Thanks for the many, many responses I received on this issue!
(You can stop sending them now.)
If a summary is desired, please e-mail me.
Gary Strahan
>
>
> We have an old (circa 1984) GE QE-300 with Tecmag MacNMR upgrade (1994?)
> that we are thinking of moving to our new NMR Facilities in a new building.
>
> We are trying to find a reliable company that can carefully, gently and
> inexpensively =) move this old reliable creature. Unfortunately, because
> of its age, some of the console boards are not as robust as they once
> were, and the connections between them and the back-plane of the cage
> is on the loose side. Hence we have concerns that it might not survive
> a move. Opinions?
>
> Ideally we will find the money to upgrade/replace this magnet, and we
> are working on that angle, too, but we first need to establish the cost
> of moving it, and who might be able to do it.
>
> Figuring out who best to move it is made more difficult since it is
> an elderly, "hybrid" machine which is not really supported by Bruker
> any more. (When last I checked, Bruker had only one engineer left who
> still knew these instruments.)
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Gary Strahan
>
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Gary Strahan, Ph.D.
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
University of Maryland at Baltimore
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