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jeffrey.kissel@LIGO.ORG - posted 20:44, Sunday 19 June 2011 (944)
MTS 01 Solid Stack Assembly
B. Bland, J. Kissel, T. Sadecki

We put up the remainder of the Solid Stack today on Mechanical Test Stand 01 (MTS01). The rest of the assembly went about as smoothly as yesterday:
- The remainder of the parts that we drilled out yesterday fit reasonably well (as opposed to not at all), but in particular we could only get 4 of 8 bolts into the middle (of 5) Table I-Beam [D050162]. We're pretty sure this is a flaw of the hole pattern in the Lower I-Beam [D050158] design, not the Table I-Beams.
- Other pieces that we didn't fit check yesterday also had holes that just didn't align at all with their mating holes, specifically the angle brackets (Upper Angle [D050165] to the Bridge Wall [D050164], and Short Left and Right Angle [D050167 and D050166] to the same Bridge Wall). We drilled out the Upper Angle bracket, but we intend to just re-make the Short Angle brackets custom, after measuring the hole mismatch.

For now, the Solid Stack is in secure enough shape that we can mount H2SUSITMY (QUAD02) to it tomorrow.

If you haven't gathered already, the Solid Stack drawing package [D0902057] needs some serious cross-checking and red-lining if we're to build any more of these things. A Solid Works model would probably help.

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