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Date |
Author |
Category |
Type |
Subject |
Text |
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83
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Thursday, February 13, 2025, 18:00 |
Albert Kong | Hot Cell 1 | Development | APTW Front End Mid-Height and Upper VCR Joint Access and Service Testing | Feb 13:
The 'hanging' VCR joint on the driver
side was successfully exchanged by hand: |
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82
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Wednesday, January 15, 2025, 13:52 |
Albert Kong | Hot Cell 1 | Development | APTW Front End VCR Gasket Selection | Today RH (CF and AK) agreed upon using
the following style of gaskets for the ARIEL
front ends: |
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81
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Wednesday, January 15, 2025, 13:23 |
Albert Kong | Hot Cell 1 | Development | APTW Front End Power Busbars Stabuli Connector Exchange | We successfully performed a removal and
replacement of a power busbar stabuli connector
on the front end plate where the HTV connects |
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80
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Wednesday, January 15, 2025, 13:09 |
Albert Kong | Hot Cell 1 | Repair | West turntable festooning pillar and cable damage | Some issues were encountered with the turntable
controls on the west hot cell, as a result
the festooning post for the turntable was |
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79
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Wednesday, January 15, 2025, 12:57 |
Albert Kong | Hot Cell 1 | Development | APTW Front End HTV Water Connector Exchange Testing | The four water connections on the front
end plate of the APTW that will connect to
the HTV were tested for replacement with |
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78
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Wednesday, January 15, 2025, 12:57 |
Albert Kong | Hot Cell 1 | Development | APTW Front End Service Tray Flexible VCR Line Exchange Testing | Removal and replacement testing of the
stainless VCR lines extending from the HVFT
to the piston modules and FE plate is documented |
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77
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Thursday, December 12, 2024, 16:20 |
Aaron Tam | Hot Cell 1 | Development | Extraction Electrode Banana Plug (Show and Tell) | December 12, 2024 - Chad
Fisher, Albert Kong, Aaron Tam, Austin Hagen
Tests: |
6x |
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76
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Thursday, December 12, 2024, 15:57 |
Aaron Tam | Hot Cell 1 | Development | Pistons Gas lines exchange | December 12, 2024 - Chad Fisher,
Albert Kong, Aaron Tam
Tests: |
13x |
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75
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Wednesday, December 11, 2024, 11:45 |
Albert Kong | Hot Cell 1 | Development | APTW Front End Service Tray and Associated Component Testing | Dec 10, 2024
Testing completed: |
16x |
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74
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Friday, November 29, 2024, 15:23 |
Adam Newsome | Hot Cell 1 | Maintenance | 1000 kg crane: y axis position display not functioning | After a recent power cycle, the y-axis
referencing was lost for the 1000 kg crane.
The position readout was also incorrect, |
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73
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Thursday, November 28, 2024, 09:04 |
Adam Newsome | Hot Cell 1 | Repair | Hot Cell turntables not rotating, access hatch not moving | It was reported that the hot cell turntables
would not rotate and the access hatch could
not be operated. The turntables' elevation |
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72
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Wednesday, November 27, 2024, 18:38 |
Albert Kong | Hot Cell 1 | Standard Operation | APTW Front End Electrical Cable Replacement Testing | November 27, 2024
Testing completed:
Removal and re-insertion |
19x |
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71
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Tuesday, November 19, 2024, 15:38 |
Albert Kong | Hot Cell 1 | Standard Operation | APTW Front End Moved into Hot Cell | The APTW front end was moved into the hot
cell, on the lift table, following procedures
outlined in Document-244862. |
23x |
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70
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Thursday, October 17, 2024, 11:34 |
Albert Kong | Hot Cell 1 | Development | Tarping completed on hot cell roof | Two tarps were installed above the hot
cell roof to protect against concrete dust
while testing in the hot cell. |
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69
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Thursday, October 10, 2024, 12:22 |
Adam Newsome | Hot Cell 1 | Standard Operation | Safety Walkaround Complete - Hot Cell area | A safety walkaround was completed for the
ARIEL Hot Cell area.
The resulting spreadsheet can be |
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68
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Tuesday, September 10, 2024, 13:03 |
Adam Newsome | Hot Cell 1 | Development | Spacer flange installation | The spacer flanges were installed on both
turntables today.
