Hello everybody,
before I get to my day-to-day business, I would like to remind the beginning of the
Shuttle missions and
Columbia's launch to her maiden flight
STS-1 with which NASA's legendary Shuttle program began today
40 years ago.
Source: NASA
And thus back to the present. Today was the turn of the
6th Crawler chain, of course (almost) again in the familiar and proven sequence of steps.
- Deburring of the
Track shoes
- Pair formation and pre-drilling of the
Pin Lugs
- Pinning the pairs (deburring of the pins)
For a change, I proceeded a little differently this time than before and have connected these pairs by building
Groups of four,
which I've then connected to each other to
Groups of 16,
from which in the last step finally the
6th Chain was formed.
So now it means to clench the teeth only still twice,
to finally holding a complete set of
8 Chains in my hands.
