<\/a>Storm damage <\/div>
From earlier in the week. The collboration meeting and truck delivery schedule were disrupted by Hurricane Sandy<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Things to do during a hurricane <\/div>
If you're Bill's daughters, you make a dragon<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>The truck finally arrives <\/div>
<\/div><\/div><\/div>![Opening the "inner frame" \u2022 <a style="font-size:0.8em;" href="http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/27717602@N03\/8150525986\/" target="_blank">View on Flickr<\/a>](https:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8052\/8150525986_c16d77ea34_m.jpg "Opening the \\"inner frame\\"")
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<\/a>Opening the "inner frame" <\/div>
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<\/a>Unpacking <\/div>
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<\/a>Sasha and Jamil assembling the rolly-cart <\/div>
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<\/a>Gondola tubes <\/div>
Ready for assembly<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Meanwhile, Natalie puts the rotating star camera together <\/div>
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<\/a>Jamil attaches a side joint <\/div>
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<\/a>Attaching a reaction wheel leg <\/div>
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<\/a>Princetonians Jon and Anne try to adjust the fit <\/div>
The side joint proved to be very tricky<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>A few pieces require some serious wrestling <\/div>
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<\/a>Mega-group-action-shot <\/div>
<\/div><\/div>![Jon works on the "turtle" joint \u2022 <a style="font-size:0.8em;" href="http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/27717602@N03\/8150529192\/" target="_blank">View on Flickr<\/a>](https:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8331\/8150529192_cd1a328cc4_m.jpg "Jon works on the \\"turtle\\" joint")
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<\/a>Jon works on the "turtle" joint <\/div>
It's my favourite<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Anne inserting bolts <\/div>
There's a lot of this that needs to happen<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Obligatory professor-working-in-the-lab shot <\/div>
Bill joins in the fun<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Awkwardly supporting a bar <\/div>
I take a photograph before helping...<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Finishing the scoop <\/div>
The last little bit<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Time to tighten <\/div>
Once everything fits, all the bolts are tightened<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Team tightening <\/div>
With a total of five ratchet-wrenches of the correct size, this job goes very fast<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>The finished star cameras <\/div>
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<\/a>Testing the strength of the frame <\/div>
Jon and Anne hang out a little<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Bill goes for a swing <\/div>
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<\/a>Carrying the gondola frame onto the rolly-cart <\/div>
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<\/a>I try to wrestle the the cart supports into place <\/div>
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<\/a>![\"Bill](\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8336\/8150506643_1e1d96741a_n.jpg\" "\\"Bill")
With Hurricane Sandy over, the truck finally managed to arrive from Toronto with all the Spider gondola bits. After a day of work with the team here, we had a gondola again. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5829"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5829"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5923,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5829\/revisions\/5923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}