{"id":219,"date":"2011-09-25T18:43:07","date_gmt":"2011-09-25T23:43:07","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-06-02T10:41:06","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T15:41:06","slug":"what-to-do-with-an-old-lithography-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/?p=219","title":{"rendered":"What to do with an old lithography tool?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So you&#8217;ve got an old lithography tool hanging around.  It doesn&#8217;t have the resolution (or any other spec) needed for production of pretty much anything that anyone wants to make.  What can you do with it?<\/p>\n<p>One option is to sell it to a Hollywood prop house.  Apparently, that is what someone did with an old Cobilt mask aligner (at least, I think it is a Cobilt).  It has probably shown up in several movies, but the one I saw it in was Silent Running, a good but not great sci-fi movie from 1972.  Here are some shots from the movie.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/20110925-Silent-Running1.jpg\" width=\"530\" height=\"294\" title=\"Cobilt Aligner in Silent Running\" alt=\"Cobilt Aligner in Silent Running\" \/><br \/>Bruce Dern as Freeman Lowell limping past the mask aligner after murdering his crewmates.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/20110925-Silent-Running2.jpg\" width=\"530\" height=\"294\" title=\"Cobilt Aligner in Silent Running\" alt=\"Cobilt Aligner in Silent Running\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/20110925-Silent-Running3.jpg\" width=\"530\" height=\"294\" title=\"Cobilt Aligner in Silent Running\" alt=\"Cobilt Aligner in Silent Running\" \/><br \/>Lowell using the mask aligner to reprogram the company droids to answer to him.<\/p>\n<p>You can&#8217;t keep a good lithography tool down, not if you have a little imagination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So you&#8217;ve got an old lithography tool hanging around. It doesn&#8217;t have the resolution (or any other spec) needed for production of pretty much anything that anyone wants to make. What can you do with it? One option is to sell it to a Hollywood prop house. Apparently, that is what someone did with an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microlithography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":383,"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions\/383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}