Home made GC

[gamarra]

Hi all, I'd like share with you all a link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t-RrvAnqe0

The video show a home made:
FID
Oven
Electrometer
DAQ and LabView application

and a used 5890 inlet port,,,


I'd like contact with any company that need professional support in South America for his owns analytical instruments for engineers with more that 20 years in this game.

[chromatographer1]

Bravo !

Reminds me that the original TCD was made from the filament of a hand held flashlight.

You even used a capillary column ! Back in the day, we used copper tubing taken from a refrigerator.

best wishes,

ROdney George

[Peter Apps]

Hi Daniel

Excellent ! In a chromatography world where changing an inlet liner is major troubleshooting we need more of this radical engineering !

Peter

[Spuzzin]

In a chromatography world where changing an inlet liner is major troubleshooting we need more of this radical engineering !

Peter,

I thought this level cynicism on prevailed at my current company where the newer analysts are not expected to touch the instruments beyond sticking samples in the autosampler tray. On one hand it's nice to see it's not just me with this point of view on the other, what is the chromatography world coming to ?

Rich

[gamarra]

Thank you all for yours word.


Peter, I'm steel working to reach a useful injector, you can see the
under construction version y the following image:
( I used SolidWorks to generate the GC parts, it's is really
easy to learn and powerful)






Spuzzin, I'd like end the first full working prototype in 6 months aprox.

here is a image of the under construction oven:

[Peter Apps]

Hi Daniel

Looks good, please keep us posted with progress.

Spuzzin - what the chromatography world is coming to is black box intruments with no operator intervention, standard methods downloaded direct from the internet and raw data fed direct to the regulators, part swapping services done only by the manufacturers and fed with samples prepared by robots. And devil take the poor suckers who want to do research.

Peter

[tom jupille]

Yes, Peter, but the benefit to the "appliance" is that it is accessible to and usable by a much wider range of people. Imagine what would happen if you had to completely understand Maxwell's equations in order to use a microwave oven!