We carefully cut them in half with a slowly rotating diamond saw,
remove the spent Cr, clean them, and take them to a glassblower for
repair.  If you do several at a time, the cost for repair should be
low.  The repair is quite simple--the glass blower simply has to
chuck them up in the lathe and re-join the two halves.

They end up slightly shorter, but the high-temperature septa will
still seal them.  You can re-use a reactor 1-2 times this way, for a
total life of 2000-3000 injections per reactor.

>Don't know if anyone else has found another way to clean out the Finnigan H-
>Device reactors yet. Although not very elegant, the following physical
>procedure works.


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Dept. of Geology
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Brigham Young University
Provo. Utah  84602

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