Thermoplastic sedimentology.

Jan 20, 2009

I’m pretty sure our work with plastic media will never end. I’ll be 90 years old and still messing with the vagaries of color, cost, shape, density, and size. Though we’ve talked to a lot of sedimentologists, it just now occurred to me that...

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Our in house Em4 moves forward.

Dec 12, 2008

Jesse put the finishing touches on a new pumpcart for our in-house Emriver Em4. He’s done a great job on this one. It features remote control dye injectors, and we’ve spent a lot of time on making it very quiet, which it is. Most pumps are noisy....

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We host, build, ship, and design.

Nov 21, 2008

We have a lot going on now, and it’s all good. How about some pictures? Greg Wilkerson from SIUC brought a couple of his grad students by this week for a visit. Shipping an Emriver to Minnesota with our friends from Rodeway. A couple of very young researchers...

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The water pig squeals; my work published, sort of.

Nov 3, 2008

Taking a break from my incessant administrative and computer-based tasks, I worked on an old design for a small flume this week. I originally built a prototype last year that was, with some cruelty towards me, nicknamed the “water pig.” With a little...

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Media research with a microscope.

Oct 21, 2008

Once again we’re doing R&D on plastic media, this time analyzing color for the Emriver Em2 models. This one is tricky because the stuff is post-industrial recycled. We have to keep the cost down, and can’t pick the colors exactly, but must deal with...

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