TM#4 with Ta#42 has been moved to the west target station.

 TM4 with Ta#42 was HV conditioned to 35kV with the optics tray at 17.5kV. There was some vacuum response while ramping but well within normal. Attached is a screen shot and the associated data.

TM#4 with Ta#42 in the conditioning station under vacuum electrical check.

TM#4 with Ta#42 has been moved from the south hot cell to the conditioning station.

Chad and I leak checked TM4 HS line with Ta#42 target on the module. The leak detector base LR 0.0xE-9 atm.cc/sec, base pressure0.0xE-4 torr. Chad applied helium to the joints, and flushed the helium around the target. No leak has been found.I will do helium pressure test on this circuit at CS later.

TM#4 was checked electrically with and without target on it, see attached PDFs for details.

Ta#42 has been installed onto TM4. The "new" 9 pin connector was not an issue...attually went on better than any other previous one. Leaving the mounting screws loose on the target half allowed use of the manipulator to center the pins and insert them with ease.

TM#4 has been moved from the west target station to the south hot cell.

Today:

1) Cleaned flange with methanol and cotton glove, appears to be clean.

2) Installed new beam tube and cradle into wall penetration, cradle was setup same as previous cradle (which is now removed). On advancing into position, the flange on the flexible bellows appears to get stuck on the spigot of the fixed tank flange. Removed and measured slot, is undersize (.373-.374), will re-machine slot for spigot.

3) On visual inspection, ITE tank flange appears to be warped in a location consistent with the clamping area of the window clamp. Further investigation is required.

TM#1 with no target moved from the conditioning station to north west silo.

Today:

1) Vaccumed top and around clamp. Disconnected clamp from flanges and removed from beam line. Currently bagged and stored in metal pail next to target pit area. Clamp is 500 µSv @ 1/2 m.

2) Removed 2A3 window from beam line. Pried apart joint from top of target station using pole tool. Window is 95 mSv o.c. 5000 µSv @ 1/2 m. Currently stored in a metal shield & covered with lead blanket infront of spent target vault.

3) Did preliminary clean of tank side flange with cotton glove. See videos in RH group folder. A mark still remains on flange.

4) Installed dust cover over tank flange.

5) Removed old leaking beam tube + support from wall penetration. Currently stored in 2A tunnel, both pieces are bagged. 500 µSv @1/2m, 12000 µSv o.c. Took 2 vials/samples of the deposits inside the plastic piping surrounding the beam tube supports. Material appears to be crystalline and moist.

With TM4 located in ITW, All air to vacuum seals  on ITW primary and secondary vacuum vessels have been leak  checked with leak detector hooked directly onto the TM4 service cap.The base LR :00xE-9atm.cc/sec. The ITW IG1 was 1.16xE-6 torr which was good. No leak has been found during the checking.Also, the TM4 water lines(except HS) had been  pressurized with 70 psi helium on each for 2 minutes. There was no response during the test. The ITW and TM4 are good on leak checking.See attachment pictures

Continued with vacuuming inside wall penetration to remove debris. Changed filter bag in nilfisk vacuum, left old filter in place however vacuum continues to stall after >5min use. Vacuum gets quite warm before self shutting off. Debris seems to be falling back down on to joint if vacuum is turned off.

Took some screenshots of video showing removed debris and rust(?) on beam pipe. Video located on remote handling group folder.

Will attempt to remove clamp tomorrow.

Cleaned top of the ITE vacuum flange and top of window clamp. Attempted to clean the bellows/beam pipe through the wall, mostly dust and small particles. When cleaning bottom of the wall penetration we picked up a stone/fragment and the vacuum stopped. Appears to be a rock of some kind. 800cpm.

Videos on \\trwindata\groups\remote handling\Videos\2014\2014_2A3window folder, videos 3 and 4.

Video inspected 2a3 window joint this morning.

Screenshots from video showing debris forming around aluminum cradle and brown/red dust on top of beam pipe.

Inspection video can be seen in its entirety at \\trwindata\groups\remote handling\Videos\2014\2014_2A3window

I connected ITW  vacuum system to TM4. TM4 and ITW turbo pumps have been started successfully. The pumping down is good so far.

prep'ed area for work:

- removed shield plug from window clamp area

- inspected clamp from tunnel side and from top of target station: video recorder was not working, will try again tomorrow.

- corrosion seen on beam pipe cradles, see photos. corrosion also seen on beampipe, clamp and vacuum tank. will try to vaccuum loose rust tomorrow.

note: gamma spec of rust, white powder from RPG located in \\trwindata\groups\remote handling\Documents\2014\2A3 Window folder (added pdfs as attachments 2014 mar 4)

TM#4 has been moved from the north west silo to the west target station.

ITE entrance module has been moved from the east station to the south east silo.

TM#3 with no target has been moved from the east target station to the south west silo.