Igor, Interesting series of photos. How much did the box weigh? Regards, Bob S.
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 8:37 AM, Igor Roshchin<[email protected]> wrote: > > This post (not photos) is inspired by Christine's "Construction" series. > > 3 years ago I purchased a large scientific instrument > ("X-ray diffractometer") that came with a large water chiller installed. > The chiller was supposed to be installed inside the building "core", > behind the wall from the room for th system. > The company provided the specs for it, and we checked that it would make > it through a narrow passage to the core. > Close to delivery, it turned out that they provided the specs for > a wrong model of the chiller. The chiller we were to receive > wouldn't make it through. > > That core used to have the second, much wider, entrance, but because > of the construction of the building addition, access to that entrance > was removed and the floor around that door was removed - that > was the wall where the new part of the building would be attached. > > So, the solution was to lift the chiller up and into the former door > hole using the construction crane. Well, the story was captured > in this gallery: > http://www.komkon.org/~igor/PHOTOS/FlyingChiller/ > The last two shots show the X-ray diffractometer: the grey-colored > enclosure with glass doors and the grey-colored generator next to it. > > I don't think that this gallery carries much of "artistic" value, > it's mostly a "technical" photo-reportage. > All shots were preserved including the sub-optimum ones - for > completeness of the story. > > ... but all and any comments are welcome. > > Igor > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
