Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Early Notes to all MidPac Folk

Steel Bridge assembly will be held in the lower level of the Mondavi Center Parking Structure (ie no "damn thermal expansion!"). It's a pretty long structure, there's some natural light that will peak through, but in the event of cloudy weather we're prepared to bring in external lights and shine the ceiling so everybody can see just fine. There's a slight grade to the structure, and the floor is a kind of lightly textured concrete...IT ISN'T POLISHED, so don't worry about piers slipping all over the place like they did at Salt Lake City 2 years ago.

We'll have 2 loading stations with your basic dial gauges doing the measuring. As far as we know 2 weight sets will be there as well, one from Santa Clara, one from Chico...is this correct? Isn't there one from Big Sac as well? Oh well, There Will Be Libres.

Our shop will be open the night before the meeting and before the competition to make as many repairs or last minute MIG or TIG welds as is necessary. We've also got grinders, chisels, a shitty drill press and various fab tools to help you get everything ready. Feel free, if you're running a little behind, to come out and make it on time and use the shop if you need last minute things done before aesthetics judging.

From sources at UCD ASCE, the judging panel may be a little light, but the head judge knows her stuff, so there shouldn't be any major foul ups...so long as we...uh...triple check the scoring eh?

Hope all you in NorCal and Reno can make it, we're looking forward to having everybody on campus for a fun time win or lose!

Word of the warning...Davis cops are a bit stalkish at times, take it easy on the hooch in the Nalgene bottle...or at least, be VERY downlowsy about it.

Hoping the builds are coming to a close very soon!!!

Let's all get stoked in Davis!!!

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