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2011/02/17

0000 Pressure in P2 at 0.04 mbar. Switch off He-4 pump.
0015 Pressure in P2 rises to 0.07 mbar. The line has been evacuated.
0045 Cold traps are cool enough to place back into the LN2 bath.
0100 Fill N2 cold trap full.
Pressure in IVC is 0.34 mbar. Evacuate IVC overnight.
0230 Cryoclean mixture. Valve 6 open 13.6%.
Fill N2 cold trap full.
1125 Fill N2 cold trap full.
1225 Stop cryocleaning. Pump mixture into dump.
1455 Open valve 8 to pump mixture out of cold traps. Pressure of P1 rises from 0.012 mbar to 0.016 mbar.
1600 Pressure of P1 has dropped to 0.014 mbar; good enough. Extract cold traps from LN2 bath.
P2 rises slowly compared with yesterday, but still saturates. Mixture might still be dirty.
G1 rises as cold traps warm up. This is probably due to the leak in valve 12A.
G2 reads 672 mbar, 10 mbar higher than yesterday. The different readings may be due to variation in the measurement gauge. This has been seen before.
1630 Expose cold traps to heat gun.
1730 Pressure of G1 oscillates between 0.0 mbar and 1.0 mbar. Try opening valve 2 to pump out line, but G1 refuses to drop. This might be a result of the relatively narrow diameter of the tubes, and this impedance makes it difficult to evacuate the line.
1800 Place cold traps back in LN2 bath and leave to cool. Stop pumping on traps and close valve 2. G1 rises to 1.0-1.3 mbar.
1830 Fill N2 cold trap full. Wait for cold traps to reach 77 K.
2000 Cryoclean mixture overnight.