TM#4 has been moved from the SW silo to the south hot cell, move went well.

Bevan attempted to start pumping down on TM4 today remotely but there was an issue.  He will report on Monday.

I went into the Target Hall this afternoon while on the phone with Bevan and performed the following:

- Checked the knurled vent valves on the side of each turbo, both were found to be in the tightened position (all the way clockwise)

- Closed the VAT valve between the scroll pump and the nuclear ventilation

Attached are some photos of TM4 in the Conditioning Station after the no-module HV test completion.  Only vacuum services are connected.

2013 winter shut down ITW-TM1 primary vacuum vessel, secondary vacuum vessel, and water lines leak check: connected leak detector to TP2(primary and water lines) and TP4S (secondary). base leak rate 0.0xE-9atm.cc/sec,base pressure 0.0XE-4torr. Sprayed helium to all primary vacuum seal and there is no response on leak detector. Helium pressurized all water lines(except HS) at 70psi ,3mins.Tube heat(+) no response, tube heater(-)1.6xe-9atm.cc/sec, target oven(-)5.8xe-9atm.cc/sec, target oven (+) 6.9xe-9atm.cc/sec, EE 5.7xe-9atm.cc/sec, MSP no response, window 7.5 xe-9atm.cc/sec.All water lines are water leak free.  Two leaks had been found on secondary vacuum vessel. One is on exit 1 to tank o-ring (east side, E-N corner). The leak detector got   responses from 1.4 to1.7 xe-7 atm.cc/sec scale . The test  hadbeen repeated 4-5 times and   confirmed the location   . The second one is a small leak which  is on exit 2 to tank o-ring(east side, close to E-N corner). The leak detector got  responses from 1.4 to 1.8xe-8atm.cc/sec scale. The test had been repeated 3 times and confirmed the location. As the present plan. we will replace the exit1 to tank o-ring during this year shut down time.

the switches and the solenoid are all wire up to 24VDC, when you open either of the little doors the solenoid switches this is also true if there is a power loss. currently the solenoid is powered.

See attached TAPC 477 documentation.

Edi and I replaced the broken ITH MP1 in target hall with a new pump. The old pump was leak on oil. There were no oil had been left in the old pump by checking the sight glass.Thats the reason of  the pump  failure.The tray which the old pump sat on was full of leaking oil ( highly contaminated ). The old pump was bagged in 3 thick plastic bags ,and the tray was cleaned before the new pump was installed. The working area had been cleaned up and surveyed couple of times after the job. Everything is good. The new pump had been tested after the installation. It works fine.

Disconnected EXIT1 in ITW. All cables , wires and air lines are label marked.

TM1 moved from the west station to the southwest silo. Move went well.

Bevan and I replaced TM4 TP1 today at conditioning station .The pump will be started this week when I do ITE and TM4 leak check .

ITW EX1 has been moved from the west target station to the south hot cell for the seal replacement on the west station.

ITW EX1 have been moved back to the west target station from the south hot cell.

On Monday, March 11 the containment box was removed from TM4 and a vacuum leak check preformed in an attempt to locate the leak in the ground electrode circuit.

Following Pierre's work plain helium was sprayed was the highest joint accessible towards the lowest.

A two second spray of helium was applied to the first joint (the reducer from the service tray to the line that goes to the service tray side of the water block connection), no response from the leak detector after 1 minute.

 two second spray of helium was applied to the braze joint of the servive tray side of the waterblock connection; almost immediate response from the leak detector (see David Wand for actual values for leak rate).

The inital joint at the reducer was rechecked to insure the response was not just a risidual slow response from the reducer joint and confirmed by no response after 2 miniutes that it was not.

The braze joint at the service tray block was then tested again with a two second spray and again almost an imediated response.

A meeting was conveined and decided to pressurize this circuit with air and apply snoop solution to the suspect area to try to identify wether the leak is in the braze joint or possibly c-seal...This will take place on Tuesday, March 12th.

Further attempts to localize the leak were unsucessful. The circuit was pressurized with 60 psi air and snoop solution was applied to both the braze joints and the mating surface between the two halfs of the water blocks. Unfortunately, no visible bubbles could be dectected.

This was reported to Grant and Pierre and it was decided to continue with removing one of the vcr gaskets from the optics cooling lines (on the same circuit) and replacing it with a gasket with a sector cut out to allow this circuit to be pumped out and eliminate any virtual leak type response. The feedthru at the service cap will be capped.

Areas that had snoop solution on them were rinsed with methonal.

A cursory inspection of the extraction column was preformed and some pictures of the back side of the mounting plate and surrounding area were taken as there was some interesting discoloration found in the area below the back of the 9 pin connectors.

Picutres of the snoop procedure can be found at https://documents.triumf.ca/docushare/dsweb/View/Collection-9994

The containment box has been re-installed and the window waterlines reconnected and leak checked.

The window lines did pass the leak check, however the leak dectoctor did not pump down past 5.8 x 10-9.

The front cover has also been reinstalled.

I have requested that the module have an electrical check before it moves as the containment box has been off as well as the water blocks being leak checked. Either one of these procedures could causes the water liunes and blocks to alter there position sightly which could cause as short...this is why I have requested an electrical check.

 Dave Morris and I investigated the Faraday Cup today. It was found to be plumed in the wrong direction (fails in). This is not an issue for the conditioning station as there is nothing down stream from the cup. Dave will change the controls to reflect this.

TM4 electrical test at SHC after windown and containment box back is done. Everything is fine.

It took a long time(more than 1 hour)   to pump down the TM4 window  cooling line during leak check time. The base leak rate could only be pumped to 5.8xE-9 atm.cc/sec.Base pressure is 0.0xE-4 torr which is bottom reading. Chad and i did the leak check at this base leak rate .No leak had been found. The window cooling line is leak tight at this stage. A pressure helium test will be fulfilled in conditioning station on this cooling line later.