Daily Image
26-06-2024
No strings attached
| Submitter: | Derkjan Pepping |
| Description: | Normally, our daily images tell you about fibre cables or harddisks, but not this time. This daily image tells you about old-fashioned steel cables and steel discs. After 50 years of service the lifting platform of the Dwingeloo telescope needed some attention. The steel cables and discs that lift the whole platform were worn out, so we needed to replace them. Because there was little to no information about the Sordella PG16 elevator, it was a challenge to find out what type of cable and disks were needed. Fun fact: originally this type of elevator was used in Italy to change church bells, so the frond-end of our telescope is our church bell? Eventually the company Mennens took care of it, changing out 200M of steel cable and more than 80 special made steel disks. The final work will be done this week, so the elevator can work once again hopefully for another 50 years. |
| Copyright: | D Pepping |
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