Microscope Prototype Mechanical Design Drawings

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Purpose

The purpose of this page is to list the pertanent files used during the design and construction of the Tagger Microscope Prototype.

Drawings

• By standardizing the sequence of sandpaper grit and manufacturer we can not only eliminate the variance between nailbrush companies, but we can also decrease the training time required for new students to learn the polishing techniques.
• Finer grit sandpaper ( 400, 600, 1500, and 2000 grit made by 3m) has just been brought in and I hope to post new pictures showing the quality of polish for each grade of paper for reference.
• After researching other experiments using scintillating tubes I found that Jefferson Laboratories uses a plastic polish for their fibers. We will soon test Novus Plastic Polish for its effectiveness in polishing the waveguides and scintillators. Below is a link to the Novus website as well as to the Jefferson Lab website where the information was found.
• http://www.novuspolish.com/
• www.jlab.org/~cecire/share/mparts.doc

These are polished fibers that were worked on for over an hour each. They were cut without using the fly cutter and so you can notice on the scintillating fiber a presence of outer cladding. These images will serve as a reference of comparison for when we begin using the Novus Plastic Polish.