Juan loves gluing carbon fiber tubes so much, that he makes sure he gets to keep on doing it. Yesterday he, Jamil, and Steve (our last remaining, though soon-to-depart, summer undergrad) started gluing what will eventually become Spider’s sun shields.
This time they’re doing one end of the first series of tubes. The other end will be done with the structure (partially) assembled to ensure a good fit.
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- The process: Juan glues the tubes
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- The process: Jamil hands off an insert that he’s glued
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- The process: Juan inserts the insert
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- The process: Steve helps (and learns!)
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- More insertion
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- Even more. Juan seems to like flipping around for a lot of vantage points
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- Jamil glues the next insert
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- And takes a moment to marvel at its wonder
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- “Wait, there’s one more!”
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- Glue, glue, and more glue
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- A bunch of glued ends from earlier in the morning
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- The finished tubes are taped upright to cure
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- Excess goop is cleaned off
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- Steve takes stock, and examines the result
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- Juan Wants You!
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- All this took place under the watchful gaze of our sun shield misadventure: the Wall of Doomâ„¢
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- More tubes. So many more tubes. (Fun times ahead!)
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