It’s Wednesday the mods are asleep post centrifuge memes
Y’all, I have a story.
In my lab we have a number of centrifuges. All benches have at least one microfuge, and there’s small benchtop fuges for full-sized tubes scattered around the lab as well.
We’re also the only lab in the building with a pair of full-size ones, that you can use to spin down liter bottles and such. They’re the kind with exchangeable segments so you can spin four giant things or hundreds of small tubes.
One of them is a standard fixed centrifuge, the other is free-swinging.
But that wasn’t always the case.
The lab, apparently, used to have two fixed centrifuges there. Keep in mind that these things go fucking FAST. They’re also tens of thousands of dollars.
Well, apparently, one day a student forgot to balance one of them. They turned it on and walked away.
The thing started shaking and rattling almost immediately, and the student panicked and tried to turn it off, but it was too late. The central spinning mechanism was spinning so violently that it PUNCHED THROUGH THE OUTER UNIT and zipped out of the lab like a goddamn sonic-ass hedgehog in a hamster wheel. It went all the way down the hall and crashed into the reinforced glass door before stopping.
Needless to say, underclassmen aren’t allowed to handle those centrifuges anymore.
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