Broken handle cable of east manipulator has been replaced and manipulator is operational again.

South hot cell was entered to check to replace cable if needed. Wrist cable showed no signs of fraying or broken strands.

A tong with new cable pre-installed is now in the hot cell for next time this job needs to be done. There is also another spare tong cable not installed in a tong located in the box of manipulator repair equipment located inside the hot cell.

Both manipulator slave ends were lubricated whilst inside.

Rebuild handle of manipulator serial 7986 (currently in the east position) and replaced broken snap ring 5555-18h on west side of the handle underneath motion switch.

Tuesday, June 26 the broken tong cable was replaced on the west manipulator in the south hot cell. Wednesday the tong cable was preemptively replaced on the east manipulator of the south hot cell.

Maico entered the hot cell and re-strung the skipped cable back onto the pulleys this morning. Manipulator is now operational.

Manipulator has been sucessfully repaired. Recieved 0.19 mSv. Took Approx. 10-20 minutes

The broken cable on the east manipulator has been replaced.

The handle will need some adjustments which will take place first thing tomorrow.

Broken cable has been replaced however a cable has hopped some pulleys inside. After two hours in cell the job was stopped with cables still off pulleys. Alternate tooling will have to be made and the job will continue Monday.

Disassembled the master side of the right manipulator this morning to check the wrist cable. The cable on the master side shows no sign of wear or fraying suggesting that the slave side cable may be the item that is wearing. during disassembly of the master I did notice some loose parts that could have been the source of the audible concern but should not have contributed to the slippage felt in the gripper. I will try and schedule Tuesday for entry into the hot cell to address the slave cable.

Hot cell was entered for preventative mait. on left manip. field measurements around the cell were taken in prep. for window removal in January and left/south light bulb changed.

Hottest item in the cell was the conductor block end of the TM4 febiad coil line. It was 70 mSv/H on contact and seemed to be the major source of field in the hot cell. The waterblock end of this line did not apper to be hot.

Aaron and I completed assembling (re-assembling) the clean spare on Tuesday, February 14th to assist in determining a procedure for replacement of the 'Z' motion cable on the south hot cell manipulators.

The anchor point in the slave end of the clean manipulator could not be found as the manipulator stand is too low and does not allow full extension of the slave end.

Did some poking around on the in-situ manipulator in the south cell and was able to find the anchor point viewing it with the in cell camera (see blurry attached photo).

Was able to then find reference to the "cable clamp" in the parts list and drawing for the slave end. Also, confirmed there is not a procedure in the manual for a CABLE 'Z' motion system as we have, only a tape driven system. The procedure should however be very similar safe this mystery anchor point I discovered today and how readily this anchor point can be worked in.

East manipulator on the south hot cell is showing signs of eminent wrist/tong cable failure. Some slight slippage was noted yesterday and confirmed by a snapping sound and more slippage tomorrow.

Aaron and I successfully completed a run through on the procedure to replace the 'Z' motion cable. I will be writing up the procedure for review and we will be performing more run through-s for practice before the actual job.

Bearings for the main storage vault door were lubricated on 2023-07-28. It is unknown when this was last done. It is suggested that this be a recurring maintenance task every two years.

Today Maico measured the thickness of three indium-plated inconel c-seals, presumably Ultra-Seal P/N 50606.  These seals had NOT been in the Hot Cell.

Uncompressed (new) "thin" c-seal

OD .435"

ID .300"

Thickness .094"

Uncompressed (new) "thick" c-seal

OD .438"

ID .280"

Thickness .096"

Compressed (used) "thin" c-seal (Beginning of Life bench test compression only, not long term compression)

OD .438"

ID .294"

Thickness .079"

Maico commented that he measured the thickness of a few other compressed "thin" c-seals and they all had .079" thicknesses.

The seal space when the blocks are bolted together (shown on ITA2342 Rev F) should be .070" (steel insert CB) + .002" (recess on module side)  + .002" (recess on source-tray side) = .074"

Thus the compressed seals seem to have .079" - .074" = .005" spring-back.

C-seal drawings from Ultra-Seal and Garlock in chronological order from Guy Stanford's design file are attached.  Guy's whole design file is also attached for reference.

TCS:MP1 was tripping of intermittently yesterday. It was found by Dave Morris that the current sensor was not set correctly causing the pump on status to flicker at times. Dave adjusted the settings yesterday. The system should be operational and is currently running normally.

Anders and I found a low frequency issue(13hz only) on TCS TGHT flow sensor when doing TM4 conditioning. By trouble shooting, We found the module water lines are good. the restriction cause this problem in on TCS supply or return water lines to TGHT.  I switched TGHT lines with MSP water lines. The wheel frequency on TGHT is 67.0hz which is pretty high. Now, MSP is using the original TGHT water line(flow sensor frequency 13hz). Flow sensors and thermocouples are switched as well so no control system change is needed on epic page. Everything are re-labeled in TH.  With less brazing joints closing to heater source, the MSP line should be ok. By further troubleshooting this issue, I think the problem on this low flow sensor frequency problem is on those 1/2" Parker gray water lines inside that big  6" white pipe.  See attachments. The lines are are twisted, and could be squeezed in my view. Since everything is enclosed in that big pipe, It is hard to tell where the lines are squeezed and cause this restriction. Comparing to an open guide chase, this round pipe makes everything  difficult. Hard to trouble shooting , hard to remove lines or add new lines. It only looks beautiful. I tried all I can do, But, I have no quick solution to solve this problem permanently.  Maybe, Rob walker and his technicians has better skill or more strength on removing old lines, or adding new lines to solve the problem. 

 Today while I was removing the SiC#43 it was noticed that the multipin guide pin was loose.

This made it difficult to remove the target, and the multipin shoulder bolts removal was required.

With the loose pin it was not possible to attach the multipin for the target C#4.

Chad was able to tighten the multipin guide pin enough, however it became obvious that the pin could not be removed when it was attempted.

With the pin tightened, the target C#4 was installed and all checks were good.

It was recommend that once the C#4 target is removed the TM4 will need some repair to remove the multipin guide pin. 

Chad - Also it was noted that the guide pin (ITA6453) in question showed signs of plating or heat (see pictures I've added)

Tray with loop and beam shield has been inserted into the hot cell to be installed on TM4 .

 The targets in the mini storage have been loaded into the F-308.