Installation of the X'Pert PRO X-ray diffractometer (XRD)
In July 2004 a new X'Pert PRO X-ray diffractometer was delivered an installed into the x-ray laboratory on the first floor of the Geology building.
The total weight of the system was ca. 1.5 tonnes and was lifted from the delivery truck onto temporary scaffolding erected outside the building. The window and surround needed to be removed and the replaced once the diffractometer was in place on steel plates in the laboratory.
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The Geology Department's new XRD arrives by truck and is subsequently lifted to the first floor by crane. Damian Walls (lower left) watches. |
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The smaller of the two boxes on scaffolding within the laboratory. Outside the room the diffractometer in the delivery box rests on two-storey high scaffolding built outside the removed window. |
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Mr Lee and Damian Walls perform calibration tests shortly after the diffractometer was installed and turned on. |
