Another GEO600 vacuum scare in December 2018
On 17 December 2018 the GEO600 staff got another fright. Once more all things pointed to a leak in the vacuum system.
Luckily, this was – again – during regular working hours, so sufficiently many members of staff were on site to locate the problem and fix it.
The leak temporarily fixed in August 2017 had opened again. The vacuum glue used 16 months ago as a temporary seal had become brittle and was loosely lying on the vacuum tube. For the time being, another layer of vacuum glue was added to close the leak.
It however became more and more clear that this was not a permanent solution…
https://www.geo600.org/78215/december-20181
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