Moving confocal system
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Our university will be doing a renovation of the floor where our confocal/2p system (Zeiss LSM510 META NLO)
is located. This means that the confocal system has to be moved (within the same building).
Please share your experience on moving (i.e. disassembling/reassembling/adjusting) a working confocal system
and potential caveats/damages related to this procedure.
Zeiss/Coherent provided quotes for disassembling/reassembling/adjusting that total to ~$20k. What bothers me most
is that the quotes do not include coverage of any broken parts, and the mechanical move of the blocks/parts
is single university's responsibility. Under such conditions if there are any problems in adjusting the reassembled
system they will unavoidably be blamed on us, and we will have to pay extra for the "broken" parts.
I appreciate sharing any relevant experience/info and/or advocating against the move.
Thank you,
Arvydas
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Arvydas Matiukas, Ph.D.
Director of Confocal&Two-Photon Imaging Core Facility Department of Pharmacology SUNY Upstate Medical University 766 Irving Ave., WH 3159 Syracuse, NY 13210 tel.: 315-464-7997 fax: 315-464-8014 email: [hidden email] |
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If both of your systems are covered additionally by service contracts you can insist that after the move they need to align the system back to its full function. If not you have to take extra precaution to move them, but pay them the moving cost which may also include resetting the system. We have once moved our confocal (Biorad) by carrying the scan head and lasers by hand back of a van and moving the scope in a softwheeled cart on smooth concrete side walks. Shiv At 12:19 PM 2/29/2008, you wrote: Our university will be doing a renovation of the floor where our confocal/2p system (Zeiss LSM510 META NLO) Microscopy Facility Manager 8, Institute for Genomic Biology University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1206 West Gregory Dr. Urbana, IL 61801 USA Office: 217.333.1214 Fax: 217.244.2496 [hidden email] http://core.igb.uiuc.edu |
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In reply to this post by Arvydas Matiukas
We are in the middle of a major lab move with several confocals. Your mileage may vary, but we just break the systems down into their largest parts and carefully move them ourselves. Once they are roughly back in place then call the tech in to do the alignment. If your ultrafast laser is a one-box (no pump laser box next to it) then you won't even need to realign the laser, just the microscope.
On a related note, to give us more mobility in the future we have a small optical bench from TMC which has deployable wheels. It's a fully functional air table with the wheels retracted, but when they are deployed it (just) fits through standard doorways and can be rolled pretty much anywhere without disturbing its payload. They have a number of different sizes of frame and table top to suit your doors and payload requirements. Craig On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 11:19 AM, Arvydas Matiukas <[hidden email]> wrote:
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