Hi TreeofLife,
I completely emphathise with you here! I can't even count the amount of time I must have wasted trying to get bits of equipment to work and searching for equipment that I need but isn't available in the lab, only for my supervisor to then change his mind and say to move onto another assay. What with that and having to optimise two new techniques in the last few months of funding, I am well and truly fed up of my lab! Hope you've had some better luck with this machine - how's it going now?
Tulip