23 August 2005: frame for reflector (horn-1 in the background)

30 August 2005: Reflector assembly starts

30 August 2005: Reflector assembly

30 August 2005: Reflector assembly

20 September 2005: inside the reflector (one spider holding the inner conductor in place)

26 September 2005: K. Tanaka visits the horn / reflector assembly lab

20 September 2005: Cutting the glass rings from a plate (water-sand jet)

20 September 2005: Cutting the glass rings from a plate - removing the ring

October 2005: GRAFOIL seal cut from plate

Assembly of the GRAFOIL seal for the reflector

Assembly of the GRAFOIL seal for the reflector

Assembly of the GRAFOIL seal for the reflector

Glass-ring placed on GRAFOIL seal

Glass-ring placed on GRAFOIL seal

Glass-ring placed on GRAFOIL seal

Fixing ARCLEX insulators in place

Quality control

Spacers made one by one "to fit"

Controlling the pressure with BELLEVILLE washers (in the final configuration, 6 of these were used)

Installing the assembled "sandwich" at the reflector exit side (connection of striplines)

Installing the assembled "sandwich" at the reflector exit side (connection of striplines)

Reflector connection side: ready

Reflector beam-entrance side (short-circuit side): waiting for the final plate to connect inner and outer conductor)

Reflector: inside the inner conductor

17 November 2005: Reflector installed on test bench in BA7

18 November 2005: 180 kA double pulses for reflector tests

18 November 2005: Reflector test successful

30 November 2005: double valve system to switch cooling circuit on reflector