(Cheryl, Corey, Jodi, Justin)

There were ambitious thoughts of trying to get the TMS mounted on the ISI this week, but even with tons of people, I don't think it would have happened (unless we worked into the wee hours on a lonely Friday night). 

Where we're at:  The TMS was roughly completed over a week ago.  It was then handed over to Arnaud (Mr. SUS) and he ran transfer functions to assess the mechanical functionality of this newly-assembled TMS.  Over the day/days he had it, he deemed it good to go---meaning it was good to decouple the ISC Table/Telescope Assy from the Upper Mass & move both assemblies to the ISI in the VEA on the Test Stand.

So today, with a limited crew steps were taken to get us closer to making The Big TMS Move next week.  This is how the storyline went today:

Decoupling the Table/Telescope From the Upper Intermediate Mass Assy (Corey, Justin)

With Justin at the controls of the Genie, and myself snaked into a position under the TMS, we took the load of the Table/Telescope off the Upper Mass, by lifting it with the Genie.  The wire clamps were then removed from the Table (decoupling these systems).  Some of the (8) bolts of these clamps were not easy to unscrew.  The first pair were the toughest.  Thoughts of galled bolts went through my cautious head, but we eventually got the first pair out (maybe that clamp slipped a bit when the assy was suspended and wedged the screws a little).  Either way, the other (6) bolts came out fine.  We then removed the Telescope, installed  the Tooling Feet on the Telescope and laid the whole assembly on the low Optics Table. 

Oh, it should be noted that we also decoupled the Vertical Safety Wire clamp from the Telescope; strung cables up higher and out of the way of the bottom of the Upper Mass, and removed the TMS Cables from the Table.

This all took roughly 2hrs.

Initial Round of TMS Cleaning

Jodi set me up with tools for cleaning:  pre-soaked Alpha wipes, & vacuum.  (we had de-ionizing gun, but I didn't get to that today)

With the Table/Telescope Assy removed, the first thing I inspected/cleaned was the bottom of the Upper Mass--this is because it won't be accessible when the Upper Mass is removed and on the "Transportation Cube".  We don't want to clean the whole thing while it's clamped to the Bosch Frame because we don't want to have to deal with shedding from loosening the dog clamps next week. 

We'll want to remove the Safety Support Beams next week--firstly because some errant screws were installed on this assembly, and secondly because it would be nice to put the lid on the SUS Transportation Cube when we move this guy---it'll keep the Upper Mass sealed & clean. 

I then moved to the Table/Telescope and cleaned them.  This was tough cuz I had to be careful not to bump any optic alignment and I also didn't want to contact any optic glass surfaces.  In other words, I basically focused on vacuuming the metal flat surfaces which were accessible.  I first cleaned the Table in sections.  I did this keeping all the optics covered with huge Alpha wipe blankets as much as possible as I went.  When I was done with the Table, I moved to the Telescope below.  Not much to do here.  I did notice particulates on the mirrors.  I removed some by carefully placing vacuum nozzle tip close to mirror surface.  We'll want to use the de-ionizing gun on these guys later.

Overall, just this cleaning took 3hrs.  And this couldn't really have been done in parallel (unless we had another vacuum).  And we still have cleaning to do (i.e. blowing off optics with deionizing gun).

TMS Protective Cover Installed

I assume this is to prevent bumping optics on the Table?  Either way, all optics were covered with Alpha Wipes.  Then I installed this Protective Cover on top of the Table.  Would be nice to have a Tyvec cover for this guy when it is moved.  A BSC Door is too small.  So maybe a HAM door or BSC Dome Flat?

On Monday's/Next Week's Menu

• I have the alignment template and we can install this on the ISI (this is a trivial/quick task).
• Find the 5-axis table and Transportation cube for the Upper Mass, and then move the Upper Mass from the TMS Lab to the ISI (but also remember to clean the upper part of it at some point).
• Move the Table/Telescope & attach to the Upper Mass on the Test Stand (this requires moving the whole thing inside a cleanroom (!) from the TMS Lab to the Test Stand. 
• Fun, fun, fun.