Wednesday

I woke up a bit late, but made it to work for quite possibly the most productive day yet. Matt, Nick, and I were making so much headway with the viscosity measurements on the Primacor that we just skipped lunch. Frank and I worked out the logistics of setting up the test, which basically means eliminating the many variables. We picked a temperature based on our findings from the DSC, picked a strain, picked a method (Dynamic Strain Sweep), and set off to cutting out samples that would fit the parallel plate rheometer's geometry perfectly. We didn't have a punch, so we used Birmingham's new prototyping machine to cut them out. Matt and Nick are the only people at Brum to have used it thus far, so it was lucky that they were there to help. Once we got the samples we did a few trial runs on the Primacor 3340 and ended up getting some valid data. We finished another 10 or so runs for the 3340, cleaned up the adhesive mess we had made and figured out how to export the data from the hard drive and into Excel. We will finish up the 3330 tomorrow.

That said I headed into town to try to find some snowboard wax based on the listings I found on the internet. I ended up being 0 for 3 and called it a day and got some dinner.