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Update. Building Observatory Day.
Man this has been 4 months in the making. What a good day. No wind and some high cloud about to help keep the sting out of the sun. I had some help from mates who came down to help. I could not have done it without them. I want to especially thank Peter.M for his help.
The side panels were like wrestling with an elephant (to carry them we had to turn the panels so the curve was facing up) and the door panel was like hanging onto a tigers tail while it is running. There were lots of little things to do after we got the panels up, like installing the drive rim, which we had to drill the holes for and then do up the nuts for the bolts by hand, whilst the other person had to put tension on the drive rim and bend it slowly around a circle. That was really time consuming. Then putting the drive cover which not only covers the dome drive but also holds down the dome to the base ring. Then before we could install the shutter we had to install the rollers which prevent the shutter from coming off in the wind. All time consuming and it took us nearly 7 hours all up to lock up. Very tired now but happy this is one step toward having another imaging rig working.
Some images of the various stages of assembly including one of me putting in some bolts up the top of the dome to hold the door in section in place.
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