CDC travel plans
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Overview
- Load up at CMU - looking at Oct 28-30 or Nov 4-6
- Ideally, store truck indoors overnight
- Drive to JLab
- Arrival before ?pm - go to EEL to unload
- Arrival after ? pm - go to Hall D, drive in, CDC in truck overnight, drive to EEL the next day and unload
Preparations
- Shopping list below
- Add reinforcements to CDC cart for forklift
- Calculate position of CDC's CM - Naomi - approx 20" from Al plate, will revise
- Swap straight wheels for swivel wheels
- Find filters to cap CDC gas tubes
- Wrap CDC in bubblewrap
- Cut dual-density foam to size
- Locate mooring snubbers
- Rent a truck
- Put thermocouple in truck to measure temp near CDC
- Update packing list - extra things to bring (HVBs, manifold etc) installation doc with packing list
- Book accommodation at resfac
- Find somewhere to keep truck indoors overnight at CMU - Naomi
- Negotiate loading bay access - Curtis
- Arrange time with fork lift driver - Gary
Equipment for readout
- 4 long scint paddles are to travel down from CMU
- Do we need to bring any NIM modules?
Longer term plans - after arrival at JLab
- CDC is to be stored in EEL 126? until FDC installation is complete
- HV blocks need to be added
- CDC mini-readout in EEL can be set up once FDC has moved into Hall D
- Expect CDC installation to be in Jan 2014 (engineering) or Dec 2013 (electronics) schedules are linked to installation meeting Sept 27
Shopping list
- Truck - have a candidate
- Unistrut & fittings to modify cart - on order
- Swivel wheels - on order
- Bubble wrap - on order
- Filters for gas lines
- Thermocouple - done
- Fan to distrib heat - on order
- Do we need to borrow a mini-compressor for the cart tires?