Dear All,
Thank you for the rapid responses! I believe the original magnet installation predates even my predecessor at UO, so no one knew heavy it was until you all weighed in.
No manual has emerged, but I have gotten weights from people who’ve moved the same magnet— it’s something like ~9500 lbs. Mark Conradi from WUSTL gave useful details about their move of the magnet, which I’ll paste here for future information (in case someone else needs to move a similarly large system).
"To move the magnet across floors, we used a pair of pallet jacks, each rated at 5000 pounds. We put jack A into the magnet pallet far enough that it was more than 50% into the magnet. Pallet jack B was installed on the other side and was thus used to pick up the other half of the magnet. We jacked the two up together. Then, we dropped jack B so jack A was **holding** (but not lifting) the entire weight. It was a more manueverable package that way and we could get it through the door etc. So, you need two pallet jacks to lift the load but only one to carry the load."
Best,
Nanette
Nanette Jarenwattananon, PhD
Director, CAMCOR NMR Facility
University of Oregon
nmr.uoregon.edu
(541) 346-4605 office
(971) 808-0203 cell
> On Apr 29, 2019, at 23:05, Nanette Jarenwattananon <njaren_at_uoregon.edu> wrote:
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> Hi All,
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> Does anyone have a manual for a Varian XL-100 electromagnet? (Or happens to know the weight?)
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> We need to move a Varian XL-100 electromagnet from the top floor of a building to the basement of another, and we’d like to do it without breaking any elevators, cranes, floors, magnets etc. Apparently no one knows how the magnet was originally brought in during the 1970s, but the rumor is that its predecessor toppled the crane, smashed the floor and ruined the magnet during installation.
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> Thanks,
> Nanette
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> Nanette Jarenwattananon, PhD
> Director, CAMCOR NMR Facility
> University of Oregon nmr.uoregon.edu
> (541) 346-4605 office
> (971) 808-0203 cell
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