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Nu Perspective install is go!

Unboxing!

Nu Perspective mass spec being hoisted to its new home.

Nu arrival! Despite lockdown 3.0, today we've taken delivery of a Nu Perspective IRMS. Installation will happen once normal lab working is resumed.

Delta V source cleaning time. Luckily, no bits left over!

Getting the lab running again after the Covid-19 lockdown. The venerable SIRA runs a perfect set a Carrara Z standards. The journeyman MAT253/Kiel is also performing well after it's forced hibernation.

Under the hood: the Gasbench. The 8 port Valco valve rotates to send aliquots of sample headspace CO2 to the mass spec in a stream of helium carrier gas.

Repair note: Picarro cavity temperature not stable? These internal fans are the likely culprit. Swap them out for new ones and you should be good to go

Illustrative cartoon by Simon Crowhurst of what we do....

Godwin Lab History Vault December 2005 - The SIRA has a midlife move to it's new home on the first floor of Earth Sciences. It's still going strong!

Here's a rare view of a MAT 253 source in situ. The turbo pump had been removed whilst a leak is investigated