Assembly

Orbbject would be assembled from the top of the dome downward. This spreads out errors in construction along the bottom of the dome, instead of focusing them at the apex.

I built a small crane for assembly; the construction of the crane has its own page. You can find it here.



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Two different methods were used in assembling the dome. The first time it was put together, struts were added one at a time. The dangling angle iron was confusing to work with and struts were easily bent.

Later in the Black Rock desert, things would go a lot smoother. Instead of adding one strut at a time, we built individual pentagons and hexagons on the ground. Then we lifted the whole assembly up to the frame. We removed the redundant struts and we attached the sub-assemblies to the dome. This worked out the best, it saved a lot of time and was much safer.













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