<\/a>Drilling the floor mounts... <\/div>
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People are afraid that bricks on the reaction wheel will fly off when it spins really fast, then hit them in the gut. This provides comfort, and maybe even some protection<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Interesting blackboard observation <\/div>
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<\/a>Cable routing <\/div>
Much prettier than in Toronto. Partly because we were neater, and partly because there's no more chicken wire<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Crane controls <\/div>
Helps show why only trained personnel operate this crane<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Anti-rotation device <\/div>
High above, the beginnings of the pivot anti-rotation device are installed. Named "broomstick" after the alternate solution of duct taping a broomstick across<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Ziggy holds the fill tube <\/div>
During a liquid helium fill<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Jon operates the dewar end <\/div>
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<\/a>And Jamil gets to operate the cryostat end <\/div>
You can see he's excited for his first helium fill<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Solder party - with Spider T-shirts! <\/div>
This kept us occuied for several days<\/div><\/div>
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After putting the gondola together, we spent some time preparing for electrical integration with the cryostat. Mostly this took the form of a "solder party" in which we made cables for several days. There are some other random bits too. These photos sat on my computer for a little while before I got around to posting them. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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\/5898"}],"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=5898"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5902,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5898\/revisions\/5902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}