The ASV team is very proud to report that we have come through the “hard yards” of Stage 1 of the GMT Restoration Project (dismantling, drawing and cataloguing), and we are now comfortably progressing into the “sweeter metres” of Stage 2 (design and construction).
With slow but steady progress; we are now at workshop #125. We have catalogued all the GMT parts, cleaned them, understood them, and are halfway through photographing, describing and documenting them; so far about 500 pages of optical, mechanical and electrical engineering plans have been drafted. Some broken castings have also been repaired.