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Shipment arrived last Monday. All carried up two flights of stairs. managed to get to the telescopes today. Looking good - no evidence of any problems so far.
Unpacked the SDM. Several layers of tough bubble wrap, then a cardboard layer then a few more layers of bubble wrap. It is looking fine. I had strapped the mirror box to the rocker box. I packed the mirror separately in the GSO supplied box and I'm sure it is fine. Upper tube assembly also looks good in its custom box (to which I added additional packing).
I zeroed the temperature and humidity gauges before packing. Today it read maximum temperature 40.8 deg C and maximum humidity 70%. From inside several layers of packing. So far all the electronics that I shipped is working well - TV, DVD players and 5.1 sound system are working well, as are the washing machine, dryer, microwave etc.
Now I need a car - hopefully it will be available early this week before the next round of holidays in Israel. I've been here 6 weeks - this will be the fourth holiday day or days since I arrived.
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