Users had issues, back at SOLEIL in France, with FedEx, DHL, UPS, French post... at many levels. I guess it just depends on luck, or bad luck in the present case. The worst case encountered so far though was Dewars lost in transit for a couple of weeks. Not to mention countries where import taxes are so expensive that it becomes cheaper to buy new Dewars...
Regards, Leo - Leonard Chavas - Synchrotron SOLEIL PROXIMA-1 L'Orme des Merisiers Saint-Aubin - BP 48 91192 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex France - Phone : +33 169 359 746 Mobile : +33 644 321 614 E-mail : leonard.cha...@synchrotron-soleil.fr - > On 27 Jun 2020, at 01:57, Minmin > <00003d6c0e364a92-dmarc-requ...@jiscmail.ac.uk> wrote: > > A collaborated group met the similar situation with FedEx before and they > switched to World courier afterwards. > > When your shipping dewar is no longer leaking of course, maybe you would like > to check out the following link below. According to our users, crystals > stored in the CombiPuck seem to get less or no ice up after shipment, > possibly because the vials inside the puck helped keep the LN2 temp well. > The 16pins puck base format of the CombiPuck is the same format as the > UniPuck. It is easy to switch from crystals stored in canes or any other > formats of the pucks to the CombiPuck. It is also easy to retrieve the > crystals from the CombiPuck back to the canes or any other pucks when needed. > > https://www.mitegen.com/product/combipuck-system/ > > > > On Thu, 25 Jun 2020 at 7:34, Jan Dohnalek > <dohnalek...@gmail.com> wrote: > We have the suspicion (after several heavy FEDEX failures) they just toss > them around ... then the neck easily breaks off. > That only explains everything we have seen with completely damaged samples, > lost, flying around the dewar etc ... > When trying to communicate seriously with FEDEX about these issues - they > even did not reply ... > > Jan > > > > On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 9:27 PM Patrick Loll <pjl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello community, > > We recently had a dry shipping dewar fail catastrophically (while en route to > the beam line, so, major trauma). I sent it to a company that specializes in > repair and refurbishing of cryogenic tanks, and they told me it has an > internal leak, and hence is not reparable. I was expecting that the valve had > failed, so the internal leak diagnosis came as a surprise. > > Has anyone else had a similar experience? Any ideas about how an internal > leak might come about? The dewar is (was) a Taylor/Wharton CX100, and it was > traveling in its bespoke shipping case. > > Thanks for any insights that might satisfy my curiosity and/or prevent future > mishaps of this sort. > > Cheers, > > Pat > > __________________________ > > Patrick J. Loll, PhD > Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology > Drexel University College of Medicine > Room 10-102 New College Building > 245 N. 15th St. > Philadelphia, PA 19102-1192 USA > > (215) 762-7706 > pj...@drexel.edu > > > To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 > > > > -- > Jan Dohnalek, Ph.D > Institute of Biotechnology > Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic > Biocev > Prumyslova 595 > 252 50 Vestec near Prague > Czech Republic > > Tel. +420 325 873 758 > > To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 > > > To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 > ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 This message was issued to members of www.jiscmail.ac.uk/CCP4BB, a mailing list hosted by www.jiscmail.ac.uk, terms & conditions are available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/
