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Description	Due date	Assignee	Task appears on
Bob Nagler to ensure that instructions are included here by 29 Feb 2024	29 Feb 2024	Bob Nagler	4.5. MXI
29 Dec 2023 Robert Nicholas Ettelbrick to install and update documentation	29 Dec 2023	Robert Nicholas Ettelbrick	Layouts
With one person on each long end of the platform, hold it from the top platform (avoid touching any actuators on all mirror mount) set one end on the target chamber breadboard, and then slide the rest inside the breadboard			3/15/24 Installation, L-10034 Gregori
Slide it in position just to let enough space for the next platform to be installed			3/15/24 Installation, L-10034 Gregori
Coarse and fine positioning is done in later steps			3/15/24 Installation, L-10034 Gregori
Remove each 4" cross hair sitting on the bottom platform before moving the system from the storage to the target chamber: delicately hold them at the top, pulling them out from the magnet base, and put them in the storage cabinet until you are done moving the platform to the chamber(TO DO: remove the cross hair from the platform and have a small storage box built dedicated for these and numebr them)			3/15/24 Installation, L-10034 Gregori
First, install the Beam Input platform			3/15/24 Installation, L-10034 Gregori
Second, install the Focusing platform			3/15/24 Installation, L-10034 Gregori
Confirm the platform are roughtly poisitioned as shocn in the following picture and that there are no gaps along the bottom platforms which could indicate that they are sitting on debris or cables			3/15/24 Installation, L-10034 Gregori
Coarse alignment of the Input beam platform			3/15/24 Installation, L-10034 Gregori
Using the two .5” pins (marked in blue) push the platform onto the optical table edge. That locates the platform in North-South direction.			3/15/24 Installation, L-10034 Gregori
Start by placing the 3 circular pucks in their recessed positions on the bottom platform			3/15/24 Installation, L-10034 Gregori
Push the platform such that the edge of platform is touching the alignment block.			3/15/24 Installation, L-10034 Gregori
Securing the platform			3/15/24 Installation, L-10034 Gregori
Add the screw and finger screw them down, without tightening at all. Make sure to use a washer to tighen the puck.			3/15/24 Installation, L-10034 Gregori
Once all the pucks have been inserted and the screw in position, re-confirme that the platform is still referenced with the pins and the stopper by pushing against each reference.			3/15/24 Installation, L-10034 Gregori
Tighten each of the 3 pucks to fully secure the platform			3/15/24 Installation, L-10034 Gregori
Visually confirm that the platform and its stopper match this picture			3/15/24 Installation, L-10034 Gregori
Coarse alignment of the Focusing platform			3/15/24 Installation, L-10034 Gregori
Push the front of the platform against the base of the hexapod, and the side to the alignment block			3/15/24 Installation, L-10034 Gregori

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