

SEM FTW: Meryl lives again
Happy Holidays! Here is a 2mm stainless steel screw. It’s sitting on a standard, non-shrunken quarter for scale. Here it is under Meryl’s beam at […]

Resurrecting a roughing pump
Meryl was a little disheveled when she arrived at the shop. She had been in storage for a few years, and while mostly complete, she […]

A tale of two microscopes
I recently became the proud owner of a couple of discarded JEOL scanning electron microscopes. The big one (“Milly“) is a JSM-6320F from the early […]