See photos and information in the |
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67
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Tuesday, September 10, 2024, 12:52 |
Adam Newsome | T-Hall Crane | Standard Operation | Drive not ready faults observed on power-up | Upon powering on the crane today and attempting
to use the main hoist, the following faults
were present: |
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66
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Wednesday, July 17, 2024, 15:07 |
Adam Newsome | Hot Cell 1 | Standard Operation | Safety Walkaround Complete - B2 Level | A safety walkaround for July 2024 was completed
for the B2 level by A. Newsome. No deficiencies
to report. |
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65
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Wednesday, April 24, 2024, 09:17 |
Adam Newsome | T-Hall Crane | Repair | Target Hall Crane: VFD DC bus undervoltage fault [root cause: encoder board failure on 900VFD] | On 2024-04-22 around 3:30 pm it was discovered
that the crane's main hoist was in a faulted
state. The operator (Adam Newsome) experienced |
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64
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Wednesday, February 14, 2024, 09:02 |
Adam Newsome | T-Hall Crane | Maintenance | Target Hall Crane: Trolley Encoder Homing | The main trolley's E/W motion was observed
to be slowed on 2024-02-13.
Upon investigation, the following |
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63
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Wednesday, August 02, 2023, 09:13 |
chad fisher | Hot Cell 1 | Repair | Leak Rate Testing | On August 1, 2023 HC1 was pumped down to
-1200 Pa (gauge) and then valved off to test
the leak rate after turntables had been sealed |
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62
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Wednesday, April 26, 2023, 16:06 |
Adam Newsome | T-Hall Crane | Maintenance | Target Hall Crane - Hoist Wire Wrapping | It was observed recently that the main
hoist's wires seemed skewed, and there was
occasionally some noise heard when raising |
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61
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Tuesday, April 25, 2023, 12:28 |
Adam Newsome | T-Hall Crane | Standard Operation | ARIEL Target Hall Crane - Drives Fault | Today while operating the crane with load,
the crane stopped moving. Upon investigating,
all safety signals appeared to be OK. Fault |
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60
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Tuesday, March 21, 2023, 10:47 |
Adam Newsome | Hot Cell 1 | Repair | Circuit breaker replacement - telemanipulators | There was an issue with a 20 A circuit
breaker used to control motor assist functions
for the telemanipulators (specifically, the |
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59
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Thursday, March 16, 2023, 14:41 |
Adam Newsome | T-Hall Crane | Development | ARIEL Target Hall Crane - Spare Pendant Procured, Tested | A spare pendant for the overhead crane
was procured from COH. The pendant's functionality
is the same as the original one's. The pendant |
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58
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Friday, January 20, 2023, 14:48 |
Adam Newsome | T-Hall Crane | Standard Operation | Pendant/Receiver Communication Issue (Repeated) | An issue was observed in which the pendant
did not work to control the crane. This
is the second time in recent memory this |
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57
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Friday, January 13, 2023, 13:57 |
Adam Newsome | T-Hall Crane | Repair | Crane light (west) not working | It was observed today that the crane's
west light was not functioning. |
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56
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Tuesday, December 20, 2022, 10:03 |
Adam Newsome | T-Hall Crane | Standard Operation | Overhead crane powered off for the holidays | [edit 2023-01-03] The crane was powered
back on this morning - there do not appear
to be any faults on the HMI and it seems |
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55
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Wednesday, August 24, 2022, 13:47 |
Adam Newsome | T-Hall Crane | Standard Operation | Pendant/Receiver Communication Issue | In preparing to troubleshoot the issue
described in e-log #54, the crane was power
cycled, and the pendant battery removed, |
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54
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Tuesday, August 23, 2022, 10:32 |
Adam Newsome | T-Hall Crane | Maintenance | North Aux Hoist - reverse motion axes on E/W | Update 2022-10-06: During routine
inspection of the crane, Tom Kauss investigated
the direction swap issue. It was determined |
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53
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Monday, May 30, 2022, 12:58 |
Adam Newsome | T-Hall Crane | Development | Reversion of South position limit to OEM value | The position limit modification described
in e-log 49 has been reverted. Currently
the South soft limit is set back to 0.36m. |
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52
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Tuesday, March 15, 2022, 10:03 |
Adam Newsome | T-Hall Crane | Repair | North Aux Hoist VFD Replaced | The North Aux Hoist VFD which had failed
(e-log 50) was replaced today by Tom Kauss
and Adam Newsome on Work Permit A2022-03-15-1. |
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51
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Friday, February 18, 2022, 09:26 |
Adam Newsome | T-Hall Crane | Maintenance | Potential grease leak observed | Naimat Khan noticed after using the crane
that some grease dropped onto a spreader
bar, and believes it is a leak from the main |
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50
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Tuesday, February 01, 2022, 08:29 |
Adam Newsome | T-Hall Crane | Repair | North Aux Hoist - West Motion Failure | An issue was observed in which the North
Aux hoist failed to travel West when commanded
to, but the East motion was functioning. |
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49
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Thursday, January 06, 2022, 10:46 |
Adam Newsome | T-Hall Crane | Development | Modification of South Limits | Edit: as of May 30, 2022, the modification
has been reversed, and the crane is functioning
normally as per the manufacturer's limits. |
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48
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Tuesday, November 23, 2021, 11:01 |
Adam Newsome | T-Hall Crane | Repair | Load Cell - Not Functioning | The load cell which is located on the crane
itself to display the load to operators was
reported not working during the week of November |
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47
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Thursday, September 16, 2021, 09:37 |
Adam Newsome | T-Hall Crane | Maintenance | Bridge Encoder Homing | The bridge motion was slowed due to encoder
homing issue. It is likely that the problem
which occurred yesterday caused an velocity |
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46
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Wednesday, September 15, 2021, 15:10 |
Adam Newsome | T-Hall Crane | Maintenance | Hoist Broken Fault (actually: cable wrap issue) | A fault occurred which presented as "114.
