Finally, the man who knew it all was Karl Brown, who referred Klaisner to Roger Miller and Bill Herrmannsfeldt. Bill had designed an injector for this tunnel in the beginning. He went as far as the detailed design of the bending magnets before the idea was dropped for lack of funds. Klaisner's idea was that we should dig a trench along side the gallery for the off-axis injector. Historians are often amazed at the wisdom of the founding fathers of the Constitution, in that the document has lasted for two hundred years.
Engineers feel the same way about the linac designers.
The importance of this discovery is operational, according to Klaisner. Sitting above the entry into the access tunnel is the Plant Engineering instrument shop. Folks there have worked around the vents and manhole covers and the doorway for years without realizing what they were. Once Klaisner found the entryway, Burl Skaggs and Frank Brenkus lifted the creaky door while Klaisner peered down thirty feet. Bill Myers arranged to rig the hatch open, turn on the ventilation fan and find the original hand rails.