Logan lathe, Ashina drill press and South Bend lathe

This is the home page for the workshop in the Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, UBC, 2211 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, Canada V6T 2B5.

• Shop safety.
  
• Shop working arrangements: see FAQ.
  

Eaddress: peasthope at shaw dot ca .
Preferred VoIP: sip:peasthope at ekiga.net . Reference, VoIP, SIP, Ekiga. In a commercial OS, Gizmo should work.
Deprecated VoIP: skype:peasthope . Reference, Skype.
New telephone: 778 588 6232.
Old telephone: 360 450 2132.
Departmental fax: 604 822 7635.

• Information: computers and the 'net have allowed a gross proliferation of it. I can not read more than about 2 pages of plain text per author*month.
  
• Knowledge: welcome.
  
• Message format: Plain text preferred. *.tex or *.html if format is necessary. *.doc is inconvenient; *.rtf is better.
  
• Spam: The old GulfNet address was out of commission for six days in late September of 2003 because of a deluge of spam. More information is in the eaddress FAQ.
  

Pertinent quotations

"... he [the human] often forgets the true nature of his planet and the long vistas of its history, in which the existence of the race of men has occupied a mere moment of time.", Rachel L. Carson, The Sea Around Us, 1950.

"Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry." Richard P. Feynman, conclusion of first Messenger Lecture, Cornell University, 1964.

Equipment

Sterilizer

Rules for Vacuum Pump Use and Maintenance, University of Florida

The Department contains an extensive collection of equipment and the shop attempts to provide repair services. Before buying equipment you are welcome and encouraged to check what is available in the shop and in the departmental storage room. This is a sample list; the equipment list is more complete.

Adhesive backed translucent film for windows
Centrifugal pumps
Centrifuges
Computers and computer parts
Diaphram pumps
Drying Ovens
Electronic components
Fasteners
Hotplates
Stirring machines
Syringe pumps
Vacuum pumps

Certain special equipment needed for research and teaching is designed and built. Acrylic vessels to contain and preserve specimens are fabricated for our museum. Pathweb and several other museums are accessible to the public.

Documents for Electronic Equipment

Web Pages

These Web pages originated in 2001 using the HTML module in Oberon running on a 80486-DX PC. 2004-08-20 the hardware was upgraded to a salvaged Pentium 1. The machines which maintain and serve the Web pages have negligible value in the marketplace.

Miscellaneous Links

• Equipment & Material for Sale
• Surplus Equipment & Material; Free to a Good Home

• The Hewlett Packard LaserJet III
• Vacuum Pumps
• The compressor for our -20 C walk-in freezer in July of 2004.
  Note the thick ice on the accumulator to the right of the compressor. After the accumulator was insulated and other insulation was improved, this picture was taken. Ice remained on the EPR, elbows, along the side of the suction line and around the base of the accumulator. Eventually the source of the water was found to be a few pinholes in a 1/2" copper water line. The copper corroded very slowly and defect was not easy to spot.
• Sibley Valve. Springs are Century Spring Corp., Los Angles, Ca., C-556, 5/16" x 5/8" x .030", utility compression.
• Welch Model R 1402 vacuum pump.
• World Community Grid.
• Example computer systems.
• Networks.
• Notes concerning Debian Linux 3.0.
• Notes concerning ETH Aos = Bluebottle, of March 12, 2004.
• Notes concerning ETH Oberon / PC Native 05.01.2003.
• Repair of a femur with stainless steel. Why?