MountingYou are welcome to use our standard mechatronics parts (plates, breadboards, brackets, kinematic mounts etc, mostly Newport type or equivalent, fasteners, tools etc). The sample table of the SAXS beamline is designed to be general purpose and is able to mount a wide variety of sample mounts and sample environments. The optical breadboard on the sample table, and a lot of our mechatronics parts, have a pattern of threaded M6 holes at 25mm pitch, as shown below. Additional optical carriers and brackets allow for many different pieces of equipment to be mounted and all of these components typically use M6 holes. If building a custom sample mount, it is recommended to include M6 through holes (6.5mm diameter holes) with a 25mm pitch to facilitate mounting on the beamline. M6 refers to Metric 6mm, this is not the same as quarter inch. 25mm pitch refers to 25mm spacing between holes, center to center. This is not the same as one inch.
Newport X48 Posts and Carriers. Many types of samples can be well mounted using Newport X48 rail and carrier system. We use this extensively at the beamline and have a good set of rails and carriers you are welcome to use. Part numbers are: rail X48-0.5, carriers either M-CXL48-80 or M-CXL48-50. Typically we use the rail as a post (i.e. a plate at one end attaches to the baseplate of the sample table, with the rail mounted vertically as a post. Carriers can be slid on/off (repeatably using a simple hardstop) and their metric hole pattern is well suited to simple adapters and plates for mounting your samples. The system works well because the square profile provides rotational constraint (for repeatable positioning in 3D, unlike round post) and a simple hardstop allows repeatable height positioning along the post. For further information and drawings of the parts, see https://www.newport.com/f/48-mm-aluminum-four-sided-optical-rails
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