Gerardo M. Tyler G. Chris S.

With purge air at a dew point of -47?c~, the team decoupled HAM 8 from the mode cleaner tube. Using drawbars/turnbuckles, the bellows on the mode cleaner tube was compressed just enough to allow for both 60" shipping covers to be craned in place and installed with their respective hardware. C3 covers were then placed outside the hard cover on both the chamber and mode cleaner sides (not unlike the current config of the HAM7/8 joint). After a successful decoupling from the remained of the VE, we broke all footing bolts loose to prepare for future efforts to exercise the chamber from the grout below.