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Message: [QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 3320134, member: 27"] Some general thoughts... They are burning the midnight oil inside the dome again tonight. I saw a crane on a truck go in not long ago. I would guess they are close to finished with the preparations inside the dome at this point and are close to deflating the old roof and taking it off. That was supposed to happen in the mid March time frame, so maybe we have another week or so to got our last looks at the old roof. When it was initially installed, they started on the perimeter and finished with the diamond pieces in the middle. It will be interesting to see how they take it off. They might wait for a break in the forecast where little wind is forecast for a couple of days. The roof is very vulnerable to tears when it is deflated and one or more panels are missing. If they try to take it off with the high winds we typically get in March, they might end up with not much fabric to sell and a really big mess to clean up. There is a spiral in the yard, out in the open. But it hasn’t been fitted with a collar yet and based on its length and relatively thinness, I suspect it is a diagonal. Probably the next diagonal needed, if it was brought into the yard. I think the next vertical spiral has yet to arrive, and that is what is holding up progress on the crown truss. I bet if one arrives tomorrow, it gets fitted with a collar and positioned up top very quickly. I would guess one of the box girders in the yard is the next one to go up. I didn’t see Skylar lift anything today but it sure looks Iike she is up and ready to go. Agree they made more real estate for Walt today to allow him to move closer to Irving so he has room to operate without hitting the newly installed back stay on the southwest corner. My guess is that the next move for Walt is to put up another back stay on the southwest wall or the presumably missing vertical spiral to allow continued expansion of the crown truss along the western wall. As someone else mentioned, it looks like work is also being done on the back stays for the south east diagonal corner, which lays the groundwork for crown truss expansion on the east wall of the dome all the way to the south wall. Hopefully both cranes start working actively on expanding the crown truss tomorrow. I think they estimated it will take 2 weeks to remove the old roof. If that is true and they start work on it on March 15th, I would be shocked if the crown truss was done before the old roof was removed. My guess is that the old roof should be gone by the end of March and the crown truss completed in mid to late April. Let’s see what happens. [/QUOTE]

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