Tears are the best solvent to get pump oil off the optics, hope that helps

The tutorials/demos that are packed with SIMION are a pretty good starting point. They have some examples of the lua code for RF and other time dependent fields. Pretty sure there's a simple quad demo that would be a good starting point for a trap

I met Michelle Heck at the plant pathology dept chili cook off when I was an undergrad and she was looking for a new student to learn to run her TSQ Vantage. Then I met her collaborator Jim Bruce when he gave a talk on campus a few months later and he offered me a summer job as a tech at UW

I am a mass spectrometrist only because I was fortunate enough to meet Michelle at a chili cook off in 2014

You can install on anything, the software docs have minimum hardware specs but they're pretty light . There is a correct order to install them in - usually foundation, xcal, tune.

Compute goes brrrrr

There is a common problem specifically on QE+ interfaced with Waters LCs that causes contact closures from the MS to get fired early that leads to weird things like runs getting closed out early. Can be fixed by configuring the LC to supply cc to the MS instead of vice versa.

The shiny side is only coated if you buy a non-stick foil? Shouldn't matter for normal foil, the shiny side is a manufacturing artifact because only one face touches the roller.