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corey.gray@LIGO.ORG - posted 15:15, Tuesday 20 January 2026 (88807)
eMod Railing and Spiral Staircase Installed

(Corey Gray, Randy Thompson)

This morning (during mostly laser Hazard) I assisted Randy with work on the eMod Platform. The eMod platform is the elevated large work platform which is installed over the TCSx In-Air Table and next to BSC3.  The eMod is an additional workspace to be used for the installation of the BBSS (Big BeamSplitter Suspension) into BSC2 in the coming months.

Today, we craned up handrails and installed them in place.  After this we rolled the white powdercoated spiral staircase into the LVEA from the HiBay and then used the crane to position the stairs next to the eMod.  The stairs were attached to the eMod floor via qty 3 long 3/8-16 bolts.  (attached is a top-view photo of the installed stairs).

After this we cleaned up our area and then staged the new horizontal HEPA filter assembly which will be used later for the BBSS installation.

Images attached to this report