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betsy.weaver@LIGO.ORG - posted 15:58, Friday 14 January 2011 (483)
FM1 build
Today, we loaded the weight adjusted (to 12,630g, nominal 12,621g) Top Mass into the Table cloth mounted in the structure.  Our first attempt at stringing the middle wires up from their attachment point on the Penultimate Mass to the Top Mass failed when we dropped one of the 4 top clamps causing a kink in the wire (recall these are long and unwieldy and get threaded through the structure, a very delicate 2 person task).  After disassembling the multi-segment set of wires again, we fixing the kinked one and re-threaded it.  We then leveled the Top Mass and hung the Pen and Test Mass.  We were in the middle of adjusting the 4 blade tip heights and lateral positions in the Top Mass when we accidentally broke a middle wire with a tool.  We have disassembled the wire segment again and fixed it, but stopped there for this week.  The learning curve continues on the BS type suspension triple.
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