Main Hoist Cable Broken (3200PX)". This
occurred when a SEG block was suspended approximately |
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45
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Wednesday, September 09, 2020, 10:51 |
Adam Newsome | T-Hall Crane | Repair | North Aux Hoist Replacement (followup on E-Log 44) | See E-Log 44 for details on North Aux Hoist
failure.
A replacement VFD was ordered by |
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44
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Friday, July 03, 2020, 15:43 |
Adam Newsome | T-Hall Crane | Repair | North Aux Hoist: West Travel Motion Failure | An issue was observed in which the North
Aux hoist failed to travel West when commanded
to, but the East motion was functioning. |
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43
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Thursday, February 13, 2020, 08:51 |
Adam Newsome | T-Hall Crane | Standard Operation | Remote mode door limit switch bypass | The non-existent safety limit switch for
the target hall door which prevents remote
motion has been bypassed in the crane PLC |
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42
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Tuesday, November 19, 2019, 10:31 |
Adam Newsome | T-Hall Crane | Repair | 900VFD Encoder Board Replacement | An issue arose in which the ARIEL crane hoist
could not be moved. It was determined that
the East and West drums were out of synchronization |
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41
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Tuesday, August 13, 2019, 11:43 |
Jason Kapalka | T-Hall Crane | Development | Installed surge protector | Background: On 2019-06-25 a Pri VelFdbk Loss
fault was discovered on the Main Hoist East
Drum South Motor of the ARIEL Target Hall |
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40
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Wednesday, March 13, 2019, 16:14 |
Isaac Earle | 100KW Beam Dump | Development | Testing EHD water leak detectors | The following work was completed today
on the EHD water leak sensors:
Mike Vogel installed a |
9x |
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39
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Friday, December 22, 2017, 12:42 |
Jason Kapalka | T-Hall Crane | Standard Operation | Powered down ARIEL Target Hall Crane | Powered down ARIEL Target Hall Crane
today by switching off main power switch
on B1 level in preparation for site-wide |
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38
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Monday, July 17, 2017, 15:32 |
Jason Kapalka | T-Hall Crane | Repair | Target Hall Crane modifications and repairs | |
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37
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Wednesday, June 28, 2017, 17:37 |
Isaac Earle | BL4N | Development | BL4N 35-deg bender "No. 1" installed on magnet stand | BL4N 35-deg bender magnet "No.
1" has been installed onto the magnet
stand with "stand leg" configuration |
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36
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Monday, June 05, 2017, 16:16 |
Isaac Earle | BL4N | Development | BL4N 35-deg bender stand assembly complete | Assembly
of two complete bender stands was completed |
14x |
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35
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Thursday, June 01, 2017, 15:25 |
Isaac Earle | BL4N | Development | BL4N 35-deg bender adjustment blocks modified to fit magnet | Adjustment blocks were installed on the
second dipole bender today (labeled "No.
