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janos.csizmazia@LIGO.ORG - posted 18:31, Monday 21 April 2025 - last comment - 08:10, Wednesday 23 April 2025(84042)
2025 April vent - VAC diary
4-21 (Monday) activities:

- The aux carts from the annuli of GV5 and HAM4 were valved out; after a little hesitation, both IPs turned over, so now all AIPs are in good shape, without external support
- The pumpdown of the corner continues, with the corner being at 1.51E-6 Torr, and HAM6 is at 1.49E-6 Torr. There is a ~17% increase in pumping speed relatively to the last pumpdown in 2024 August. The details will be summarized soon.
- The pressure in the soft-closed GV7's actuator was increased from 10 to 15 psig, in preparation of opening GV2 tomorrow
- The flanges of the recently installed HAM6 turbo and HAM6 gauge was leak checked, no leaks were found, with the background of <1.0E-10 He
- All the welding seams on the X-manifold have been leak checked, no leaks were found, with the background changing between 2.6-3.0E-10 He. The welds have been individually bagged, see attached pic
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corey.gray@LIGO.ORG - 08:10, Wednesday 23 April 2025 (84079)EPO

Tagging this unique photo for EPO since these sorts of leak checks (on welds) you don't see everyday.  :)