Workshop (for mechanical repairs and technical equipment)
For questions, appointments, etc., contact the workshop manager Benjamin Rommel.
Building E
Image Credit: Britta Ernst
Workshop
Image Credit: Britta Ernst
Workshop
Image Credit: Britta Ernst
Material
Image Credit: Britta Ernst
In the Building E is the workshop: repairs, new productions, spare parts of equipment can be manufactured. The workshop is fully equipped with lathes, milling machines and drills. Limited are also sheet metal, brazing and electronic soldering possible. A small supply of material (brass, aluminum, steel and plastic) is available.
New production and repair of sample cups made of Teflon for geochemistry
Image Credit: Benjamin Rommel
Repair vane pump for sedimentary systems
Image Credit: Britta Ernst
Thin section and sample holder for the Electron microprobe (mineralogy)
Image Credit: Martina Grundmann
Customised sample holder for a microscope
Image Credit: Benjamin Rommel
Production of a fumigation system to prevent oxygen contamination
Image Credit: Benjamin Rommel
Specially manufactured chisel tool made of high-strength aluminium, for levering out coral cores
Image Credit: Benjamin Rommel
Production of a sample holder for the Zeiss scanning electron microscope (REM)
Image Credit: Benjamin Rommel
Experimental setup to visualise tectonic shifts
Image Credit: Benjamin Rommel
Nitrogen gassing system to prevent contamination by oxygen
Image Credit: Benjamin Rommel
Display case to visualise sediment slides on various coastal features for teaching purposes
Image Credit: Benjamin Rommel