HPD’s reputation based on precision

BOULDER — So a scientist walks into a bar and asks, “Hey, anyone know how to make an adiabatic demagnetization refrigerator cryostat?”

OK, maybe not in a bar, but it’s not uncommon for such a scene to play out in the offices at Boulder-based manufacturer High Precision Devices Inc. Often, said scientist would have in tow a hand-scrawled drawing of whatever complex instrument it is he would like constructed.

The sketches adorning walls and desks at High Precision Devices aren’t the grade-school artwork of employees’ kids. Rather, they’re the beginnings of what eventually become, say, an…