Date: Sat, 29 Apr 95 07:38:11 CDT
Subject: SX50 list: rebuilt filaments; CL
From:
Status: OR

Mike Dorais (Indiana Univ) asks:

Do you or anyone out in SX land know a company that can retip SX50
filaments? There may be several companies that do this, if so, how do the
prices compare?

Mike Dorais
dorais@ucs.indiana.edu
Dept Geological Sciences
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN
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JohnF says: Ian Steele [steele@geo1.uchicago.edu--thats geo-one,not GEOL]
has a neat little "sx-50 parts source list" that lists handy sources of
some parts, that maybe he can post to the list - hint. To quote Ian:

SPI Supplies, PO Box 656, 569 East Gay St, West Chester PA 19381-0656
phone 800 242-4774 fax 215 436 5755
--They have a catalog of standard SEM supplies. They rebuild filaments for
SX50. The charge is about $230 [in 1993] when 20 bases are returned.
Specify
rebuild 5220RB, 4 mil wire, for CAMECA SX50 [end quote]

====>>> Anyone else out there know of any other rebuilders, and of 'track
record' of rebuilt filaments??

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For those interested in Cathodolumenscence:

The Spring Issue of the newsletter of the Society for Luminescent
Microscopy
and Spectroscopy [for info on membership in the SLMS, contact Kula Misra:
misra.rocks@yoda.gg.utk.edu] mentions that Ian Steele (Univ of Chicago) is
offering a "practical course in applied CL" using a variety of instruments
and techniques, to be held in mid June 1995 at the Univ of Chicago, at very
reasonable cost.

If interested contact Ian (email address above) as soon as possible