[Tara, Koji, Evan]
Tara and Koji spent the better part of yesterday afternoon inserting the new cavity assembly into the vacuum chamber. In the process of putting the window back on the chamber, the old copper gasket may or may not have hit the inner surface of the window, so Koji performed a drag wipe. Tara and Koji then inspected the window under a high-power bulb, and I think the consensus is that there's no visible damage.
The chamber is currently pumping down. Unfortunately, there appears to be a small speck of something trapped between the window and chamber flanges, so there's a small gap on one side of the joint. We'll see if we can achieve high vacuum. |