@noiob that is, yes we tried that and no it didn't work
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@noiob that was before we knew the valve was just plain broken and not just leaking
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@Felthry haha, worth a try
luckily expensive lab equipment is one of the few things that people actually expect you to repair, I guess
@noiob not anymore, but in the 90s yeah and in the 80s absolutely
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@Felthry well, I'm in the wrong field to use expensive lab equipement but I've worked around electron microscopes and those are definitely not getting replaced when a part fails
@noiob electron microscopes are a different sort of thing
depends on what part fails though. if something in the cooling system fails it might be fixable, if the vacuum chamber itself fails you're probably looking at a new SEM
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@Felthry I bet they'll try duct tape first, or like, epoxy
@Felthry (and by "around" I mean I've literally constructed coils around electron microscopes to compensate ambient magnetic fields)
@noiob actually yes
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