sources of used equipment, Harvard surplus

[Bob Keyes]

This is an offshoot of the original UWashington (Steattle?) surplus thread.

If I had space...well, hopefully others can check out things on craigslist. Just out of curiousity, I searched for 'microscrope' and found a person selling a bunch of lab equipment including temperature and pH meters, microscopes, and glassware. That's on the boston craigslist. Another posting says: "We have about 30 lab fridges table top], under the counter, , freezers [to -80]-chest and upright, incubators [single and double stacked], casework, hoods, casework and laboratory analytical equipment." in Orange, mass. (not close to Boston...good for someone at Umass Amherst, perhaps).

Maybe I am stating the obvious, but the more common lab equipment doesn't seem to be in short supply. At least, not around here.

As promised, info on Harvard's surplus: 175 North Harvard St, Allston MA 02134 ("send it to Zoom").Open to all every Thursday 11-2. If necessary, contact person is rob_...@harvard.edu. Recycling newsletter at http://www.uos.harvard.edu/fmo/recycling/newsletter/
I have noticed that a lot of the more interesting stuff doesn't make it to the surplus center, at least as far as computers go (I haven't located the spot where biotech/chemistry stuff is stashed). Having a friend on the 'inside' might help you know where to look, and get you permission to be there & take it.

note: I got in deep trouble once at MIT for picking through the 'decommisioned' stuff because I wasn't affiliated with the University! Be careful as some scroungers are very territorial and mean! The same stuff I was looking at and denied ended up being offered for sale at the MIT flea market the next month...someone trying to make money went to the extra effort to stop my scavenging.

-Bob

p.s. sometimes I wish I had a good hackerspace, and a one-ton pickup truck with a lift-gate.

[Mackenzie Cowell]

Bob,

Are you local to boston?  If so, I'd love to meet up sometime, maybe go look for some stuff.

cheers,

Mac

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[Bob Keyes]

--- On Fri, 8/27/10, Mackenzie Cowell <m...@diybio.org> wrote:

From: Mackenzie Cowell <m...@diybio.org> Subject: Re: sources of used equipment, Harvard surplus To: diy...@googlegroups.com Date: Friday, August 27, 2010, 12:46 AM Bob, Are you local to boston?  If so, I'd love to meet up sometime, maybe go look for some stuff. cheers, Mac

Hi Mac...yes I am local to Boston. I go to Harvard Extension School, and lve in Malden. My girlfriend lives in Central Square, Cambridge so I spend a fair amount of time ove r there. Perhaps we can meet up  some time, what's you schedule like? I am out of town this weekend, and then hopfeully registering for classes next week but that shouldn't take long. Classes are in the evening. -Bob

[Dmitry Klimov]

Hi everybody!

I'm new in this group. Let me introduce myself.

My name is Dmitry Klimov. I'm CEO of a russian start-up company that
develops an optical microscope with 100X enhanced resolution. I'm
currently in Boston as a finalist of world's largest innovation
competition MassChallenge.

I was looking for information on surplus locations of Harvard, MIT and
other universities and stumbled upon a message (see bellow) which was
extremely helpful. I would be excited to visit the surplus centers of
local universities and see if there is any equipment that we could use
for our efforts -- there is nothing like that in Russia :(.
Specifically I'm interested in high-sensitivity video-cameras. Is
there any list of such equipment on the web? When and where should I
come to see and get any of it? Can anybody share any other advise on
where to get a camera of this class (keywords: EMCCD, ICCD, deep-
cooled, single-molecule detection).

Thank you very much in advance,

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On 26 авг, 13:25, Bob Keyes <keyes...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> This is an offshoot of the original UWashington (Steattle?) surplus thread.
>
> If I had space...well, hopefully others can check out things on craigslist. Just out of curiousity, I searched for 'microscrope' and found a person selling a bunch of lab equipment including temperature and pH meters, microscopes, and glassware. That's on the boston craigslist. Another posting says: "We have about 30 lab fridges table top], under the counter, , freezers [to -80]-chest and upright, incubators [single and double stacked], casework, hoods, casework and laboratory analytical equipment." in Orange, mass. (not close to Boston...good for someone at Umass Amherst, perhaps).
>
> Maybe I am stating the obvious, but the more common lab equipment doesn't seem to be in short supply. At least, not around here.
>

> As promised, info on Harvard's surplus: 175 North Harvard St, Allston MA 02134 ("send it to Zoom").Open to all every Thursday 11-2. If necessary, contact person is rob_go...@harvard.edu. Recycling newsletter athttp://www.uos.harvard.edu/fmo/recycling/newsletter/

[Nathan McCorkle]

Dmitry,

For CCDs, you can try CookeCorp.com but their products are in the
$10k-$50k USD range (not completely sure about that, but its
approximate)

There spectrometers that meet some of your 'keywords' such as
deep-cooled, but they can't do video or still images. The spectrometer
I am talking about is an Ocean Optics QE65000, which uses a Hamamatsu
back-thinned CCD, see here:
http://www.oceanoptics.com/technical/engineeringdocs.asp

-Nathan

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[d wright]

Be careful of export restrictions on senstive or dual use technologies.

[Dmitry A. Klimov]

Dear Nathan,

Thanks for the link.

Once again, I shall repeat: I'm interested in cheap equipment from
surplus or other sources. I know the manufacturers of this type of
cameras quite well, but the retail price is unafordable.

Thanks!

[Dmitry A. Klimov]

Hi,

Yes, I'm aware of these issues. Well I need to get started somewhere
at least, right? :)

[Bob Keyes]

Dmitry,
There is an amateur ("ham") radio "swapmeet", this morning from 9:00am until 1pm at MIT. Admission as a buyer costs $5.00. It's not just radio; there's lots of computer and scientific equipment present as well. If you are unable to attend today's event, there will be another in a month. For more information, see http://www.mitflea.com

I won't be there today, but most likely will be attending next month.

-Bob

--- On Sat, 9/18/10, Dmitry A. Klimov <nano...@gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Dmitry A. Klimov <nano...@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: sources of used equipment, Harvard surplus

[Dmitry A. Klimov]

Dear Bob,

Thanks for the info!
I received this letter too late, but hope I can get there next time.
Scheduled it into my calendar :)