I want to take this instrument and blow it up

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Perkin Elmber 3b gas chromatograph. It’s like watching paint dry.

It doesn’t even have an auto loader. So you have to inject the substance yourself. Which means you have to be consistent. It’s the biggest piece of poop in the world.

Oh, and the paper moves at 2 or 3 centimeters per minute. And it sucks. And I’m typically very whiney, so you could imagine be whining about this. Although even the army kid was whining about this, and he’s not one to complain about anything.

I better be able to make some pure ass drugs when I’m done with this shit. I’m going to need them…

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perkin elmer…now theres a name i haven’t heard in a while. i used to work on some of their crap when i was at moog

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Ouch who has that dinosauer technology?

Here is what I use

Thermo DSQ GC/MS

Hewlett Packard 5890 with auto injector
http://www.gmi-inc.com/images/HP%205890%20GC.jpg

BTW have fun with those manual injections

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They are terrible. Thermo makes much better instruments. And Hewlett Packard, too.

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We have a model similar to that, but we aren’t allowed to use it. :frowning: This is NCCC’s science and laboratory technology program.

What do you do for a livings?

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I use to work for Ortho Clinical Diagnostics, we made blood anylizers for hospitals and shit

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Yea, the one we have at Canisius is a lot like that. Slow as hell, and has to be manually injected. It’s ridiculous.

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Ew. If I had to do GC or HPLC for a living I would have to have lots of drugs. lots and lots of good drugs.

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yeah until you are an upperclassman. gc/ms, uv vis with autoscanning, ft-ir, nmr, couple hplc and another gc with an autoinjector. :pimp:

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Actually, we’ve done:
visible spectroscopy (spec 20, gen 20…and oh goodness colorimetry with a klett-summerson–talk about a blast from the past!!!)
UV/Vis (perkin elmer POS, again…but at least it’s from the past 10 years)
atomic absorption spectroscopy
IR–both disperisve and fourier transform
NMR
gc
hplc
and we’re ending with ICP, because they just hooked it up

And I’m only a sophmore.

Oh memories. OH MEMORIES. I only have one more lab to do. :frowning: