JamesAkers, Tomorrow is Xenon day! Jon from work fabbed the aluminum holder. I finished an pumped the rest of the current jobs tubes (34 tubes) an then fabbed this little sidearm.
I actually had to wipe out the seacrest phosphor from the tube as 9mm is sort of a hard to find size.
I opened the robbins and dumped the propane left between valves. Gonna let it vacuum out overnight. I can't believe I got a vacuum seal first try!
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The prepared sidearm. I ended up cutting the bottom right down a little so I could more easily fit it onto the manifold
10, pineapple ovals- just pumped, pre mercury addition, traps still on. The yellow ovals are neat stacked up, and its quick to age them all in wired up like that.
Leak checking. I filled the manifold to 8 torr of propane and left it- to check for leaks in the vacuum fittings with the new side arm. First try was perfect. It's nice having another knob there😋
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