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The rock and ice mechanics lab at Lamont-Doherty is led by PIs Christine McCarthy and Ben Holtzman. Now, more than ever, we are in the process of growing our lab and building our experimental program. Along with a team of postdocs, undergrads, grads, techs, and longtime staff engineer Ted, we are rehabilitating and revamping some of the old equipment and building and buying new rigs for exciting new experiments on both rock and ice. You can follow along with our progress here.

Friday, 31 January 2025

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.





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