Diff pump first looks
Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2013 6:07 pm
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Excellent, I look forward to meeting you in person.Carl Willis wrote:I will be at HEAS.
Haha, interesting... Yes you can say that again... Complete with plastic reactor (PERFECT DESCRIPTION LOL) and an ominous looking cobalt chamber where we stored a couch... Yes... A couch... Obviously poorly funded. Professors were great though. And yes, I spent most of my days in the lab and got some time on the reactor. Since the NE program was so small (All my classes had about the same 5 - 10 people) we all spent most of our time in the "lounge" of the lab working.Carl Willis wrote:UNM has an interesting NE program, complete with the unique little 6-watt plastic nuclear reactor. Did you get to operate it at all?
Excellent! Thank you for the offer. I'm in and out of ABQ occasionally. I still have lots of friends out that way and try to visit as often as I can.Carl Willis wrote: I work and live about a mile from main campus. If you come back this way, I have a guest bedroom.
Ok excellent, I will clean it up and install. Thanks for the advice.Carl Willis wrote:Anyway, about the diff pump, I would do nothing else to it. Maybe wash with some Brakleen if it has obvious deposits from cracked oil, but otherwise forget it and just put it in service. Very little can go wrong with this pump.
Yup I agree, that's the way to go for anything you want super clean. I love acetone. Will be sure to give it a good soak and leave it there till ready to install.Richard Hull wrote:I would follow it up with a long soak in acetone
Yeah, after seeing my first one now in person, I even considered building my own haha. Very simple concept. I wont be, but it was a fun concept for a few seconds. Although, it would make mating the diffpump to the chamber VERY easy. Maybe it is time to do some experimentation and break out the Solidworks and CNC lathesRichard Hull wrote: Diff pumps, as Carl notes, are pretty bullet proof with zero moving parts there is just nothing to go wrong beyond a burned out heater coil and they are user replacable in most instances.