Ted Retirement Party

 After a long and exciting career with us, Ted is retiring. We threw a small barbecue going away party for him, inviting many of the people at Lamont (or retired) that have worked alongside Ted through the years. 

A case of rolling rocks (historical drink of the lab) was donated by Chris Marone.

A round of shots may or may not have been consumed while I was away at a meeting.

Even the geese (who are fed regularly by Ted) came by to give their regards.

And Hatsuki arranged this amazing tribute, getting input and old photos from loads of people from over the years. 

Shots from the machine shop

Just a collection of shots from the machine shop:

Undergrad intern Claire McGillis helps machine a new cryostat: 

That time Elenore came to the lab and Ted got her to work on the old triax

Vincent using the surface grinder to prep side rocks for his ice-on-rock friction project

Ted explains the surface grinder to Dan, who is helping prep samples for carbonation experiments.

I make Seth stop and show off his first attempt at freezing in a transducer to capture seismicity during sliding of ice on till.

Hatsuki begins fabricating a box within which she will make a spray foam insulation mold.

 

Reassembling the old biax

When me moved to the machine shop, aka the Instrument Building, the biax needed to be taken apart. And there it sat on a pallet in the warehouse for years. But I didn't want Ted to retire before we put it back together. He was, after all, the only one who could decipher the specs. 

sort of....

With Charlotte's help, the pieces were all located and a plan put in motion.

And with Abhishek manning the chain fall, inner parts were eventually placed inside the outer parts. 

We would probably need to redo the motor and definitely the control system if we were to use it again, but it is now successfully reassembled and awaiting some new project.