I've been talking about it for about 5 years, and am going to pull the trigger on a thermo lcq advantage, just working out the logistics. stay tuned..

WOOOOOOOOO!


WOOOOOOOOO!


WOOOOOOOOO!

very stoked. contacted my mentor to get advice, he said go for it. I trained on a similar instrument.

Is it a personal machine? Or one for work?

personal. going to start a business.
my house has solar panels, the sun will power the business.

Congrats! Hooray for exact chemistry.

thanks.

this is going to consume much of my free time, between supercritical fluid extractions

Be sure to tell us more

I am jealous! I can't imagine that was cheap! Was it brand new? I look through the catalogues for equipment I'd like and always groan at the prices. I'm never going to get that lab of my dreams, Sasha Shulgin style

May you have much fun with it

thanks, I sure will.
it's about 14 years old, from a university. i'm dropping around $5K, about the price of a modest used car from a private owner.
new mass specs are around the price of a new bentley.

Congrats. That sounds pretty wicked.

Yes sounds impressive (not my area of knowledge though), I hope it has not too large operating costs.

So what address can I post the acacia specimens I find?

soon.

I paid in full today, should arrive here at my work by next week (shipping was $100 cheaper to a commercial business).
I need to buy tuning calibrators and reserpine, and argon, nitrogen, and helium cylinders.

once I'm all set up, I estimate pricing to be ~0.05 BTC per test.

Sounds reasonable.

In NA?

yes.

I've been corresponding with the mass spec guru who trained me, to ask specifics on the setup.
It looks like operation/maintenance costs won't be too high after all. I do need to rent ultrahigh purity helium, which will last forever, and nitrogen, no argon. mobile phase will be 0.1% formic acid, prepared from 18.2 MΩ·cm water obtained from a
purifier at work. with a flow rate of 5uL/min, a 1mL syringe may last about 300 min. I ordered a 25mL syringe.

Maybe think about accepting cash in Monero, or at least use it, when cashing out. Not sure if the BTC tumblers are that LEO-proof.

ok..
it shipped out today.
*rubs hands*

so excited. this machine is a slightly newer version of the one I trained on, doing tests on harmala extracts, psilocybin, and brach samples. Going to follow similar methods, using fused silica capillary and PEEK tubing. Tested my syringe pump with my new hamilton fitted with a syringe filter, coupled to 20 micron i.d. capillary, and it runs like a champ. All I need now is the gas cylinders, and standard and calibration solution.

after a 5 year hiatus, I still remember everything. just like riding a very technical bike.

Hooray for citizen science! I'm tempted to accumulate some bio lab wear myself over time. But those prices! I'm surprised you could get a mass spec for 5k, that seems like a nice deal. So what types of samples are you interested in looking at?

Edit: Nevermind, i see now. Looking forward to it!