YAG and dye laser system, left behind by the same guy. Again, it’s just taking up space in our storage room (you can see a bit of it in the picture in the “Lab Relics” post), so if you’ve got a use for it, let me know…)<\/p>\n

Know any other stories of good equipment tragically going to waste? Leave them in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Somewhere between yesterday’s posts about uselesss junk and useful antiques, there’s this. The picture to the right is a tragedy in progress, though is might not look that way: It’s an FTIR spectrometer left behind by the previous occupant of my lab. It’s a top-of-the-line instrument, a Bomem DA-8 spectrophotometer, and a new one will… Continue reading Good Stuff Going to Waste<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my_lab","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}