My name is Nick Kaplinsky and I am an associate professor of Biology at Swarthmore College. My lab works on understanding high temperature stress in plants.
This blog will document the deconstruction and subsequent reconstruction of used high end research equipment. The aim is to share what we learn and to encourage others to start building their own instrumentation. It’s lots of fun and sure beats troubleshooting PCR reactions.
Hi,
We’ve been slowly modifying an Illumina GAIIx here in Andrew Emili’s lab in Toronto.
Could you let me know which objective turret you used to mount the pair of objective lens please? (The one appearing near the bottom of this image: https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/Illumina+GAIIx+Teardown/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/IMG_3591.jpg)
Thanks,
Carl White
Hi Carl,
The turret came out of a Olympus U-D5BDREMC motorized turret. Olympus BD objective threading is the same as Mitutoyo objectives (M26 x 0.706 Threading).
Nick
Hey Nick, we’ve been working with hacked sequencers for awhile in the Greenleaf lab to do biochemical experiments. I wonder if you happen to know the exact fiber type, connectors and loss for the cor align fiber optic switch? We need to replace ours but don’t have this info.
Hi Eesha –
I don’t have those specifications as the switches don’t have standard SKUs on them. I’d contact CORALIGN and see if they’ll tell you.
Nick