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Smith Mareens

@smith-er-eens

Jack of all trades, master of none. Outdoors volunteer, business owner, positivity only.

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Smith Mareens
@smith-er-eens Jan 11, 2023, 2:42 PM UTC

Troubleshooting Basics

Gas chromatographs are used in laboratories to identify compounds and measure their concentrations. These instruments can often get broken and cause a lot of frustration for the scientists that depen…

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Smith Mareens
@smith-er-eens Jan 3, 2023, 9:15 PM UTC

Why Does Your Service Person Double Check Your Work?

## You've performed most of the troubleshooting, but the service person does it again, anyway... Have you ever had a leak in your GCMS and you couldn't tell where it was coming from? You tightened, r…

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Smith Mareens
@smith-er-eens Jan 2, 2023, 6:37 PM UTC

Complimentary Consulting

I've been spending all my time building my business, and homeschooling. The last several months have been a blur! My laboratory consulting business has r Done well and will continue growing, but I wa…

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Smith Mareens
@smith-er-eens Nov 23, 2022, 2:48 PM UTC

Died Suddenly

https://diedsuddenly.info/ For anyone not able to find the documentary, here are two direct links.

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Smith Mareens
@smith-er-eens Oct 20, 2022, 1:07 PM UTC

Podcast or "Labcast"?

This is a first of many labcasts we will be dropping. It's posted to LinkedIn at the moment, but I hope to drop the content direct to this platform, moving forward. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cab…

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Smith Mareens
@smith-er-eens Oct 1, 2022, 8:22 PM UTC

Catching Up 😵‍💫

Its been weeks since I've posted much anywhere, let alone here. I've been busy with numerous projects and other responsibilities. I finalized the creation of my S Corp. I am now a distributor for a c…

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Smith Mareens
@smith-er-eens Oct 1, 2022, 8:11 PM UTC

It took 6 weeks to fix this system...

Sometimes service visits go in a direction you couldn't have prepared for. This one was a great example of that. It impossible to know when you will get the service repair from hell, but only years o…

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Smith Mareens
@smith-er-eens Sep 4, 2022, 11:21 AM UTC

Cleaning a PerkinElmer GCMS Source

You tend to see tons of photos, videos and blogs pertaining Agilent instruments, buy not very much of other OEMs. I'm going to try to change that up. Today I'm adding some images and information abou…

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Smith Mareens
@smith-er-eens Aug 20, 2022, 7:57 PM UTC

Mine Kill (Falls) State Park

Mine Kill Falls is an amazing (barely) off the road waterfall, partially viewable from a bridge above. To gain the full picture you have to walk the trails, as it is situated inside a small chasm tha…

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Smith Mareens
@smith-er-eens Aug 15, 2022, 6:11 PM UTC

Is Your Lab Running Out Of Space?

I'd love to say that every lab I go to is newly built and designed by an expert, but this is almost never the case. I say "almost never" because I have seen and also been involved in designing new la…

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