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		<title>The New Quahog</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:14:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Stein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok, Quohog to some of you.  Big clamshell in any case.   Without hardly any encouragement from blog-reading fans, we decided to see if we could make an even less complicated, even easier to use little vacuum deposition tool for OLEDs (glove box integrated), general lab use,  and all the good things that thousands of CV-300, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cookevacuum.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2100548&amp;post=32&amp;subd=cookevacuum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Now it&#8217;s a depression, and that ain&#8217;t better vacuum</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 00:31:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK,  my forebodings of general distress and poverty have come to pass.   One reader called them &#8216;somber&#8217;, which is as good a word as any.  Our clever friends in the alternative energy (PV, organic devices, etc) fields are watching their startups fade away, and those that can, are going back to their academic day jobs.   [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cookevacuum.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2100548&amp;post=27&amp;subd=cookevacuum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thanksgiving Redux</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:27:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A year ago we posted news of how the research slowdown affected the work we were getting.  Our customers were largely out of budget, and holding.  Guess what?  The successful dismantling of the global economy by some of my more rapacious neighbors (yes, this is where the Wall Streeters live), has put everything on hold.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cookevacuum.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2100548&amp;post=23&amp;subd=cookevacuum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Elephant in the Classroom</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 18:47:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Stein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As part of our scattershot marketing effort, I was given the opportunity to teach EVERYTHING ABOUT VACUUM TECHNOLOGY  to a bunch of employees at a plant largely involved in metallurgical vacuum, that is furnaces and heat treatment.   I hadn&#8217;t been up against a blackboard or its equivalent in a long time, so this got me [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cookevacuum.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2100548&amp;post=19&amp;subd=cookevacuum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Save Your Pump Oil, Boys!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 19:42:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Stein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Users with only a few vacuum pumps, or those not in constant use, don&#8217;t think about pump oil very much.  On our small deposition systems, I&#8217;ve heard from customers about decades of running without an oil change.  However, oil gets dirty, changes chemically, and often just leaves the pump one way or the other.  We [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cookevacuum.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2100548&amp;post=18&amp;subd=cookevacuum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>OLED Masks, Mask holders and Cleaning</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Stein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We make OLED deposition systems, glovebox and otherwise.  Most are very simple and either deposit the organics or the interconnect.  Because of the fragility of the devices, patterning is sometimes done by deposition through stencil masks &#8211; that is, lithographic masks with holes, placed in proximity to the OLED substrate.  This ancient, low-resolution technique is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cookevacuum.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2100548&amp;post=17&amp;subd=cookevacuum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Death of Brooklyn Poly</title>
		<link>http://cookevacuum.wordpress.com/2008/04/07/the-death-of-brooklyn-poly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:07:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Stein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all know how badly technology is decaying in the US, and we also know how very little most people care about it. But you do, if you&#8217;ve got any reason at all to look at this blog. Here&#8217;s another road sign on the route to perdition: the demise of an historic technological university. The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cookevacuum.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2100548&amp;post=16&amp;subd=cookevacuum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The (renewed) Elephant in the Room</title>
		<link>http://cookevacuum.wordpress.com/2008/03/28/the-renewed-elephant-in-the-room/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:47:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Stein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here it is the end of March, and the capital equipment gloom continues for most of us. As the dollar worsens, and energy costs take on a new meaning, equipment budgets have been stuck in a new type of hibernation. Normally, our quotations to customers have not had a specific expiration date, but they do [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cookevacuum.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2100548&amp;post=15&amp;subd=cookevacuum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Recession- a Money Vacuum</title>
		<link>http://cookevacuum.wordpress.com/2008/02/10/recession-a-money-vacuum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2008 18:09:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Stein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our business is erratic at best. Because most of it is custom work, we never really know what&#8217;s the next job, and we have only the most vague &#8216;marketing&#8217; predictions about what&#8217;s hot in six months. What we do have, though, is a fairly predictable ratio of system quotes to booked jobs, and this ratio [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cookevacuum.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2100548&amp;post=14&amp;subd=cookevacuum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Elephant&#8217;s Contract</title>
		<link>http://cookevacuum.wordpress.com/2008/02/02/an-elephants-contract/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 17:38:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Stein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continuing our series on how to buy a piece of equipment, we touch on the dreary matter of contracts and specifications. We do this because we&#8217;ve got an interesting impossible purchasing situation going on. Customer wants the product, has money for the product, but we can&#8217;t do a deal, and while we futz around, their [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cookevacuum.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2100548&amp;post=13&amp;subd=cookevacuum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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