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yoichi.aso - 21:49 Thursday 14 March 2024 (28856) Print this report
MC mirror surface inspection

I took a close look at the MC mirror surfaces to see if there is any contamination.

I used a Nikon Z50 with the "camera control pro 2" software to control the camera remotely through a USB cable.
This allowed me to finely control the focus and quietly take shots without shaking the camera by the push of the shutter button.

In order to detect dusts and stains on the mirror surface, the interior of the chamber was illuminated by a strong green light.
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Then a strong green LED flash light was used to further enhance the illumination of the surface.

All the photos can be found here:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/a9vs6nnt1fe6skc2v976k/h?rlkey=71cjz24a47fm7gw0rpl2ir3et&dl=0

For MCi and MCo, we found some dusts in the peripheral area of the mirror, but nothing near the center.

For MCe, although I could not see anything by naked eyes, the photo shows a few small spots near the center.
I don't know if these are dusts or stains.

Closing the chamber without removing them may be risky.
I may try to remove them with FC tomorrow.

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yoichi.aso - 0:47 Saturday 16 March 2024 (28878) Print this report

Today, I applied FC to the MCe mirror to remove the contamination spots near the center.

First, I locked the mirror with EQ stops.

Then I blew ionized air into the mirror surface to remove dusts on it.
It did not change the stains near the center.
(attachment #1)

Then I put a Vectra Alpha near the bottom to catch droplets of FC.
(attachment #2, #3)

After pouring the FC into a bowl, I waited for about 2min to increase the viscousity of the FC liquid.
Then I applied the FC near the center with a brush.
I also put a peel tab on it.
(attachment #4)

After about 45min, I peeled the dried FC.
I also used an ion gun to blow away any dust attracted by the electrostatic.
Unfortunately, there was a tiny patch of FC remaining on the surface. 
So I applied a small amout of the FC on it and peeled off after 20min to completely remove the FC.

The photo after the cleaning with FC did not show any improvemnt on the stains.
(attachment #5)
So, these spots are not dusts, because dusts should be easily removed by the FC.
Probably, these stains were there before we opened the MC chambers this time.
If so, the MC finesse was good even with those stain spots. So we will not try to remove those spots further.

I also took photos of MCi and MCo with focus on the center of the mirror.
(attachment #6(MCi), #7(MCo))
There are actually stain spots similar to the MCe mirror.
Probably they are also not removable with the FC. 
So we decided to leave them as is.

After this work, I returned the Top Gun of CRY to the front room of IXC.
The mirror surface inspection kit, including a remote controllable camera, is in the front room near PR3.

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