Reports until 11:45, Friday 22 April 2016
LHO VE
kyle.ryan@LIGO.ORG - posted 11:45, Friday 22 April 2016 - last comment - 13:22, Friday 22 April 2016(26730)
HAM11/HAM12 leak hunting
Kyle, Gerardo 

0900 - 1100 hrs. local -> In and out of LVEA, used Main Crane to "fly" leak detector over YBM.  

Dissatisfied with the slow recovery of the HAM11/HAM12 annulus system, we decided to do some unscheduled (no work permit) helium leak testing -> We found a minor leak on a conflat which was mitigated by torquing the flange fasteners but were surprised to discover several very loose chamber flange bolts, i.e. we could visually see the bolt shanks between the flanges!  In total we found (4) adjacent bolts on the flange connecting HAM11 to the OMC adapter spool to be very loose and (9) adjacent flange bolts that we could spin easily with our fingers on the flange connecting HAM12/septum/HAM11 -> these were torqued using twentieth century "old school" wrenches after we were unable to find a cell phone app.  

There are (3) pump carts running in the LVEA over the weekend, (2) at HAM11/HAM12 and (1) on the SW corner of BSC4.
Comments related to this report
chandra.romel@LIGO.ORG - 13:22, Friday 22 April 2016 (26733)
Good catch! We visually inspected the CFFs on diagonal before pumping it down but did not physically touch each bolt.