From mtang at stanford.edu  Mon Dec 15 10:02:16 2008
From: mtang at stanford.edu (Mary Tang)
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 10:02:16 -0800
Subject: Lampoly will be shut down
Message-ID: <49469BA8.8040008@stanford.edu>

Dear lampoly users --

The lampoly will be shut down today and is not likely to be up again 
until Jan. 6.  The system is running fine; however, stsetch is not as 
its turbo has failed.  And  lampoly has the same turbopump.  With 
deepest apologies for the short notice, we hope this does not seriously 
inconvenience anyone.  Please let me know if it does.

Please understand that this is not taken lightly -- we have been slowly 
standardizing the turbopumps for some time and keeping spares on hand.  
However, the spares have either been recently installed or are out on 
rebuild and not due back until next week.  This time of year is busiest 
for service companies, since many fabs shutdown in December.  Since the 
demand for stsetch is much higher than for lampoly, it was agreed this 
morning to swap turbopumps for the remaining three working days of this 
year.

Lampoly is otherwise functional, so we don't anticipate problems for 
startup in January.

Thanks for your patience ---

Your SNF staff


-- 
Mary X. Tang, Ph.D.
Stanford Nanofabrication Facility
CIS Room 136, Mail Code 4070
Stanford, CA  94305
(650)723-9980
mtang at stanford.edu
http://snf.stanford.edu