I was paid a visit today by a couple of gentleman by the names of Jeff, Paul, Bill, Hama, and Makhfousse. I accompanied them during their visit until about 1:oo or so when they left.
The retrieval has to be pushed back to Wednesday/Thursday. 32 complete cages have arrived and are in need of cleaning due to all the oil more than likely used in their manufacture. 3 spiders however were made way too small and had to be retrofitted....which the blacksmith did today and we received them shortly before the end of the day. Today we cleaned/scrubbed the cages with Alconox and tap water. Tomorrow we will do the same for the spiders but also we'll do a quick solvent rinse of them since we have no oven.
We had a problem with PRC mix on the GC, mainly with dibutylchlorendate. After some discussion with Jeff Jenkins we think it may be degrading in the inlet. We are seeing consistently two peaks even when we shoot dibutylchlorendate singly. This second peak does not show up in any of our solvent or air injections. I have a few things to try tomorrow to get to heart of this problem.
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