2018/01/25 (Thursday)
| Status: All mixture in dump, fridge isolated. LN2 traps warm and pumped out. 1K Pot needle valve closed. IVC completely removed. Stripline tube removed. Ebox and tubing from ebox to elbow removed. Old striplines removed. |
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| 1010 | Insert stripline tube (wizard's staff) back in fridge. Bill Voje polished the scratched end. We put blue tape around the end as we raised it through the baffles. Took off the tape before pushing it through the o-ring at the top fringe flange. We pushed it up once, then pulled it down to see if there were any new scratches: there weren't. Possibly polishing the inside of the fridge port helped. |
| 1030 | Tie a washer to a 6-foot length of dental floss. Leave this on the fridge top. We'll tie it to the first stripline baffle after we get the striplines on the fridge top. |
| 1300 | Begin stripline install |
Time lapse video of stripline installation, 13:02 to 15:32
| 1330 | Fed striplines down the stripline tube, then placed the elbow in place, then pushed the stripline tube up from the bottom to engage the o-ring in the elbow. |
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| 1335 | Striplines fed down through stripline tube. The bottom baffle slid down the striplines when pulling on the dental floss - we had to reattach it. Also the striplines buckled between the bottom baffle and the tape lower down, so we removed and replaced the tape.  |
| 1335 | Warm ends of striplines laid on top of fridge stand. The bottom baffle was taped to the bottom of the stripline tube to keep the striplines from falling further through.  |
| 1345 | Polished the upper 100mK can. Reattached stripline connector protector plates, temporarily.  |
| 1345 | Fed striplines through elbow-to-Ebox tubing.  |
| 1405 | Fed striplines through ebox. Connected o-ring clamps at elbow, t-intersection to pumpout, back of Ebox.  |
| 1415 | Striplines too short to not use rerouting boards. So we decided to remove all the rerouting wires and flip the switches to connect all traces.  |
| 1420 | Stripline 19 rerouting board, before removing wires.  |
| 1420 | Stripline 20 rerouting board, before removing wires.  |
| 1420 | Stripline 27 rerouting board, before removing wires.  |
| 1430 | Remove wires from the three warm-end rerouting boards and switch all switches to ON |
| 1500 | Install upper IVC. (1.5mm indium on top flange, 1mm indium on stripline flange.) As usual removed the stripline protectors to feed them through IVC port - these seem like a tighter fit than the last ones.  |
| 1515 | Attach upper stripline heatsink, 2 inches below bottom baffle.  |
| 1520 | Connect striplines at Ebox. Left to right: 41, 43, 48.   |
| 1530 | Reattach stripline protector plates. Thinking about reinforcements at the end near the plates, perhaps several layers of tape on the striplines then taped securely to the copper plate.  |