Re: Looking for a P-10 gas supplier

["M. Woo" <melissa@zelda.ehs.uiuc.edu>]

On Thu, 6 Aug 1998 11:14:26 -0500 (CDT), TOM_DIXIE wrote:

>One problem that I have had in the past is the coating of the inner surface
>of the detector with a mist of oil from bad gas.  If you continue to have
>the problem, you should consider removing the detector from its shield and
>using an alcohol based cleaner to carefully remove the oil from the inside
>of the detector.

We received a cylinder of P-10 gas once which was contaminated with
some fine particulate matter.  A filter on the line between the
cylinder and the counter would've saved us a lot of trouble.  It's
something to think about doing if you have a proportional counter.

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