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We've always made it a practice to have ... and USE the plastic
covers on our light microscopes. There have been too many times when
MME is currently scheduling courses for now and through Fall 2014.
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>I'm with John on this; it's not so much the sprinklers in your imaging room
>so much as the odds of a flood coming in from the floors above.
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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!)
> >
> > Ed
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> > Hi all, (sorry for cross-posting)
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.)
> >
> > thanks much,
> > Rosemary
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