turns out, when you buy used highly specialized electro-pneumatic laboratory equipment that
- was built in 1990
- from designs that date to 1980
- by a company that no longer exists
- and that hasn't been turned on in over a decade
it's kinda tough to get it working again and involves being *extremely* relieved to find that a company still manufactures a part you need, even if it's a 7-week lead time, because how the hell else were we going to replace that broken valve
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@Felthry wait, you can't fix highly specialized electro-pneumatic laboratory equipment with duct tape? have you tried? 😉
@noiob actually yes
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@noiob that is, yes we tried that and no it didn't work
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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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