Jenne, Koji
Recent status of SOSs:
We completed one of the suspension (ITMY).
ITMX: 6 Magnets, standoffs, and guide rod glued / balance to be confirmed / needs to be baked
ITMY: 6 Magnets, standoffs, and guide rod glued / balance confirmed / needs to be baked
SRM: 6 Magnets, one standoff, and guide rod glued, / waiting for the release from the gluing fixture.
PRM: one standoff, and guide rod glued / waiting for the magnet gluing.
We think we solved all the problems for hanging the suspensions.
--- Magnet gluing fixture ---
- There is the two kinds of fixtures. Neither does work propery in the original form!
- The height of the side magnets should be finely adjusted by changing the teflon sheets beneath the optics in the fixture.
- Be aware of the polarity of the fixture in terms of the side magnets
- Wrongly glued magnets (and others) can be removed by a razor blade with some amount of acetone.
- The pickle picker frequently knocks the magnets down during the release. Don't s be down in the dumps too much.
--- Suspending the mirror ---
- The wire winches must be carefully attached to the suspension tower such that the wires are not streached during fastening the clamps.
- There are a couple variations of the drawings for SOS. The one we have has #4-40 for the earthquake stops at the bottom.
Zach and Mott made the EQ stops with the right size.
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