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Message: [QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 3419479, member: 27"] A documentary on the dome renovation would make for good content on the ACC network, Speaking of which, are we the last school in the conference to have a documentary developed for the network? Hoping to see more specific Syracuse content coming on line soon. I will just add on to this to do an update on progress on the project, as I see it. It looks like they have heavy cables connected from the crown truss girder junctions (above each column) hanging down. It appears extend all the way to the dome floor. These cables are in place on the south, southeast, east and northeast walls. That constitutes about half of the columns. I think the only column skipped is the way with the lightning rod in the middle of the east wall. I assume that is not a coincidence and the junctions with the lightning rods will not be getting cables. I don't see blue platforms on those junctions either...can't see how they can get the cables connected without a platform. Given the cables appear to extend to the dome floor, I am assuming they will be used to pull the cable net up and hold it in place to serve as a major part of the foundation for the new roof. As [USER=469]CuseLegacy[/USER] foretold months ago, they are surely going to pull the whole thing up at the same time. They got these cables up last week. If they get the rest up at the same pace, I think they will be finished with installing these cables towards the end of this week. Then we might have everything in place to bring the cable net up sometime next week, which roughly corresponds (I think) with the timeline [USER=35]TexanMark[/USER] and [USER=587]retro44[/USER] heard from insiders. There appears to be a big dark colored object up on the crown truss that each of the cables is connected to. What are these? Could they be hydraulic jacks? It is hard to see them but they don't look like the pistons we see in the London video. I suspect they are the dark objects with wings I have posted photos of in the last couple of weeks. I am going to guess they are since no dark objects like these appear in any of the drawings we have seen of the exterior of the new roof. As an aside, it looks like all of the old platforms that were hung under the crown truss are now down. [/QUOTE]

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