<\/a>First day's progress <\/div>
Spend mostly organizing\/unpacking, we assembled the gondola cart and base<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Heat gun Anne <\/div>
A staple of cryogenic operations<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Reaction wheel adjustment <\/div>
With Jamil and Ivan<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Tightening bolts <\/div>
So many bolts<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Team Toronto <\/div>
Various levels of enthusiasm<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>The land of finally-assembled-gondolas and empty boxes <\/div>
(And stacked shipping contianers, accessible by ladder)<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Theo <\/div>
With shiny\/caution curtain<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Ritually sacrificed paper unicorn <\/div>
From Ed's birthday<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Ivan takes a break <\/div>
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<\/a>Jon's so cool <\/div>
I certainly can't pull off a sideways "Spanky" hat<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Ziggy and his chin-strap-equipped hard hat <\/div>
The whole team gathers for lifting Theo onto the gondola<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Commander Ed <\/div>
Surveys the situation<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Lift hardware <\/div>
My one attempt at useful documentation<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>![\"Team](\"https:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2927\/13935812023_6a5eb42088.jpg\")
The Toronto Spider team made a trip to Princeton at the beginning of April to put the gondola back together. While Theo had been a-salt-ed by the ocean during its pointless trip to New Zealand (not to Antarctica…thanks, US congress) the gondola survived the trip just fine. Most of the rust accumulation seems to have been in our heads, as there were more hiccups that usual getting everything together successfully. We were very lucky to arrive during the very brief magical time while the Princeton highbay transitions from freezing cold to hot and humid. For this trip, I was armed (photographically) with just my Nikon FM, a 50mm lens, and a roll of Superia 400. […]<\/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\/6343"}],"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=6343"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6347,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6343\/revisions\/6347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}