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-Imperial College donated a Flow Cytometer. The unit is too large to be stored in the biolab (1.8m X 0.8m = 1.44 square meters of floor space)
+Imperial College donated a Flow Cytometer. It was donated as working, but in need of repair. However there is a lot of damage due to corrosion, which might be impossible to fix for a reasonable amount of time and money.
-'''Status:''' We are going to dismantle it for parts.
+The unit is too large to be stored in the biolab (1.8m X 0.8m = 1.44 square meters of floor space) and was previously moved to storage while we worked on it.
+'''Status:''' It's sustained damage to the sampling area, and we are missing some bits. Repairing is likely to be very $$$, so we are planning to dismantle it and use the optics and lasers on other projects.
 There are a number of large external units some of which are for providing power and cooling to the large laser.
 There is a good description of how a flow cytometer works here; http://media.invitrogen.com.edgesuite.net/tutorials/4Intro_Flow/player.html
-It was donated as working, but in need of repair. There is quite a lot of damage due to corrosion, and to the sampling area which we are working on.
 The machine requires a dust free environment due to it's use of lasers and optics.