Column & Collar MCP Support Concept

Jason McPhateWeekly Mechanical Telecon

25 June 2010

J. McPhate – Weekly Mechanical Telecon 2

Column & Collar Assembly

25 June 2010

J. McPhate – Weekly Mechanical Telecon 3

Exploded View

25 June 2010

•Columns attached to anode, run full height of tube•Bottom collar slips around column, 6mm tall•MCP’s have matched holes to slip over column for alignment•Middle collar between MCP’s, maintains MCP gap of 0.5mm•Top MCP held down by metal retainer clips on each column

•Window support by outside wall and columns (collars have no bearing)•Collars do all the anode to MCP and MCP to MCP gap definition