Comments on: YOU AND THE OBEDIENT Atom http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/05/08/you-and-the-obedient-atom/ Yesterday's tomorrow, today. Sun, 07 Sep 2008 02:31:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: NikFromNYC http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/05/08/you-and-the-obedient-atom/#comment-1025435 NikFromNYC Tue, 15 Jan 2008 19:39:25 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/05/08/you-and-the-obedient-atom/#comment-1025435 Ah progress. Look very closely at the blackish background of the 'Flasks' picture. There is a "monkey bars" clamp that is of Art Nouveau design, made of (corrosion-resistant) bronze. I was a bechtop chemist in grad school. These were no longer available in catalogs. By hook and crook I obtained two of them to replace the easily strippable cheapo and usually pitted aluminum ones the stock room sold. I still have one. You could use a pliers to really tighten the hell out of them, when needed, whereas the aluminum ones snapped off the thumb screw tab. The same thing went for "lab jacks" which after you clamp your flask to the monkey bar, you use to raiser or lower a formed heating blanket up to the flask. They are built like those old belt-on "roller skates". My advisor had a mild heart attack when I ordered several hundred dollars of industrial quality stainless steel ones, but I was the best student he had lately had, so I got away with a mere warning, which I took to mean a blank check for the future, successfully. Talent likes to be flattered. Ah progress. Look very closely at the blackish background of the ‘Flasks’ picture. There is a “monkey bars” clamp that is of Art Nouveau design, made of (corrosion-resistant) bronze. I was a bechtop chemist in grad school. These were no longer available in catalogs. By hook and crook I obtained two of them to replace the easily strippable cheapo and usually pitted aluminum ones the stock room sold. I still have one. You could use a pliers to really tighten the hell out of them, when needed, whereas the aluminum ones snapped off the thumb screw tab.

The same thing went for “lab jacks” which after you clamp your flask to the monkey bar, you use to raiser or lower a formed heating blanket up to the flask. They are built like those old belt-on “roller skates”. My advisor had a mild heart attack when I ordered several hundred dollars of industrial quality stainless steel ones, but I was the best student he had lately had, so I got away with a mere warning, which I took to mean a blank check for the future, successfully. Talent likes to be flattered.

]]> By: Charlie http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/05/08/you-and-the-obedient-atom/#comment-158413 Charlie Wed, 09 May 2007 16:43:30 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/05/08/you-and-the-obedient-atom/#comment-158413 Fixed. Thanks. Fixed. Thanks.

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The “crazy picture” link in the lede doesn’t work.
Stan

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