One of the toys I get to play with at work is a very nice, very large wide angle x-ray scattering (WAXS) unit. Today, the service engineer was supposed to come and do some preventative maintenance and check out an annoying, but non-critical problem we were seeing. Last week, I had some trouble with the automated calibration routine on it, so I asked the guy to check it out. Apparently, one of the control boards was dodgy, so now the machine is completely non-functional. Whee!
Posted by brent at 19:00