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Repair & Equipment Services
Cleaning Facility (BNL Central Shops)
Solvent cleaning of vacuum parts and leak checking service is also available.
Work is billed to each user via a BNL ILR. Contact the NSLS Building
Manager to arrange for any of these services.
Electronics Repair
Limited repairs for electronic equipment are available from an outside
contractor through the Control Room. Contact Control Room Supervisor Randy
Church (x2550 or x2736, pager 5310). Shipping memos are filled out on the web,
and pick ups are on Fridays. Come to the Control Room for assistance.
The user should call the contractor on the day before scheduled pickups to
alert the contractor of the pickup. Items to be repaired should be left in
the Control Room with the completed shipping memo. Costs are charged to the
user's account.
Electronics services are also available from NSLS personnel, at an estimated hourly rate of $59.00. These can include: Build interlock chassis; Repair electronic equipment such as power supplies and commercially produced electronic equipment; Assemble motor controllers, piezoelectric controllers, etc; Make specific cables or instruct individuals on how to make cables. NOTE: Technical manuals are required in order to repair equipment.
Vacuum Services
The Vacuum Group offers limited repair service for Balzers turbo-molecular
and mechanical pumps. The Vacuum Group also has pumps available for loan and
offers leak checking services, ultra high vacuum cleaning, and vacuum
electronics repair. Hourly rates of $61.00
and parts costs are charged to a user's operating account. Contact Walter
DeBoer (x4100, pager 8204).
User Machine Shop
Located in Room 1-124A, the User Shop is available for use 24 hours a day,
7 days a week. It is staffed weekdays during working hours for those who
seek assistance in operation of the shop's machines and tools. After working
hours, access is available to users who have signed an Acceptance of
Responsibility Form and who have completed the shop training/orientation.
Access to locked-out machinery and equipment during non-working hours is
available to Level III users by signing out a key from the Control Room. A
collection of power tools can be signed out during normal work hours. Users
are responsible for the condition of the item while it is signed out.
Contact the User Shop Manager Bob Kiss (x4926, pager 5827)
for further information on shop orientation, training, or safety issues.
BNL Central Shops
The Laboratory's Central shops (Bldg. 462, x3356) can handle machining
from instrument-making to heavy material projects. There is also a sheet
metal shop and weld shop which can do electron-beam welding. User accounts
are debited for these services; the hourly rate is estimated at
$57.00 with all burdens G&A costs included. There is a tool-lending pool
in the Central Shops, where users can borrow such items as helicoil
insertion tools.
Custodial Services
Custodians work on a continuing basis to keep the NSLS clean and free of
litter. If there is a need for special attention, such as a water leak
mopped up, contact the NSLS Building
Manager during regular working hours or an Operations Coordinator from the NSLS Control Room (pager 5824) at other
times.
Cranes
The NSLS owns several styles of overhead cranes for the moving of
equipment. The VUV Ring has two overhead Bridge and Trolley cranes. Each
spans one half of the VUV floor with a capacity of 2 tons each. These are
IR controlled. The stock room Staging Area has an overhead Bridge and
Trolley crane with a 2-ton capacity that is electrically operated using a
pendant controller. Beamlines around both the VUV and X-Ray floors have
various styles of manually or electrically operated overhead cranes.
Styles include jib hoist, monorails and Manual Bridge and Trolley.
Capacities range from 100 pounds to 1 ton. As per NSLS Material Handling policies,
only NSLS "Responsible Persons" or BNL Riggers may operate Overhead Cranes.
Responsible Persons are trained and qualified in the operation of the Overhead
Cranes and Basic Rigging procedures as per the BNL Training Group policies. The
NSLS has several pieces of material handling equipment, such as dollies, pallet
jacks, and shop cranes. Use of these items is available with the assistance of
NSLS Beam Line Staff. For assistance and use of Overhead Cranes and Material
Handling Equipment, please contact the NSLS Assistant Building Manager, Bob Kiss.
Fork Lifts
The NSLS owns one forklift. Material loading and unloading must be done by NSLS Stockroom or
NSLS trained and qualified personnel. BNL has riggers who may be hired via an ILR for large jobs.
Electrical Equipment
At BNL and the NSLS, part of our commitment to maintain a safe work environment includes
ensuring that all electrical equipment to be connected to a source of electrical power is
free from reasonably foreseeable risk due to electrical hazards. If you will be bringing
any of your own electrically-powered equipment with you to the NSLS, please read the
information for users located here.
NSLS User Equipment Pool
The NSLS supports a user equipment pool. The users
can reserve the equipment in advance, if available. Terms and conditions for borrowing equipment from the pool
are described at the link above.
EXAFS Equipment Pool
The NSLS also supports an EXAFS equipment pool. Detectors, filters, foils, and
low temperature dewars are available for short-term loan. For request forms
or further information contact Syed Khalid (x7496, khalid@bnl.gov).
Survey
Beamline survey and survey instrument calibration. Note that in most
cases survey requires two individuals. Estimated hourly rate is $57.00.
Contact Robert Scheuerer X5493.
Utilities
Experimental water evaluations, pressure gage (air and water) and
flowmeter calibration. Estimated hourly rate is $60.00.
Contact Michael Schwarz X5262.
For services provided by NSLS Personnel: the hourly rates are estimates. These rates include all burdens and G&A costs based on charging a user's operating account. individuals performing the work will put the user's account number on their time card and the charges will appear monthly. The services will be prioritized and fit into the NSLS requirements by the contact person.