[Halld-pid-upgrade] Cookies. Day 1

[Maria Patsyuk]

Hi,

me and Jason started working on the cookies today.
Here I put some information about what we did, photos and plans:

https://gluexdirc.mit.edu/day-1#

In short:

today we prepared the working place for producing cookies and tried to mix the silicone (RTV615 - as first attempt, as this is not the target material, but has similar properties) using standard ratio 10:1 and degas it using vacuum jar. Silicone mixture gets really foamy after careful mixing. Degassing apparently takes several hours, so we let the silicone liquid stand in the molds and in a glass until tomorrow.
Tomorrow we hope to get an idea about how good degassing worked and cure the cookies in the oven at 100C for an hour.
Then we plan to detach it from the mold and see if some release agents/foil is necessary to prevent silicone sticking to the mold.

Please feel free to comment and recommend tests.

Best regards,
Maria
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