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2012/03/09

0015 Fill N2 cold trap full.
0940 Filled LN2 cold trap.
1500 Tower temperature has increased to 130 mK. Pressure in G1 is 81 mbar, pressure in G2 is 68 mbar. It appears to indicate that helium cold trap requires cleaning.
Close valves 6 & 13a on IGH to stop circulation (valve 12a is leaky, so remove mixture from nitrogen cold trap 1 too). Close condenser line speedivalve to isolate helium cold trap from fridge.
Open valves 5 & 9 to pump mixture from nitrogen and helium cold traps into dump. Wait for G1 to drop to 0 mbar.
1626 Isolated helium cold trap and pulled it out. Pressure in G1 rose to ~ 10 mbar, then dropped.
1758 Cleaned helium cold trap. Recommenced circulation.