Tuesday, April 5, 2011

TQCM Mount

Just a small side project at work that took about a week to finish:





This is a simple mounting system for a TQCM (Thermoelectric Quartz Crystal Microbalance). It is meant to interact with the systems inside of one of our huge chambers, and there was a very tight space into which we could fit it. The main goal was to have variable adjustment in all three coordinate systems. Also, The TQCM is mounted through its heat sink, so we needed to use a material for the mount that had a high thermal conductivity yet strong enough to support the weight (went with 6063 Aluminum).

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