Sunday 4 May 2008

Catch-up Blogs - 20th - 26th April

After my accident when I was attacked by the front hub (who left that hanging from the roof?) and saw stars for a few days, I finally remebered that I am supposed to be writing a blog.

So, where were we?

Having painted the front hubs and finished building the suspension units we decided the chassis would be easier to work on if it was raised up a couple of feet. A hunt round the garage, or CMF (Component Manufacturing Facility) produced a lot of old wood and a frame was fairly quickly built. Continuing our NASA analogy it was named "The Crawler" and casters added to make it movable.

Then it was mounted on the CTV (Crawler Transportation Vehicle) and taken to the VAB.

Before the Rocket could be positioned, the floor panel had to be marked out ready for cutting back at the CMF.

Here we see an engineer skillfully marking the panel..