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[QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 3286637, member: 27"]
I would think when the last piece of the crown truss is put in place and bolted down, the pressure on the back stays will be fully or almost fully alleviated.  But this won't happen until the crown truss is 100% complete.  The force holding the crown truss up will then be distributed completely on the spiral supports, instead of partly on the spirals and partly on the back stays.

But I am no architect or physicist.  I could be very wrong.

Noticed that whatever Skylar was attached to was released a while ago.  It looks like the gap will remain open at least until tomorrow.  Agree that the focus has switched to getting that west wall back stay in place and 100% secured.  I assume similar activity is going on over on the east wall but I haven't been over there in months and have no idea if they have even begun to install the back stay over there.  I don't see cranes peeking over the top of the roof but from the angle of the Lawrinson camera, you probably can't see them if they were there anyway.  
 
There was a lot of activity on the east wall a couple of weeks ago.  We couldn't see what was going on but I am going to assume it was the installation of the back stay over there.
 
If someone is in the area of the Dome and can check on the status of the east wall (is there a back stay up over there?), it would be awesome.  I will try and check it out tomorrow before the NC State game but I come from the Standart Lot and it is way out of my way to get over there.  For some reason I cannot fathom, my wife is not as enthused about tracking the status of this project as I am.
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