Subject: Cables
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 16:37:45 -0500
From: "Kaufman, Tom" <Tom.Kaufman@mts.com>
To: 'Pat Castaldo' <pcastald@atc.army.mil>
CC: "Larson, Rod" <Rod.Larson@mts.com>, "Arthur, Rick"
     <Rick.Arthur@mts.com>

Pat:
I picked up you phone mail late today.  I was at ATC yesterday and saw
the parts in your weld shop.  They really are big.

MTS is supplying a cable tray to bring the cables from the trailer over
to the loading frame.  This cable tray would be constructed the same as
what we planned for the hydraulic hoses going from the frame over to the
pump.

We have purchased some plastic molded material, that is about 1.5"
thick.  This will sit on the ground, and then we will have a plywood
cover that sits on top of this with about a 4" (or higher) space for
hoses or  cables to run.  It will be made in 4 foot sections that will
need to be laid down.  You can walk on it, but not drive over it.  Rick
Arthur is pulling these parts together, and he is currently on vacation.
If my description is not the current version, I will correct it next
week.

Thanks for the copies of the photos today.  How am I to get our MTS
"volunteers" all excited about the nice sunny installation trip---with
the snake and skunk stories????

The control console and the computer was connected up by Rod Larson this
past week.  We are getting close.

The first group of 6 actuators did not get the stroke calibrated this
week, but our staff is working over the weekend, and these are on the
hit list to get done.  It looks like we should have the first two to
connect up to the pump by mid-week.

The second group of six actuators have been assembled up to the point of
adding the servo valves, and pressure checking.
Tom Kaufman
