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X1 SEI
fabrice.matichard@LIGO.ORG - posted 18:03, Thursday 09 June 2011 (907)
Two Stages Floating - Testing Starts
The two stages of the first BSC-ISI have been released and balanced. 

Stage 2 total mass is 235 lb under the 6240 lb nominal. So we'll use 550 lb of mass on the keel mass instead of 785 lb. I am going to communicate the number to SYS so they can adjust their models and balancing.

Stage 1 is 135 lb under nominal (out of 8250 lb total on the large blades), about -45lbs/corner, which is very good.

Thanks to all the team for all the efforts to make it possible to float the platform only 5 weeks after we started the assembly.

We now start the testing of Unit #1, and keep working on the assembly of Unit #2. 
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