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Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 20:08:50 -0500
From: ten2000@soundinternet.com
To: rod.larson@mts.com

Hi Rod,

All went well on Monday. We did tuning on the table
with the mass. It has some kind of nasty resosnances
in it. The table and mass did not read the correct
weight when measured by the pressure cells. I checked
the pressure cal and it was OK. I looked in table.dat
and found the vfmax to be 444 k-newtons instead of 780
k-newtons. I changed the file and the readout agrees
with the estimated weight. Today we started to do the
test with the 30 ton mass. We got to 2 hz at about
1 g and the mass started to slide around on the table.
It looks to me that they only have about half as many
bolts as needed to hold it in place. They are adding
more bolts and re-torqueing them. I hope the valves
are going well there. I really didn't need anything,
I just thought I would let you know what is going on.
I just turned on CNN, it looks like the crazy's are
at it again in New York.

Best Regards,
Terry
