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Meyer Tool shipped this liquid helium cold box to Fermilab in 2019. When every project is different, everything needs a different shipping strategy. When we shipped this cryogenic coldbox for Fermilab, all of the vacuum and cryogenic flanges had to be sealed and protected for freight shipping. We hired rigging contractors to move it carefully from our shop to a flatbed for same-day delivery to Fermilab in Batavia, IL!

This monstrous vacuum chamber houses the cryomodule for the ATLAS Intensity Upgrade at Argonne National Lab. When the strength of the walls isn’t enough to stop a vacuum vessel from collapsing, it’s time to design with stiffeners! Designing and fabricating stiffeners has been part of Meyer Tool's specialty for over 50 years.

We built this custom large vacuum vessel a few years ago for physics researchers at Princeton University. Large or small, Meyer Tool has been working at the cutting edge of vacuum technology for over 50 years!

This is one of several liquid helium distribution cold boxes that Meyer Tool built. In this picture it's being installed in its place in the LHC tunnel and getting ready to connect to the rest of the cryogenic system. Thank you to CERN media for the image.

These vacuum vessel and feedthrough assemblies are now part of the LHC experiment at CERN. Some of the jobs that come through Meyer Tool are simple and quick. Others are extremely complex and take years to fabricate from beginning to end. Managing the subassemblies in the meantime requires a quality system that keeps track of every part and assembly, every step of the way.

Throwback Thursday Posts

#Throwback to this cryogenic system that we made for a cryogenics company in the early 90s. Note the large aluminum heat exchanger above and long vacuum vessel below. This series of vessels and cryogenic pressure piping became part of a helium liquefier.

This week’s #ThrowbackThursday is the chassis and booster system for a Star Wars-inspired speeder bike prototype! Just kidding, we don’t remember which project this system is from. What sci-fi technology do you think it looks like? Let us know in the comments!

#ThrowbackThursday to this current lead assembly that Meyer Tool made for the Superconducting Super Collider back in the early 90s. The large coils in the center are solid stainless steel rods in a flexible hose. This configuration was designed to protect the magnets from overheating in the case of a quench (sudden loss of superconductivity) in the magnets. By heating the steel and boiling off the liquid helium in the hose, the assembly would prevent thermal damage to the superconducting wires.

This week’s Throwback Thursday is a high-precision machined and welded leveling system that Meyer Tool built for the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Lab. Over the course of several years, we produced many of these systems for leveling the vacuum chambers for the APS beamline.

BREAKING NEWS: UFO SIGHTED NEAR DOWNTOWN OAK LAWN. FBI, MAYOR REPORT “VERY COOL.” Just kidding, this is a giant vacuum-insulated test chamber that Meyer Tool built in the 1990’s for testing superconducting magnets. It is now in use at Fermilab as part of the Mu2E project. These action shots show the inner and outer shells being assembled in our parking lot with a crane. #ThrowbackThursday #TBT

#Throwback this week to an RF cryostat that we built for the Superconducting Supercollider back in the 90s. You can see the copper heat shield and liquid helium piping inside of the stainless steel vacuum jacket. Though the accelerator was never finished, there was still quite a bit of cool vacuum and cryogenic technology that went into it!

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