In addition to Jonas, Lionel and I, Dave Pederson joined us at the transmitter site for devotions this morning.

After taking care of some emails, Jonas and I began to install some of the capacitors into the phasor room.  All the switches and inductors (coils) are in place.  Installing the capacitors involves careful review of photos taken at the Kintronic factory to insure that the special plates on the top of the capacitors are oriented correctly.  If not correct, the connecting pipes also supplied by Kintronic will not fit and the capacitor will have to be remounted with the correct orientation.  We were able to get about 10 of an estimated 40 capacitors mounted before lunch.

Each capacitor that has one side grounded has a ground strap attached to its mounting plate.  As we were installing the last three (of the 10) this morning, we noticed that there would be problems connecting these particular ground straps without some modifications, so Jonas sent an email to Kintronic for their input.

Kintronic had completely preassembled the phasor on the floor of their factory in Tennessee on top of a template made of masonite 4X8 foot X 1/4″ panels laid on their floor.  The holes for mounting all the components were marked on the template, which was then laid on the phasor room floor here.  From the template all the holes can be accurately drilled.  It is a really neat way of making sure everything is located exactly as it was at the factory, so all the interconnecting pipes will hopefully fit properly.

Just before lunch, we received word that the contents of the container received yesterday had cleared customs (without their even opening it!) and that we could cut the seal to unload it.

As usual, I drove home for lunch.  Upon arrival at the duplex, I notced a pile of branches laying by the sidewalk.  We had borrowed a pair of lopper shears from TWR to trim branches off a small tree that was starting to obstruct the door of our side of the duplex and also prevented the cleaning of one of the windows.  Virginia had done a neat job taking care of the problem!  When we asked about getting rid of the branches, we were told to dump them on TWR’s vacant lot between our duplex and the Pederson’s house.  That lot is quite overgrown and the trimmings will not even be noticed.

After lunch and a 15 minute nap (with my feet raised), I returned to the site.

The dummy load completely filled the container from side to side and was within 10″ of the top of this extra tall container.  The tractor was hooked onto the dummy load to drag it out of the container far enough to unload the remaining items.  From this location, a crane will lift the dummy load high enough to clear the two AC condensing units and the generator to place it onto its concrete foundation.  The crane can not come until next week.

Now that the dummy load was out, we found there were 2X6s screwed to the floor on the other side with no sign of damage to them.  The only thing we can figure out is that, when the dummy load was pushed into the container, it was not quite pushed in all the way [18″ short of the inside blocking].  The outside 2X6s were then screwed into place.  Somehow, during transport, the dummy load gently slide up against the inside 2X6s and left the 18″ gap we saw upon opening the container.  We are grateful that no damage occurred.

With the dummy load out, the heavy work began!  First there was a large pallet with relatively light items.  The pallet was too long for the tractor to lift with its ‘forks’, so the items had to be unloaded by hand.  Next was a small pallet with about fifteen 50 pound bags of special cement for laying tiles.  The weight was too much for the tractor to lift, so these had to be unloaded by hand.  Next was a small pallet with about 20 boxes of floor tiles.  These boxes weighed 47 pounds each and again had to be unloaded by hand.  The next pallet was a little bigger and had about 40 boxes of floor tiles and, of course, had to be unloaded by hand.  All these were loaded onto the mission dump truck and had to be unloaded inside the building.  We had our ‘workout’ today–mostly inside a container with the sun shining on it!
The last item was a 6 foot diameter reel of coax cable.  The weight written on the side was just under 500 pounds, but I was able to rotate it 90 degrees and roll it out of the container while Lionel and Jonas unloaded the tiles in the building.

We had just enough time to sweep out the container and close its doors before quitting time.  Before leaving, an email had already been received from Kintronic with a possible solution to the problem with the ground straps this morning.

Virginia had been asked to help with preparing a dessert for next week, so when I got home, we drove into town to Van der Tweel supermarket to pick up ingredients for making the dessert.  After getting back to the duplex, both of us were ready for a cool-down swim at Bachelor Beach.  This time I did some snorkeling for the first time on this trip.  Saw a few fish, but will need to swim further out to the coral to see more.  Maybe next time?  This is Virginia’s second swim on this trip and she really appreciated the cool-down!  She’ll probably want more like it during the next 10 days.

For supper this evening we had leftover chicken lo mein from last night and salad with grated carrots.  Later in the evening, we had a scoop of vanilla ice cream with chocolate topping on top of a small ‘sugar waffle‘ .  We bought a small package of them when at the store.