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Written by László on 2025-01-08 at 12:47

The magic smoke came out of my magnet power supply. :(

And this thing weighs roughly 1.5 or even 2 spinal injuries...

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Written by László on 2025-01-08 at 16:18

We have another one, which is probably 40 years old.

Yes, I'm sure we'll just hook it up and it'll work fine!

And then we realized that the connectors on the output side are mechanically incompatible...

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Written by László on 2025-01-08 at 16:28

"Safety shmafety!"

or

"Why don't we just use the big-ass leads of the superconducting magnet that we no longer operate?"

I'm amazed that I have good ideas sometimes. And not just idiotic ones presented as jokes.

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Written by László on 2025-01-08 at 16:44

Things just kept escalating. A simple "Can we measure in field?" turned into us deconstructing the entire setup. The jury-rigged power supply did work, but when we tried to wind in the pole shoes, it was rather difficult. And then the magnet just ejected a rod out its bore.

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Written by László on 2025-01-08 at 17:01

When I tell people I have a PhD and work in a lab, they imagine a guy in a white lab coat in a clean & tidy environment.

In reality, it's hoodies and oil-stained jeans, leaking vacuum pumps, popping capacitors, and me hacking away at 40-year-old, crusty grease that mechanically prevents science from happening.

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Written by László on 2025-01-08 at 17:37

At the end of the day, we decided to leave it for tomorrow. I'm sure the WD-40 just needs some time to penetrate.

The one thing I'm proud of: I immediately put on my work gloves, because I knew that every "Let's give it a quick try!"-job will turn into hand-wrecking. And it indeed prevented two unexpectedly jabby objects from getting through to my skin. Hand injuries are just ridiculously irritating...

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