Building Diamond Pt 4

In the fourth part of this blog I will show how we put all the parts together to form the machine itself. After most of the girders were in place we had to bring in the ID (insertion device)  makeup pieces  and then connect them to the girders which by now were populating the storage ring tunnel

These ID makeup pieces had to be installed between the girders but firs they had to be lifted in

They also had to be lifted level

because twisting them could cause problems

but as you can see they came down as they should be  with no problems

They were then pushed in between the two girders

The roof was place back , the covering on the machine is to stop dust and small bits of rubbish falling on it and causing damage.
Next we built a Lamina Flow cabinet over the area we were working on and prepped up the part we needed to install

As you can see we were dressed for the job

This is the finished thing, an inter girder bellows in place connecting two of the girders

 The whole lot end up looking like this, The parts you see on the end of the elbows are Ion pumps

The Booster ring was the next on the cards, The stands were already installed

and a crew of contractors moved the girders in place on a trolley especially made for the job

when in position it was lowered in place

Then you did the process again and ended up with a row like this. A survey crew positioned the girders accurately

and they were then connected together.
The part you see on the right is a RF Cavity

This is the section that will take the light beam off to the storage ring

and this is looking towards the part that will come from the Linac

You will have to enlarge this photo was it shows a large section of the booster ring from the Septum where it leaves the Booster and heads to the storage ring 

The Linac is the one place I really enjoyed assembling

These are more RF tubes and the part with silver sides is an ION pump

Along the Linac stands were installed

Contractors from Germany assembled the first part of the gun

It was very impressive when you see all the magnets

especially the copper section

Here you can see the survey team working

They were surveying in these Magnets

This is the Linac Gun before a cage was put in place

Above looking along the copper section

Left looking back to the Linac Gun

Another view to the Gun end

and one showing where the beam dumps will go

Above one of the Vacuum techs working on the pumping ring and helium leak detector

Left the Linac gun in place and caged off

The Manet's near the Linac Gun

Above the copper tube as it comes through the magnet array



Right this view shows the finished line

with all the RF tubes connected

This photo shows the RF tubes and more ION pumps

Here we look at the section where it goes through the wall to the Booster ring.

That is how we built the storage ring at Diamond Light Source. It took around a year to do, that was just our part other sections had to add their parts and the whole thing tested. I started in March 2004 and by the end of 2007 the first users were taking beam. The whole project came in on time and to budget.

In the next blog I will show you around the storage ring as it looks today and show some of upgrade process.