Stupid FNG!

Stiganator

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I leave the lab today for 1 hour to listen to a lecture. I come back and new guy had broken a $10,000 high precision slicer.

Our lab is essentially shut down until it is repaired. Great. I guess I'll have time to finish writing the analysis routines.
 

Stiganator

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Well if you like your potatoes to have micron precision thickness.....but we use it to section rat brains.
 

QueBert

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so what happens to one who breaks a $10,000 slicer? I worried when I broke a $100 fax machine at one of my jobs, can't imagine something 10k broke due to me
 

IronWing

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Originally posted by: Stiganator
Well if you like your potatoes to have micron precision thickness.....but we use it to section rat brains.

Have you figured out why McCain beat Romney yet?
 

kranky

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Originally posted by: Stiganator
Well if you like your potatoes to have micron precision thickness.....but we use it to section rat brains.

You'd save a lot of time with the Polytron.. Unless, of course, you're really set on the slicing thing.
 

Stiganator

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Originally posted by: ironwing
Originally posted by: Stiganator
Well if you like your potatoes to have micron precision thickness.....but we use it to section rat brains.

Have you figured out why McCain beat Romney yet?

Huh? I've not thought about it, but I'm pretty sure Romney dropping out has something to do with it.
 

TheoPetro

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my first 2 weeks in the lab they let me play with gold plated, 2micron spacers...I contaminated a 500g bottle. It was a shit ton of money but the guy who had me do it didnt get too pissed about it. Needless to say I never got to use them again.

and that my friends is why im a finance major now :)
 

Stiganator

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I fixed it :) Remarkably, the machine is very simple, I move the limit switches and moved the stepper motor plate so the belts would tighten up.
 

RESmonkey

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You guys get to 'play' with said chemistry utilities in college? My AP chem class forces us to follow procedural labs that suck. Heavily.
 

Born2bwire

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Originally posted by: kranky
Originally posted by: Stiganator
Well if you like your potatoes to have micron precision thickness.....but we use it to section rat brains.

You'd save a lot of time with the Polytron.. Unless, of course, you're really set on the slicing thing.

Mmmm... mouseshakes.
 

Iron Woode

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Originally posted by: Stiganator
I fixed it :) Remarkably, the machine is very simple, I move the limit switches and moved the stepper motor plate so the belts would tighten up.
reminds me of setting the alignment on a Commodore 1541 drive, back in the day.

:p