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2023/04/19 (Wednesday)

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  • Lab in-personnel: Himangshu, Zach
1356 Take LN2 dewar to be filled
1458 Insert LN2 cold trap 1 and begin filling cold trap dewar with LN2
1510 Continue to fill cold trap dewar, let mixture into the cold trap.
1515 Begin cryocleaning mixture through cold trap 1 following the procedure in procedure:cryoclean_mixture
1520 Open V6 to 12.0% to restart flow
1528 Open V6 to 12.2% to restart flow
1542 Open V6 to 12.3% to restart flow
1620 End cryocleaning mixture through trap 1. Pump mixture to dump
1640 P1 = 0.095 mbar, G1 = 1.8 mbar and stable. Close all valves and turn off 3He pump, leaving 717.9 mbar in dump
1645 Remove cold trap 1 from the LN2 bath to warm up overnight
1600 Double-bag Tower and place in anteroom.
1615 Polish upper surface of adapter ring with ScotchBrite and clean with methanol. Polish bottom edge of 30 mK can with ScotchBrite.
1620 Bring Tower on stand into fridge clean tent. Put it on the scissor jack and center it below fridge. Raise tower stand ring and attach with three bolts to IVC bottom.

Orientation of tower. Face 6 towards East(Stripline)

Raise Tower with scissor jack.
Be careful to orient tower as it is raised so that pins at the DIBs don't hit the lip of the 30mK can.
Remove temporary tape holding thermometer wire to outer edge of 30mK adapter.
Quick electrical check after tower attached to 30mK can. Tower Thermometer reads OK. Detector channels not shorted to chassis. Motor coils OK. Goldman thermometer OK, not shorted.

Finish bolts attaching 30mK adapter to 30mK can and torque them.

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