It's a sad time here in the third floor lab. Dr. Chaudhary's long term lab companion is being moved to lab equipment hospice care: the Thermolyne 62700 Muffle Furnace. Right when I need to use it, too! Grrrr, lab equipment. First I can't get the Flash CN analyzer to work, and now our muffle furnace is on the fritz.
This is not what you want to see when you are planing to run your samples. So, we have a second, larger furnace in the downstairs lab, but it is also in a bad way. This second furnace is "new to us" and, as such, is missing quite a few parts, including internal shelves and a plug. A freaking plug! The back of the machine looks pretty naked without a plug to hook up to an outlet.
I've contacted ThemoScientific and they said that the thermal control
panel needs to be replaced. Unfortunately, this part costs 640$, and
that's uninstalled. I'm like, "Okay, where's that money ganna come
from?" Dr. Chaudhary said, "No way. That's not ganna happen."
Oh,
well. I guess I'll be putting all my eggs in the
lets-just-get-a-new-plug-for-the-other-furnace basket. That or I'll have
to face the Flash again (ugh *shiver*). I'm really not as upset as I may sound. It's just that I was hoping
to run my soil samples back in October, and it is now half way through
November, but all you can do is go with the flow.
