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NMR Facility - Chemistry Department

Surplus Equipment

Seeking new homes for surplus equipment

The UChicago Chemistry NMR Facility has a fair amount of equipment that is no longer compatible with our current equipment or research aims. We seek to direct it away from the e-waste stream and toward laboratories that can make good use of it. On this page, we post equipment that can be picked up for free by appointment with the facility manager.

Alternative channels:

To give these items greater visibility, we will post them on Rheaply and eBay.

  • Rheaply – we use this service to post items of general interest, like monitors, crates, furniture, etc. to a campus audience, and perhaps to greater Chicagoland. This will not include items with such specific technical requirements that we know is must be visible to a national or global technical community.
  • eBay – we use the channel when items are likely to need to be shipped, and when they are highly technical in nature and need a very large audience to locate the limited number of interested parties.

ALL SURPLUS EQUIPMENT IS DISTRIBUTED *AS IS*
!! NO GUARANTEES OF PERFORMANCE !!

CURRENTLY AVAILABLE:

NMR Probes

We have a number of probes for 5mm-diameter liquids/solution samples, and one for 7mm solids samples.

  • SOLIDS: Bruker 300 MHz widebore HXY MAS 7mm solids probe with VT control. Top-loading, includes transport tube. Includes four extra tuning modules. See folder “UChi1_300widebore_HXYprobe7mm” for photos. SN B0620/035.
  • LIQ: Bruker 300 MHz BBO, 5mm, manual tune, no gradient, no VT heater but dewar look OK – BONUS: adapter set for widebore magnet. See folder “UChi02_300Liq_BBO_WideboreAdapt_5mm_Manual” for photos. SN Z3150/0020.
  • LIQ: (Beautiful) Cryomagnetic Systems 500 MHz BBO, 10mm, manual tune (<< with long separate tuning rods – included! >>), VT seems OK. See folder “UChi03_500Liq_BBO_10mm_Manual_Cryomag” for photos. SN HR-50/94.
  • LIQ: Bruker 500 MHz 1H-only Z-grad 5mm probe with working (probably) VT control – glass insert is loose. Even if not fixed, good as prop for teaching probe architecture. See folder “UChi04_500liq_1Honly-Z_5mm_Manual-LooseInsert” for photos.SN Z8479/004.
  • LIQ: Cryomagnetic Systems 500 MHz 1H-only, no decouple, 5mm manual tune (requires separate long tuning drivers, which are missing), no gradient. See folder “UChi05_500Liq_1Honly_5mm_Manual_Cryomag” for photos. SN HR-44/7.
  • LIQ: Bruker 500 MHz BBI Z-grad 5mm probe with broken VT dewar. Even if not fixed, good as prop for teaching probe architecture. see folder “UChi06_500Liq_BBI-Z_5mm_Manual-brokenVT” for photos. SN Z8375/0008.
  • LIQ: Cryomagnetic Systems 400 MHz 19F w/ 1Hdec 10mm manual tune (requires separate long tuning drivers, which are missing), no gradient, VT seems OK. See folder “UChi07_400Liq_19F-1Hdec_10mm_Manual_Cryomag” for photos. SN HR-50/112.

Photo folders:

Bottom or Bruker solids probe, 300 megahertz, H-X-Y, widebore
Bruker 500 megahertz, 5mm liquids NMR probe, inverse broadband (BBI) with Z-gradient, with broken VT dewar
Bruker NMR 500 MHz liquids probe, 1H-only with Z-gradient; insert is loose
Bruker 300 megahertz, 5mm liquids NMR probe, broadband detect with 1H decouple, no Z-gradient, manual tuning, BONUS: adapters for widebore magnet
Cryomagnet Systems 500 megahertz NMR probe for 10mm liquids samples, BBO (WB="wideband", apparently) with 1H decouple, manual tuning (requires tuning rods that are included), no Z-gradient
Cryomagnet Systems 400 megahertz NMR probe for 10mm liquids samples, 19F detect with 1H decouple, manual tuning (but requires tuning rods that are missing), no Z-gradient
Cryomagnet Systems 500 megahertz NMR probe for 5mm liquids samples, 1H detect only, manual tuning (but requires tuning rods that are missing), no Z-gradient

Computers – SGI

We have a number of SGI computers and SGI accessories (keyboards, mics, graphics cards, and power supplies) that we need to distribute. Little is known about them individually except for model number and whether they have hard drives and memory. Good for parts. Those with hard drives may boot, but root and user accounts have unknown passwords.

  • SGI Indy #1 model #B006Y87: no hard drive, but there appears to be memory
  • SGI Indy #2 model #B006T150: has hard drive and appears to have memory (TAKEN)
  • SGI Indy #3 model #B006Y75: has hard drive and appears to have memory
  • SGI Indy #4 model #B006Y75: no hard drive, but there appears to be memory
  • SGI Indy #5 model #B006Y66: has hard drive and appears to have half of memory slots full
  • SGI Indy #6 model #B006T150: no hard drive, but there appears to be memory (TAKEN)
  • SGI Indy #7 model #B006Y66: has hard drive and appears to have memory
  • SGI Indy #8 model #B006: has two hard drives and appears to have memory
  • SGI O2 model #B014ANF175: difficult to get inside for inspection, broken case

Photos of SGI computers:

Image of SGI Indy computer, shown from perspective of upper right corner. Case is blue, textured, and styled after late-80's and early-90's fashion.
Image of SGI O2 computer, shown from pfront. Case is dark blue and rounded. Cosmetic damage to case is apparent
Stack of eight SGI Indy computers, some may work, all are good for parts.

SGI Accessories

We have quite a few accessories for the SGI workstations: keyboards, mice, graphics cards, network cards, etc. While we would love to have someone receive ALL of these items, we understand it would be more practical to distribute according to demand. Items in best condition will go first. After June 17, the rest will go to e-waste.

  • KEYBOARDS: all PS/2 connectors, model AT-101 (3 avail to start 2 available), RT6856T (8 avail to start)
  • MICE: all PS/2 connectors, 3-button, model 063-0009-001 (nicest, made by Logitech, 2 1 available), model 063-0009-001 (regular, 8 available), model 063-0001-001 (shorter, with 2 dimpled buttons, 4 available.
  • GRAPHICS CARDS for Indy: all with peculiar SGI/Sun connector DB13W3, model 030-8263-002 (3 avail), model 030-8131-005 (1 avail), model 030-8264-002 (1 avail)
  • DISPLAY/MONITOR CABLES: all with at least one SGI/Sun DB13W3 connector – DB13W3-to-DB13W3 (4 availble), DB13W3-to-VGA (3 avail.)
  • ETHERNET/NETWORK CARDS for Indy: all with serial-looking connector, NOT RJ45, model 030-0591-001 (2 avail)
  • POWER SUPPLIES for Indy: SGI part number 060-0008-001 (4 available).

Photo folders:

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