 Among recent products of the BIPM's mechanical workshop we highlight a large number of components for:
the BIPM-NMIA-NRC calculable capacitor; and
the BIPM watt balance.
In addition the workshop has successfully contributed to:
the manufacture of a number of Pt-Ir prototypes and stainless steel mass standards;
the completion and installation of a new mass comparator at the BIPM; and
the manufacture of complex detectors in graphite for the Ionizing Radiation Department.
The BIPM workshop also produced the precision equipment necessary for:
the flexure-strip balance FB-2 used by the Mass Department;
the torsion balance used for the determination of the gravitational constant G.
For further details about the BIPM's scientific work, see http://www.bipm.org/en/scientific/.
Equipment for precision machining
Machining a vacuum vessel for the Department of Ionizing Radiation (study of the effect of pressure on ionization chambers) Material :PMMA
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