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2011/02/18

1100 Fill N2 cold traps full.
1700 Stop cryocleaning mixture. Pump mixture into dump.
1730 Open valve 8 to pump mixture out of cold traps.
1800 Extract cold traps from LN2 bath, and warm to room temperature.
P2 rises to 22 mbar. No saturation: it looks like both cold traps are clean.
G2 reads 654 mbar. Is this just variation, or does it mean the mixture is cleaner?
1845 Expose cold traps to heat gun for 1 hour.
P2 rises to 35 mbar. Good enough: no further cleaning should be required.
2100 Place cold traps back in LN2 bath and leave to cool.
Fill N2 cold trap full.
2200 Stop pumping on cold traps and introduce mixture.
Start cryocleaning overnight.