I  used a pair of tweezers to remove the stray fiber of first contact. As Koji predicted, this was rather dry and so it didn't have the usual elasticity, so while I was able to pull most of it off, there is a small spot remaining on the HR surface of the ETM. We will remove this with a fresh application of a small patch of FC.

I the meantime, I'm curious if this has actually fixed the suspension woes, so yet another round of freeswinging data collection is ongoing. From the first 5 mins, looks positive, I see 4 peaks around 1Hz !

Update 730pm: There are now four well-defined peaks around 1 Hz. Together with the Bounce and Roll modes, that makes six. The peak at 0.92 Hz, which I believe corresponds to the Yaw eigenmode, is significantly lower than the other three. I want to get some info about the input matrix but there was some NDS dropout and large segments of data aren't available using the python nds fetch method, so I am trying again, kicked ETMY at 1828 PDT. It may be that we could benefit from some adjustment of the OSEM positions, the coupling of bounce mode to LL is high. Also the SIDE/POS resonances aren't obviously deconvolved. The stray first contact has to be removed too. But overall I think it was a successful removal, and the suspension characteristics are more in line with what is "expected".