03" "C15-III-57/15"). The |
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34
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Tuesday, May 16, 2017, 17:30 |
Jason Kapalka | T-Hall Crane | Development | ARIEL Target Hall Overhead Crane Measurements | On May 5, 2017 the Beamlines and Remote Handling
groups recorded distances in the ARIEL Target
Hall from the Target Pit floor and B1 Target |
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33
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Tuesday, May 02, 2017, 16:52 |
Isaac Earle | BL4N | Development | BL4N 35-deg bender stand hardened parts tested | Hardness testing was performed on
1 sample each of parts TBP1822 and TBP1823
(part of the 35-deg magnet stand assembly |
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32
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Tuesday, April 18, 2017, 19:28 |
Jason Kapalka | T-Hall Crane | Development | ATH overhead crane fault investigation | On April 18, 2017, an investigation was initiated
to determine the cause of the ARIEL Target
Hall overhead crane faults that occurred |
8x |
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31
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Wednesday, April 12, 2017, 10:52 |
Jason Kapalka | T-Hall Crane | Repair | ARIEL Target Hall crane oil leaks & inspection plan | On March 29, 2017, a 9 tonne load was transferred
in the ARIEL Target Hall with the overhead
crane (TRIUMF crane #44). On April 3, 2017, |
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30
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Friday, March 31, 2017, 19:39 |
Jason Kapalka | T-Hall Crane | Development | ARIEL Target Hall overhead crane faults (Test Mode) | On March 29, 2017, a 9 tonne steel shield
block was transferred from the ARIEL Target
Pit and placed into a
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29
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Wednesday, February 15, 2017, 11:57 |
chad fisher | T-Hall Crane | Development | Jason's Remote Crane Test Boxes | On Tuesday, February 14th I finished modifying
Jason's boxes for the remote crane tests
by adding shelves to mount cameras... Apart |
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28
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Thursday, April 07, 2016, 11:25 |
Isaac Earle | 100KW Beam Dump | Development | Result of VCR Gasket Corrosion Test | In August 2014 gasket corrosion tests
were prepared by placing a 1" Swagelok
VCR gasket in a 500mL beaker with de-ionized |
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27
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Monday, January 25, 2016, 13:20 |
Allon Messenberg | T-Hall Crane | Maintenance | Possible oil leak | Two small (approx. 5 cm across) puddles
of green fluid were discovered on the floor,
directly below the crane trolley. The |
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26
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Tuesday, November 03, 2015, 13:15 |
Isaac Earle | 100KW Beam Dump | Development | Initial tests of beam dump water system controls | During the maintenance period today the
E-Hall tunnel was accessed to begin controls
tests on the beam dump water system and initial |
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25
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Wednesday, June 24, 2015, 15:19 |
Isaac Earle | 100KW Beam Dump | Development | Remainder of BD Shielding Installed | The location of the already installed blocks
including the TSH0392 protruding lift bails
were remeasured, and it was found that modification |
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24
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Monday, June 15, 2015, 17:08 |
Isaac Earle | 100KW Beam Dump | Development | E-Dump Shielding Installation | - The hoist rings were removed from the
upper lead shield
- Two standard lock-blocks were installed |
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23
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Friday, June 12, 2015, 10:16 |
Isaac Earle | 100KW Beam Dump | Development | Beam Dump Vac Seal Vent & Test | - Vacuum has been pumping steadily on the
EHDT section since June 8, reaching 3.2E-8
Torr at 8am today (June 12) |
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22
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Wednesday, June 10, 2015, 14:57 |
Isaac Earle | 100KW Beam Dump | Development | BD Water System Leak Test | A leak test was performed on the beam dump
water system on June 9 in the afternoon.
- Pipe segments tested: The entire |
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21
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Monday, June 08, 2015, 15:23 |
Isaac Earle | 100KW Beam Dump | Development | Beam Dump Seal Re-Install | On Monday June 8 the following work
was performed by Isaac Earle and Keith Ng:
- EHDT beamline vented |
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20
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Monday, June 08, 2015, 15:15 |
Isaac Earle | 100KW Beam Dump | Development | Beam Dump Vacuum Leak | - On Thurdsay June 4th the EHDT beamline
section was vented by Vacuum Group so that
they could install a new pump |
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19
|
Tuesday, June 02, 2015, 16:42 |
Isaac Earle | 100KW Beam Dump | Development | Beam Dump Water Block RH Test & Installation | Beam dump waterblocks #1 (BD
Inlet) and #3 (Upper Pb Inlet) were removed |
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18
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Thursday, May 28, 2015, 16:08 |
Isaac Earle | 100KW Beam Dump | Development | Beam Dump Vac Seal RH Test & Installation | The following work was performed on
May 27 & 28, 2015:
- The beam dump 10kW Remote Handling |
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17
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Friday, May 15, 2015, 11:06 |
Isaac Earle | 100KW Beam Dump | Development | BD and Upper Pb Shield Water Hoses Replaced | The beam dump and upper lead shield
flexible hose assemblies have been replaced
with smaller diameter versions to allow for |
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16
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Thursday, May 07, 2015, 16:23 |
Isaac Earle | 100KW Beam Dump | Development | RH Clamp Installed with Used Seal | The remote handling 4" marman flange
clamp was reinstalled today with a used seal.
