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2021/06/02 (Wednesday)

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  • Lab in-personnel: Matt, Michael
Status Run 74 in progress. Warmed up after 3rd appearance of IVC leak at 4K. Cryostat Vacuum Jacket pumped out.
IVC reassembly finished yesterday, clean tent erected at the fridge
1030 Move tower on stand into clean tent
1325 Raise tower up to 30mK can and attach with 3 bolts, then remove tower stand. (Back to 2-person mode so that scissor-jack is not needed - much faster.) Attach cover plate to bottom hole of tower. Verify that orientation is as before: NW face is the accessory face, with the source mover wires visible. So same as before.
1335 Finish torquing bolts on 30mK can
1340 Plug in Tower thermometer and check reading at LakeShore bridge. For some reason it is reading 286 Ω - it should be 1000 Ω, so this is strange…
1400 … the problem is with the Tower thermometer plug (luckily, since this is the easiest thing to fix!). One wire has come loose from its pin, so we need to resolder it and retape the connector. Should be easy enough to do this in the clean tent.
1705 Resolder Tower Thermometer wire, check at LakeShore bridge: 1 kΩ, good. Still need to cover connector with tape.

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