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On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 8:23 AM, Lemasters, John J. <
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> Because sprinkler heads are mandatory, we have put beach umbrellas over
> our microscopes. I have a colleague who lost several high end systems when
> a water line broke on a floor above his facility some years ago. The
> sprinkler heads are not the only thing to worry about.
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> Hi, Rosemary,
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> I fought (and lost) with the Fire Marshall and building Engineers
> when they built my lab. I designed the lab from ground up, and was never
> asked about sprinklers. There are no other buildings on our campus with
> sprinklers, and I was not informed that sprinklers were going to be
> installed in my labs when they were being built, nor was I asked where I
> wanted the heads installed. When I walked in the door to see the labs (I
> was actually forbidden for a month to walk through the labs during
> construction) I discovered a sprinkler head directly above the spot where
> my TEM column would sit! After much wrangling (and griping and belly-aching
> on the part of engineers and construction crew), I was at least able to
> insist that the head be moved to a side wall in the room, away from the
> microscope column, so that if the head ever leaks, it will not drip on the
> column, and so, if it is ever bumped, we would have a prayer of a chance to
> cover the thing and protect the microscope. I'd like to build a box to
> cover the head, but we get inspections from time to time, or, more ideally,
> hire an outside plumber to cut the line. I have sprinklers in the rest of
> the lab, and fire extinguishers right outside the door. I don't need a
> sprinkler head in my TEM room! I also have a head in my SEM room, but it's
> further away from my scope. I could probably throw a plastic dropcloth on
> that scope and save it. (As a side note, this same construction crew
> installed two chilled water spigots UNDER my wall-mounted desk, in the knee
> space, in my office, and installed the lock to my TEM room on the INSIDE of
> the door. They weren't the brightest lightbulbs in the boxes!)
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> Ed
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> Hi all, (sorry for cross-posting)
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> I know this has been discussed before, just wondered if there were any new
> thoughts. We're moving twice, first into a refurbished basement, second
> time into a new building. The basement has a sprinkler system in case of
> fire, unlike our current building which just has alarms (it's a single
> storey brick building). I imagine the new building will have some sort of
> sprinkler system too.
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> What precautions, if any, do people take to protect against the unlikely
> showering of your confocal or EM?
> Are there any relatively simple alternatives? (One alternative is to have
> fire-doors and walls for each room but that is prohibitive.)
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> thanks much,
> Rosemary
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