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betsy.weaver@LIGO.ORG - posted 10:45, Thursday 25 October 2012 - last comment - 16:45, Thursday 25 October 2012(4524)
MC3 prisms soaking in acetone

Gerardo and I worked out a nice little dish setup such that the primary and secondary prisms on one side of the optic barrel could soak in acetone for a while today.  We used an SST dish lid and organic cotton rounds to sit the optic in a bath of acetone submerging both prisms.  With an all glass pipette, we will add acetone as needed over the next few mornings.  The evaporation rate in the setup is on the order of 10s of minutes, so needs far less babysitting than the setup needed when only removing one prism.

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betsy.weaver@LIGO.ORG - 16:45, Thursday 25 October 2012 (4528)

As of 3:30 (5+ hours into soaking) Gerardo reports that the prisms were still "solidly" stuck on the barrel.  He's left it soaking over night, although we expect evaporation to dry them back out again within ~a few hours.