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Daniel Grass - posted 15:30, Tuesday 12 November 2024 (11981)
Ideas for Tipping over Bend Cube with only 3 1/4-20 lifting points

We need to tip over the Holometer Bend Cubes to install the custom tapped CF Flanges onto their (eventual) bases. However, one of the bend cubes has a screw broken off into its 1/4-20 lifting point, so we can only use 3 of its lifting points. Unfortunately, the unusable lifting point is at the corner of two bellows, so when we use 2 lifting points to tip over the cube, a bellows would get in the way. We will have to remove one of these bellows anyway, but now we will have to do it sooner. I propose using a blank 10" CF Flange and making this Holometer Bend Cube the Power Recycling Cube so that we won't ever have to move it if everything goes well.