Wednesday, September 21, 2011, 13:23

Target oven was wrapped with 3-Ta heatshields including the back block. 

Target is in the chamber and currently being pumped down.

Wednesday, September 21, 2011, 15:52  

IG @ 5.9e-6 Torr.  

TGHT stepped up to 85A, and pressure slowly rising. 

Started auto heating:  0.5A/min.  TGHT to max 580A.  

Thursday, September 22, 2011, 10:19 

Target was heated up to 580A, and held for 3 hrs. 

Currently IG @ 6.15e-6 Torr.

Auto-cooling started...

Thursday, September 22, 2011, 20:20 

Target oven was removed from the evaporator, and it was successfully sintered with TaC. 

Friday, September 23, 2011, 13:39 :

See attachment1: Archiver_TGHt0-580A.