access at college?

[xxrabid93]

Ok, so i am going off the college this fall. I have been recently considering getting a cascade or SS though. I have a dice pot currently, but dice is a pita for me to get, so i figure an SS or cascade would be much more convienent than making trips to get dice. But i have also been thinking about ln2. How easy do you think it will be for me to get access to ln2 at college? If i can get it easily, then the SS or cascade would be kind of wasted. If i can't get it, the SS or cacsade seems the way to go. I assume my major could make a difference in the access. I am planning to go into Industrial Engineering. And yes, i know i would have to buy a dewar for ln2 (and a new pot as my current pot wouldn't be good for ln2, barely any mass).

Thanks, rabid

[jeremyshaw]

Honestly... do what I did. Make a (more or less) "normal" WC closed loop, and let it sit for 4 years. You probably won't have too much time outside of summer... of course, I went out and bought parts for a mITX build around summer... (Via C3... good stuff back then :p). So I cannot really say I followed my own advice

[xxrabid93]

Well i have lots of benching stuff. All s775 stuff. I'm not specifically talking about my main rig, which is what i get you are talking about.

[[XC] gomeler]

I had enough free time while in college to bench. Biggest problem was money. LN2 completely depends on where you go to school. I went to school in Atlanta where LN2 is plentiful so I had no trouble getting 180L dewars delivered to the house I lived at.

[xxrabid93]

I was afraid of that gom; very locational. I am looking at mostly smaller schools, but the biggest would be Western Michigan (20k undergrad, 5k grad). Do you think size of school matters alot too, or moreso location?

[[XC] gomeler]

School size doesn't matter. Consumption by industrial processes is far more important. You need a high local consumption rate to increase volume and thereby drop price. In Atlanta we have a bunch of hospitals, research centers and metal working shops that use a gigantic quantity of LN2 and make bulk LN2 purchasing cheap. If you are out in the sticks where the weekly consumption is only a few hundred to thousand liters they could be trucking that in to the locations from a distance and dramatically increase cost.

For example where I get my LN2 they just fill off a ~50k liter dewar and fill a 180L dewar and let me fill off that. Other people I know have to order their 180L days in advance and have it trucked in from a regional depot.

[Q56_Monster]

Man, I'm glad there was no such thing as benching back when I went to school. We were on the cutting edge when 5.25in floppy's turned into 3.5in floppy's, lol!

I can just imagine that "just one more run" turning into an all nighter...with a major exam the next day!

I'd just wait until you get to school, rabid, and get a lay of the land.