Glue light guide to the PMT
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</gallery> Warning: UV protection glasses (see Fig. 3) have to be used during UV gluing prcedure
- Clean the PMT face with isopropanol and insert it inside the gluing fixture, slide the PMT up from the bootom
- Make sure that DYMAX UV glue is loaded to the syringe
- Apply one drop of the glue on the PMT face
- Make sure that the light guide surface is clean
- Slide the light guide from the top and put in contact with the PMT. Make sure that there are no air bubbles in the glue between the PMT and LG
- Switch on UV gluing tool. Cure UV glue from the top and two sided. The typical light exposure time is 6 sec for each side
- Slide the PMT with LG to the bottom of the fixture
