Monday, November 21, 2011

Mounting the inlet line

Today we mounted the inlet for the instrument onto a tower.  The tough part was that the tower and instrument were on two different buildings.  We had been thinking about the solution to this for quite awhile but it took some work to implement.  Our idea was to string a wire guy line across the building and securely clamp that down on either end.  Then we mounted the inlet to the guy wire and tied it down every few feet.  We then ran the line down the side of the building, through a hole drilled into the side and into the instrument room.  This was the most fun I've had so far.  We had to be really creative to figure out how to get this line across and it worked out really well in the end.  So there's an inlet!



Mounting the inlet onto the tower.  So scary.  



Clamping things down to the building.

Laura, clamping the inlet to the guy wire before it was hoisted across.

The newly assembled inlet line.


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