Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 15:39:41 -0700
From: Dan Long
Subject: 2.5m Day Log 20080103
Spectrograph b1 Locking Ring:
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    Yesterday I tracked down the b1 locking ring.  It was in the shop.
Some work had been done on it to add holes for a handle to make it
easier to loosen.  After talking with French, it had been discovered
that the threads were damaged to the point where they probably
couldn't be fixed.  At this point it had slipped through the cracks
and no further work has been done.  Apologies for that.
Bob and French are now fabricating a copy of the ring from aluminum.
This piece will be a test fit for thread depth.  Once this is known a
final brass version will be made.
Other:
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    Bob and Corey CO2 cleaned the optics, and also cleaned fiducials.
    Yesterday, Bob made a platform for the belt sander to make it
easier to work with.
    Norm took down an example of the enclosure power rail shoe we use
to compare with some available in Alamogordo.  It turns out they are
not the same.  The company is going to locate the type of shoe we use.
    I am working on the fourth quarter time tracking numbers.
    Wendell is working on the board layout for the galil power supply spares.
   Wendell dived into the Mac which has the Vellum drawings to see why
it has stopped booting.  It looks like the power supply.  Fritz is
going to get a spare G4 desktop and put the hard-drive from the
Vellum Mac in it, so Corey can continue his ongoing task of drawing
conversion to Solidworks.
				Cheers,
				  Dan