The January Surge

When the steel gets in we will go to work immediately on the deck. We'll need rough cuts, about 1/8" over, then we will precision mill those lengths in the student shop during open hours. Anything light wall can be wheeled, which we can do in the lab, and even more so if we manage to find an Ellis for our own use. If anybody has a saw capable of cutting steel in a variety of forms, i.e. bar, tube, rod etc. then bring it in so we can get use out of it.

Dovetail programming and production will be the highest priority as they set the standard for our connection stiffness, which in turn equals our bridge stiffness. Deck will come first, the the super stuff, then the LT stuff. While the programming and all that other jazz goes down, we do need to cut a shiteload of blanks and precision mill them down. Lengths to rough cut are +1/8" actual size.

In the meantime, while the major shipment is being waited on -- we need to make special tools for the practice campaign. These tools will mimic our 2007 assembly procedure and hopefully, might even be modifiable for our campaign this year. The practice will help new construction team members get familiar with DT's, the site, etc. etc. Need to use our time wisely, no breaks, we need to work and get it done, quickly and precisely.


Go Ags!