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<\/a>Collection of pieces <\/div>
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<\/a>Main tank with loosely fit VCS1 pieces <\/div>
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<\/a>Ed, Jeff, and Ziggy for scale <\/div>
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<\/a>Ken discusses the main tank top <\/div>
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<\/a>Plumbing fixtures and clamped VCS1 <\/div>
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<\/a>More plumbing <\/div>
The caps will be cut off for welding in the rest of the plumbing<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Main tank top detail <\/div>
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<\/a>More main tank, VCS1, and FLexures <\/div>
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<\/a>Closeup of main tank flexure <\/div>
Six of these support the main tank inside the vacuum vessel<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Smaller flexure for supporting vapour cooled shield <\/div>
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<\/a>Flexure pull test setup <\/div>
And a VCS part pulled to 154 pounds<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Vacuum vessel body <\/div>
With many ports for attaching electronics, etc<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Vacuum vessel inside <\/div>
With support points for main tank and VCS2<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Top dome pieces <\/div>
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<\/a>The top dome's dome <\/div>
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<\/a>Bottom dome <\/div>
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<\/a>Domes <\/div>
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<\/a>Top dome plate <\/div>
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<\/a>Plate detail <\/div>
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<\/a>Welds <\/div>
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<\/a>Top dome struts <\/div>
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<\/a>More top dome struts <\/div>
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<\/a>The "doughnut ring" <\/div>
For bottom of vacuum vessel. Holes for cryogenic fill\/vent ports<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Doughnut ring being cleaned <\/div>
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<\/a>Not Spider. Polished parts to reduce thermal emissivity <\/div>
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<\/a>Vacuum fitting <\/div>
"Lightweighted" with "bonus" holes<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>VCS closeout pieces <\/div>
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<\/a>VCS2 bottom annulus and closeouts <\/div>
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<\/a>VCS2 bottom <\/div>
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<\/a>More VCS2 bottom <\/div>
With holes for plumbing<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>VCS2 cable feedthrough detail <\/div>
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<\/a>VCS2 bottom middle <\/div>
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<\/a>Assembled with nuts and bolts <\/div>
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<\/a>VCS1 bottom annulus and closeout <\/div>
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<\/a>VCS1 detail <\/div>
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<\/a>VCS1 cable feedthroughs <\/div>
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<\/a>Assembling the top closeouts <\/div>
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<\/a>Superfluid tank <\/div>
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With Spider still on ice in west Antarctica, construction is well underway on the new cryostat (named Llorothaag aka Lloro aka Thaggie). Last week, Ziggy, Jeff, and I took a trip to Meyer Tool to check on things and discuss some details. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6505"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6505"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6507,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6505\/revisions\/6507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}