• J.A. Clarke, D.J. Dunning, S. Leonard, A.D. Smith, N. Thompson
  STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire
• M. Surman
  STFC/DL/SRD, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire

An infra-red oscillator FEL was installed into the accelerator test facility, ALICE, at Daresbury Laboratory at the end of 2009. The FEL will be used to study energy recovery performance with a disrupted, large energy spread, beam and also to test novel FEL concepts. This paper will describe the installed hardware, the pre-alignment techniques that have been employed, the diagnostics that are being used to detect the infra-red output, and the progress with commissioning of the FEL itself.