Reports until 08:30, Thursday 09 June 2011
X1 SEI
corey.gray@LIGO.ORG - posted 08:30, Thursday 09 June 2011 (900)
BSC Assembly Work

(Corey, Eric, Fabrice, Greg, Jim, Mitch, Sebestian)

BSCISI#1

All Sensors have been installed (that's for Stage 0->1 & 1->2).

The Trillium seismometers were received from LLO today, and were installed.  Additionally, the L4C's have also been installed.  We are currently waiting for cabling rushed from Caltech, so we can start hooking up everything and begin taking a look at the system.

Have been staging weights for loading the system, with the hopes of floating soon.

BSCISI#2

Helicoiling of the Optics Table was completed yesterday (kudos to Greg & Jeff G who did most of it--hopefully they didn't sacrifice their sanity with the task).  During this work the Jeff & Greg have come across some Q-tips which been broken off and stuck in Optics Table holes (basically, the Q-tips look like they were broken off and left in the holes---these Q-tips were wooden.  See attached photo).  A total of seven broken Q-tips were found.  (between Q-tips, moths, and aluminum oxide, the war against particles is daunting)

Continue to stage for this assembly and kit/gather all the parts needed.

Images attached to this report