March 18, 2020, to Present

(what I’ve been doing at NCNR while you’ve been away)

Donna Kalteyer
Since March of 2020, here’s what I’ve been doing:

I’ve continued to provide general Laboratory support, as well as helping 

our Post-Docs. 

1. Safety

2. Inventoried EVERYTHING

3. Maintenance on existing Lab equipment

4. Keeping all labs cleaned & stocked

5. Procurement of Equipment

6. Refrigerators and Freezers

7. Maintenance on SE equipment (BLCCRs and training on other equipment)

8. Special Projects 

9. Summary

I ‘ve also been working on:
Safety! (Thanks Polly McCarty)

Scheduling a replacement floor for A127 due to floated tiles

All labs have alphabetized Chemicals...
Most Labs now contain a Hot Plate, Roller/Mixer, Drybath, Vortexer, 

Sonicator, & Balance

For the start up in June of 2020, to reduce foot traffic, 

we added the same general equipment to all the E-wing 

labs
E113 Supply closet added at start up to reduce foot traffic
-inventoried

-created spreadsheet

-adding columns

-verifying names

-verifying part numbers for future
-Additional bulk 

supply items in 

Basement.

-inventoried, etc...
Procurement of 2 vacuum ovens:

VDL23, volatile safe 100C max and a new Yamato 300C

Thanks to Juselino for helping to set them up!
Milli-Q 7000 

Ultrapure 

water System 

is now in 

A121 and 

E134!

RFO helped 

prep 

preinstallation
-Scheduled 

maintenance

-met with technicians

-scheduled BRUCE 

time

-Juselino was a huge 

help!

Maintenance 

was done on 

the following 

equipment:
• Juselino added and connected a new 

chiller

• UV-Vis inspected pre-service contract

• Determined it needed new mirrors and 

alignment motors.

• Unit has been serviced and is now 

running and under contract

• DLS was inspected and found to need a 

software and hardware upgrade.

• DLS had no Dark Scan capabilities and was 

sent to Wyatt for repairs

• We had a Loaner DLS for 1 month Don Lopez 

helped with hook up

• Our DLS is back in operation and is running 

and under contract
All lab refrigerators & freezers have been defrosted and 

inventoried! (thanks to Liz Kelley and Susan Krueger!)

And the -80C freezer and 3 large fridges are now under service 

contract!
Rigaku Xray 

diffraction in E135 

was serviced on 

3/15/2020

Tanya Dax was a 

major coordinator 

with this process!
Annual and Basic 

Maintenance on 

BLCCRs

Completed

• Checked all cables, hoses, fittings

• Cleaned coils

• Cleaned cooling fins

• Flushed water system

• Refilled He as needed

• Cleaned or chased threads on heat shield

• Checked carts were safe for lifting

• 4 Temperature tests to verify PID values

• Worked on 9 CCRs
Training Cross Training

Crane Operator SAXsess and XRD filter changes 

as/ when needed

Approved Source User CCRs, Leak Detector, Vacuum 

bag sealer, starting on Glove 

Boxes and Gas loading
Special Project with Alan, NCNR Web Pages:
Special Project!

For Reflectometry

Desiccator boxes in A117

*now with individual pumps!
Special Project!

Titanium Sans Cell: 

The Saga Continues!

• Find cells

• Return all cells give to Cedric

• Cedric sends out for barcoding

• When back, Deep clean cells

• Inventory components,: 

o-rings, windows, screws

• Update spreadsheet
Summary

1. Safety!

2. Have almost everything inventoried and continue to update & improve!

3. Lab equipment has been calibrated and maintenance performed as 

required

4. All labs are cleaned, stocked, and waiting for your return!

5. Procurements

6. Fridges and freezers are now inventoried and CIMS labels on all nonsamples!

7. Performed Maintenance on SE equipment

8. Worked on cross-training within Sample Environment and will continue!

9. Special Projects 

Continued regular duties while doing these:
Thank you for 

watching!