2026-08-27 12:16 UTC
Our most important cryostat was having vibration issues, despite most of it being an anti-vibration scaffold.
Turns out that ice formed in it as we vent it with helium gas from the recovery line, as always.
Fewer and fewer people use helium, the line was just full of random gas.
Interim solution:
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@StripeyYena@chaosfurs.social 2026-08-27 12:22
BUT WAIT. A certain SOMEONE has already pre-planned, long ago, to stop this malpractice of using whatever might be in the helium recovery line. And this someone also had a pure helium gas cylinder, ready to go. AND a regulator, which this someone had fitted in a safety cabinet. What a fucking hero!