Date: Sat, 26 Mar 94 09:59:51 CST
Subject: Re: CSIRO-Trace, visits
From: johnf@ice

Bruce:

OK. I don't think I'll be able to get away. I forwarded your latest
message to Ian Steele so if he's around and reading his mail, he should
get your itinerary.

Yes, I am quite new to the SX50! or SX51, as it is informally called
by the engineers -- we were, effectively, Cameca's beta test site for
their new sub-micron stage -- something we had not contracted for!
I have certainly received my baptism under fire, if you will. When I read
in your newsletter about the first SX50 lab (Finland?), I knew what that
was all about!!

I have had to excellent engineers as instructors:
Jean-Michel Peneau and Christian Haussaire (sp?) -- as teachers (first,
original installation Aug-Sept 9,; second in Jan 94, to repair and adjust
SX51 stage [if you see them in Paris, say hello to them and Claude Conty
for me]. Also I have had much valuable assistance from two U.S. engineers
(Sam Pindrys and Steffan Pascu), with one visit from each plus hours of
over the phone instruction for repair and debugging. It has been quite
a steep learning curve, particularly as I have pushed all of them to show
ME how to do things so that I will know for the future.

I read the newsletters last nite and this AM. Good stuff! Sounds
like many of your suggestions have been implemented in the version of
the hard/software we see in front of us. I don't know if you're up for
collaborating in a new version of the newsletter, but we'd (I'd) certainly
be interested in doing so, as there's no sense in having something just
for U.S./Canada users. Making it online would seem to cut down some of
the work, and could/should make it easier for users to participate. We
should talk more when you have time.

I assume you will not mind if I xerox and distribute the newsletters to
at least one other SX50 lab director (Ed Vicenzi, Princeton)? He and I
have communicated quite a bit (he's written up at least one manual). Also,
sometime, some of us talked about making some training videos to help each
other with some maintanence, repairs etc (filament change, detector window
replacement, etc).


John


John Fournelle
Electron Microprobe Lab Internet:johnf@geology.wisc.edu
Dept of Geology & Geophysics Telephone: (608) 262-7964
University of Wisconsin Fax: (608) 262-0693
1215 West Dayton Street Amateur radio: WA3BTA/9
Madison, WI 53706 (14.030, 21.030 mHz)