dear people with old magnets/consoles of the varian vintage: my boss has just told me to heave our old system. it pains me greatly to see what could be a decent e.g. learning system go to be melted down.
the system was/is originally a gn300 wide bore [oxford 300/89], unshielded magnet connected to an omega console. that console is long gone. it was, however, updated to a varian system running vnmr6.1c/vnmrj1.1d [i have all the original install disks. one set in the original wrappers…]. although it was a 300, the console was outfitted with a 500 megacycle pts system to look forward to maybe getting a higher field magnet - never happened.
the system had a very nice imaging insert that was seldom used. i believe it was called ‘microstar’. it was interfaced to 3 ge techron 8606’s. i have about 5 of them to spare. it also had a bunch of various probes of various diameters; i want to keep a couple for platforms to build, but that leaves about 5 or 6 of various frequency ranges. i have a small collection of pts’ [if that is the plural].
the magnet is at room temperature and was controllably brought to that setting by my highly capable friend dick marsh, so it should be able to be brought to field pretty easily. i have all the shipping restraints.
the console cannot just power up and run: there is likely some issue with the shim power supply or one of the shim channels; the spectrometer drifts, but not the magnet. toward the end of the magnet’s career, a clever graduate student used to do his signal averaging by acquiring spectra one at a time, broadening and phasing, and adding after the fact in matlab. he got really nice data [for phosphorous in a mouse leg…], but spiffy 2 and 3 - d data acquisition paradigms will require a bit more tweaking of the system.
i would be amenable to parting out, as well. i just do not want to see this system head to a landfill. if i had some way to pay for the cryogens, i would put it in my garage and use it as quality control for my home brewing. [am i allowed to say that?]
please contact me for more information, if my poor aging/aged system can help you keep yours alive, etc.
egs
Eric Shankland
Department of Radiology
Box 357115
1959 NE Pacific Ave
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington 98195
206.685.3533 - lab
206.543.3495 - FAX
shanklan_at_u.washington.edu
Received on Mon Oct 17 2016 - 09:08:09 MST