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Message: [QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 3435953, member: 27"] Update: You can see that the cable holding a number of the roof cables to the crown truss is no longer connected to the end of the roof cable (where the connector is) but much more toward the center of the roof. My guess is that new connections are being made to the junction is between the hard shell and PTFE parts of the roof meet. Note the slack in some of the roof cables near the crown truss. That will allow the roof cables to get eventually get connected to the tension ring, where they ultimately belong. Haven't seen any of the roof cables get connected to the ring yet. Expecting it will start to happen shortly. There is a lot of activity connecting supports to the junctions on the PTFE portion of the roof. The supports are being connected to a second cable that runs parallel to the roof cable, but above it. This aligns the supports vertically, and sets the stage for later, when they will use the supports to hold steel arcs in places. Note that the supports are longer in the middle of the roof and shorter as you get closer to the edges of the PTFE honeycomb. I drew a simple diagram to try and show this. You can also see it looking at the interior of the roof from the one drawing we have of the new roof from the inside. [ATTACH type="full"]183452[/ATTACH] This will give the PTFE section of the roof a sloped, dome like appearance. Pretty sure the roof cables themselves are going to be horizontal for the PTFE section of the roof. Getting those arcs up and securely installed seems like it will be one of the most daunting and dangerous tasks remaining. They have to be heavy and getting them in place that high has to be a challenge. Haven't seen any arcs being delivered yet. Can't believe they will do much more on the PTFE part of the roof than continue to get the supports in place and aligned until the roof cables are connected to the tension ring. Until that happens, they can't put much of a load on the cables. Are the 2 big red cranes that have just sat around for a week or so going to focus on getting the arcs in place? Maybe some of the steel for the hard shell part of the roof as well? They have hung a bunch more of the supports below where the hard shell part of the roof will be installed. It looks like they are in place around the whole perimeter of the roof now. Kind of surprised they aren't working weekends yet. They must be confident they are in good shape, or lack of materials must be holding them back. If it is materials, I don't think it is the steel for the hard shell part of the roof, which has been in Syracuse for weeks now. Regarding the arcs, they had a lot of them finished in Texas weeks ago as well. And we have reports that indicate the PTFE material has been on site for around a month, maybe longer. [/QUOTE]

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