Over the last couple of days we replaced the gate on the M9BV5 valve. The
old one had worn the teflon sliders on the sides. Metal shavings on bottom
of body. Found a replacement with metal rollers, rather than slides.
Pumped out downstream of gate valve. It's down to 5E-7 (moved the cable on
the ion gauge so it now reads.)
Started cooling down the solenoid. Charging through the adsorber. LN2 fill
piping broke. Repaired by resoldering.
Ion gauge on solenoid seems to have burnt out last night. |