Diary of a Mad Scientist

I just had great news about my remaining GC setup. The unit itself was $1,000, donations paid for a quarter of that, thank you. I was facing a remaining $2700ish in costs - a $1500 cool-on-column injector, a $580ish column/guard column, and the gas bottle/gas regulator costs (probably about $250 all together). I’d gotten the money together for that and was ready to drop it all this week on the parts.

It turned out that the school where I’m placing the GC finagled a trade for some other equipment, so we ‘re getting the expensive cool-on-column injector essentially “for free” now. Amazing. They’re also buying the gas regulators for their own unit, and I can use theirs until I move my machine out of there, so I’m now only having to purchase the column alone. Fantastic.

The downside is this is still a few weeks from operational, but we’re on track for coming online with it.

Mark