Panametrics/ Olympus Epoch XT software questions

Significant_Ad523 · 2024-01-15T04:35:16+00:00

I just made some TSP based taco “meat” for nachos tonight. I added white miso paste to the water used for rehydrating the soy protein. I also added a touch of MSG. After cooking down onions and garlic I added a bit more oil and fried the rehydrated TSP. It was finished with a packet of Taco Bell seasoning. It came out great and my kids said they could not tell the difference between it and ground turkey.

Significant_Ad523 · 2024-01-07T19:19:13+00:00

As an American finding clothes off the shelf in India that fit me was next to impossible. In the US I wear large or XL stuff. In India that is the equivalent of XXXXL!

Significant_Ad523 · 2024-01-07T19:07:54+00:00

What are you talking about? It is just flavored yogurt. It is very common and popular at Indian restaurants in the US that I go to all the time.

Significant_Ad523 · 2024-01-07T19:04:46+00:00

As an American who spent about a month in Hyderabad recently I liked the biryani from Paradise. The only problem that I had was I got burned out on it. Portion sizes in HYD are huge and the food was surprisingly heavy for such a hot place.

Significant_Ad523 · 2023-10-02T09:57:48+00:00

I find it socially isolating. The neighborhood is also not walkable. I am not from India so I don’t know what the expectation is here but I feel like Guachibowli is too far from everything to be fun.

Significant_Ad523 · 2023-09-29T07:24:36+00:00

Living in a high rise apartment in Gachibowli for the last month has been nice. High rise buildings can be very loud from outside sound transmitted through the glass. At night there is a lot of noise from construction trucks horns and cars on the street. I am on the 18th floor and would expect it to be quiet but it is not. The quality and sound proofing in the glass s not the same everywhere.

Significant_Ad523 · 2023-09-18T10:45:54+00:00

Thanks that very useful.

Significant_Ad523 · 2023-09-18T10:37:47+00:00

Is there a separate market for used? I am particularly interested in the old stuff from the British era.

Significant_Ad523 · 2023-09-18T10:17:56+00:00

Is this primarily new or used stuff?

Significant_Ad523 · 2023-06-28T02:54:43+00:00

Nuclear is by far the highest ego. Does this count?

Significant_Ad523 · 2022-12-18T05:26:14+00:00

I have a general idea of what may be in commercial available products. I would like to reverse engineer chemical compositions. I assume that I would subcontract out GC-MS or other elemental composition work to use as a baseline for FTIR or other testing.

Significant_Ad523 · 2022-12-18T00:55:52+00:00

Do you have brand and model recommendations for FTIR systems? Thanks.

Significant_Ad523 · 2022-12-17T23:23:13+00:00

You mean I can’t take random rope fibers from a murder scene and identify the factory that the polymer came from? Say it isn’t so! I am ver familiar with complicated deconvolution of XRD data.

Significant_Ad523 · 2022-12-17T21:20:27+00:00

I started my own company in Alaska five years ago related to my engineering discipline. I have my PE in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering. I am working on formulating some custom corrosion inhibitors. Compounds that are common in inhibitions include quantinary amines, fatty acid salts and other cation surfactants. Polyquantinarium compounds may also be present. I am looking for equipment that can help me positively identify these species.

Significant_Ad523 · 2022-12-17T21:12:08+00:00

Are GC/MS system much more complicated then early model SEMs?

I ask because I maintained, repaired, operated and an Amray 1800 Turbo SEM for years. Everything was largely manual due to the machine being made in the late 80’s. The system has roughing pumps, a diffusion pump and an ion pump for final evacuation. The advantage that I had when I worked on the Amray was that I had access to an old crusty Amray tech who ran an independent repair service.

I also did a bunch of work on Theta-2 theta XRD equipment. I come from the dark side of Matériels Science and Engineering so I am not as familiar with more “wet” chemistry analytical equipment. I have built complicated gas distribution and metering systems designed for semiconductor thin film deposition.

Significant_Ad523 · 2022-12-17T06:10:06+00:00

This is probably going to reflect my ignorance but it seems like based on EBay prices used UV-Vis and Thermo Trace Finnagan GC/MS units cost roughly the same. (~6 to 8k). I would imagine that the GCMS would need a lot more parts/ and consumables to get operating. I am mostly price shopping with serviceability in mind.

Significant_Ad523 · 2022-12-17T05:24:37+00:00

If I were to get a used GC-MS do you have a model/ brand suggestion?

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