It is "Clamp B" as tested |
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15
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Wednesday, May 06, 2015, 14:19 |
Isaac Earle | 100KW Beam Dump | Development | EHDT Beam Pipe Section Installed | - On May 4th the EHDT beam pipe section
was installed by Mike Vogel of Beamlines
Group |
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14
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Friday, April 17, 2015, 14:37 |
Isaac Earle | 100KW Beam Dump | Development | RH Clamp Delivered to Beamlines Group | A 4" Remote Handling Marman
Flange Clamp was delivered to Doug Preddy
today to be used to clamp the EHDT beam pipe |
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13
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Friday, March 20, 2015, 11:45 |
Isaac Earle | 100KW Beam Dump | Development | Lower Half of BD EHDT Shielding Installed | The lower half of the beam dump EHDT
shielding was installed yesterday by Plant
Group. After installation of the service |
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12
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Friday, February 06, 2015, 13:32 |
Isaac Earle | 100KW Beam Dump | Development | TEL5079 Hose Modification | When the EHDT shielding service stand shield
plug was installed in January it was found
that the Beam Dump Outlet Hose (TEL5079) |
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11
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Monday, December 22, 2014, 14:21 |
Isaac Earle | 100KW Beam Dump | Development | Water System Leak Checked | This morning Bill Richert pressurized the
beam dump water cooling system with 30psi
air and held for 2 hours. He reported |
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10
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Friday, December 19, 2014, 14:05 |
Isaac Earle | 100KW Beam Dump | Development | Beam Dump & Lead Shielding Design Documentation | As there likely won't be an opportunity
to properly document the design of the beam
dump insert and cooled lead shielding in |
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9
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Tuesday, December 16, 2014, 16:36 |
Isaac Earle | 100KW Beam Dump | Development | Upper Pb Shield and Water Hoses Installed | The upper lead shield was installed
this morning. Also the water hoses
for lower lead shield, beam dump, and upper |
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8
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Friday, December 05, 2014, 10:43 |
Isaac Earle | 100KW Beam Dump | Development | Lower Lead Shield Drain Line Installed | A 1/8" SS tube was routed from the
Swagelok fitting on the front of the lower
lead shield to the service stand water catch |
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7
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Wednesday, December 03, 2014, 10:45 |
Isaac Earle | 100KW Beam Dump | Development | BD Signals Traced from Service Stand to Junction Box | On Dec 2 the cables from the BD service
stand area to the junction box were traced
to establish which sensors correspond to |
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6
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Wednesday, December 03, 2014, 10:36 |
Isaac Earle | 100KW Beam Dump | Development | Upper half of BD water blocks installed; Bypass loops installed | On December 2 the upper half of the RH
water blocks were installed (4 total) using
a 0.030" thick 6061-T6 Al shim torqued |
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5
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Wednesday, December 03, 2014, 10:16 |
Isaac Earle | 100KW Beam Dump | Development | Installation of Lower Lead Block and Beam Dump Insert | On November 28th the lower lead shield
was installed with 3/8" shimming at
the front end, and 11/32" shimming at |
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4
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Wednesday, November 26, 2014, 17:50 |
Isaac Earle | 100KW Beam Dump | Development | Installation of Lower Center Block (TSH0461) | Painting and relabeling of the modified
lower center block (TSH0461) was completed
on Monday Nov 24. |
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3
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Friday, November 21, 2014, 13:37 |
Isaac Earle | 100KW Beam Dump | Development | Destructive Testing of 1" MDC Ceramic Breaks | Testing was performed on the ceramic water
breaks to be used on the beam dump water
hose assemblies. The ceramic breaks |
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2
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Wednesday, November 19, 2014, 13:49 |
Isaac Earle | 100KW Beam Dump | Development | Decision on Modifications to Lower Center Block (TSH0225) | I received a call today from Jim Adamson
at Kaltech regarding modifications to shielding
block TSH0225. |
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1
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Tuesday, November 04, 2014, 16:58 |
John Wong | 100KW Beam Dump | Maintenance | Testing Elog | Tuesday, November 04, 2014, 16:58
This is a test.
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