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Lucas AWT Construction Second Shipment of Parts The second shipment of parts arrived in July 2000. This time, moving the sections into the tunnel room was a bit more difficult. We found out that a rehab project in the room above the wind tunnel was going to pour concrete, and would have to install forms over our access hatch. We would have to get the sections in that weekend, or wait a month for the concrete work to proceed. We decided to go ahead, but the short notice meant that no small cranes were available. As a result, all of the parts had to be moved by forklift, and lowered into the room by hand-operated chainfalls. Exacerbating the problem was the limited length of the hoist chains, which meant that the sections would have to be supported in place halfway down the descent, while the hoists were reset and re-attached. In sixteen hours on Saturday, all but two of the segments were lowered into the room. Over the course of the next month, the available sections were installed and positioned. The heat exchanger, honeycomb and screens were assembled into the flow control section of the settling chamber, and the two ends of the tunnel loop were set into position. Once the access hatch was cleared by the upstairs construction, the remaining two sections (fan entrance and exit) were lowered into the room and installed. Click on images to enlarge.
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