PSL Table Lifting

Overview

• The PSL table height will be raised to the level of the AP table.
• This will be done using 6 TMC's Rigid Damped Tripod legs.
• The legs will be grouted to the floor with concrete.

Drawing for the leg positions

- The planned positions of the legs are shown below.

Work schedule

PSL_work_schedule.pdf

Cable Removal

PSL_cable_map.pdf

Work Log

Aug 5th

10am-4pm?: (Kiwamu, Alberto, Koji)

• Removing the unused cables around the PSL table and the control room

Aug 6th

10am-5pm: (Steve, Jenne, Alberto, Kiwamu, Koji)

• We labeled the cables to be disconnected
  • These will be disconnected in order to isolate the PSL table and the frame (housing) from the other part of the lab.
  • Upon the labeling we made the list and the map of the cables to be removed.
  • On Monday we disconnect those cables one by one accoding to the list.
• The following stuffs have been removed from the PSL table
  • The big nuts at the side of the PSL table
  • The cable ties on the PSL frame
  • Innolight 2W
  • The green pickoff optics at the edge
  • The optics on the shelf
  • The oscilloscopes on the shelf
• The OMC power supply cable was visited.
  • The connections to the power supply were removed. There are two HV outputs.
• We put thick and long optical poles
  • They are placed at the edge of the table so that we can put the plastic sheets on the table without touching the optics.

Aug 9th

9am-5pm: (Steve, Jenne, Alberto, Koji)

• Disconnecting the cables ==> All

• Shutting down the PSL ==> Steve/Koji

  • o Draining the cooling water ==> Steve

• Removals

  • o The accelerometers ==> Jenne o The reference cavity chamber ==> Steve o The small periscope ==> Alberto

• Sealing of the table with the plastic sheets
• The chiller is planned to go to MIT

Aug 10th

10am-2pm: (Steve, Mike, Koji)

• Lifting of the PSL frame
• Lifting of the PSL table
• Putting Al legs and tie them to the frame bars with steel hose clamps
• Attach the template board to the bottom surface of the PSL table with the C-clamps

Aug 11th

9am-12pm: (Steve, Caltech Carpentar)

• Drilling and tapping of the eighteen 1/4-20 holes to the bottom surface of the table

3:30pm-4:30pm: (Katharine, Sharmila, Gopal, Kiwamu, Jenne, Aidan, Steve, and Koji)

• Wrapping up the central part of the interferometer with plastic sheets

Aug 12th

9am-2pm: (Steve, Bertin Bros. Construction, Inc)

• Powered down 1Y1 and 1Y2 instrument racks of MC and RF-systems
• Covers the both racks, the SP table with plastics.
• Bertin Bros. Construction, Inc worked on the floor preparation. (The head man: Robby Bertin, cell 626.831.2264)
  • removed tiles
  • cleaned off tile glue,
  • drilled for ribbed steel bars
  • roughed clean-surface for good bounding.
  • painted floor with bounding agent