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0845 MC temperature has crept up since Friday to about 88 K. (Still ~100K.) Probably LN is gone.
0850 Have been turbopumping IVC since Friday. Pressure 1.2e-5 mbar pumping, 4.6e-4 mbar with turbo pump valved out.
1010 Added 4.6e-2 mbar He exchange gas to IVC
1015 Pump out main bath. Pump out 1K pot.
1025 Fill LN2 cold trap dewar.
1045 Start LHe transfer (0.0%).
1240 After end transfer with notion that dewar was empty, find that dewar still contains 53L. Resume transfer (-1.0%).
1244 Commence cryocleaning through cold trap 2.
1330 Start pumping out exchange gas from IVC when *still* temperature falls to 20 K. MC = 56 K, Sorb = 7.6 K, 1K Pot = 6.4 K. IVC was at 5.4e-3 mbar.
1330 Bath level 20.8%
1350 End LHe transfer (34.2%).
1358 IVC 1.6e-6 mbar pumping, 7.4e-6 mbar pump valved out.
1504 Stop cryocleaning mix
1505 IVC 1.4e-6 mbar pumping, 6.8e-6 mbar pump valved out.
1515 Dump = 796.3 mbar on G2, Pbar = 30.17 inHg, corrected Pdump = 804.8 mbar
1609 Letting mixture into fridge lines through both still and condenser lines. 12a left closed but speedivalve open.
1733 MC = 50.0 K (slowly cooling), Sorb = 19 K, Still = 35 K, Tower = 50.5 K