dispatches from a basement laboratory

[kaberett]

The rust:



Additionally: bog mummy will actually stay up all day unpinned a week after last wash, and I am never using the middle hot plate again.

Comments

[booksarelife]

What’s wrong with the middle hot plate?

[kaberett]

Massive temperature gradient from back to front, rather than even temperature throughout, such that samples at the back had completely dried down but samples at the front took another hour to finish evaporating... once I'd moved them to the hot zone... and cranked the temperature up by ten degrees.

Which is just Very No and in future I will use one of the side plates that heats more evenly.

[booksarelife]

Ooh, yeah, that’s not good

[katzenfabrik]

Gaaaaaahhhhhhhhh

[kaberett]

it isn't a GOOD photo of how badly the paint is lifting but I do advocate clicking through and zooming for the Full Horror

[vass]

*waves at you and your vacuum leak*

[kaberett]

<3

[sporky_rat]

I can't even.

[kaberett]

m e t a l f r e e c l e a n l a b

[fyreharper]

That’s very impressive. Rust with no metal. However do the manage it?

[hilarita]

Didn't you say that about the hotplate like two years ago?

[kaberett]

I have never previously used the middle hot plate in this lab!

[hilarita]

Clearly all middle hot plates in all labs just suck! (Or hotplates in labs generally.)