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.
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.
"... 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.
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.
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.
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