Specimen Preparation: What you see here was a quarter of Amenex's metallographic preparation facility. Visible are the Buehler Minimet automatic specimen polisher, which is especially useful [still] for retaining good, sharp edges on the polished specimens and which produces scratch-free surfaces; and the four-stand final grinding station with gravity-fed cooling-water supply (to minimize off-hours floods). We also had a pair of lapping stations for diamond and alumina final polishes and one more abrasive wheel for rough grinding. Off site there is [still] a diamond cutoff wheel which can accommodate a wide range of specimen sizes for dicing large specimens and for wafering them. We once had the required chemicals to make up nearly all but the most virulent ASTM standard etching reagents, and we kept stocks of the common etchants that have indefinite storage lives. We had two mounting preses for encapsulation of specimens in one-inch or 1.25 inch diamter cylinders, and we routinely encapsulated delicate specimens in two-part epoxide thermosetting resin, using repeated evacuation and repressurization, to outgas both the resin and the specimen and to cause atmospheric pressure to aid in infiltrating the pores of the specimen.