Day 18 - September 19th

Those brackets for the motion maintenance jack that I introduced yesterday got tested today. A couple of the motion jacks have a small leak at the top so SimX and CAE needed to swap them. included in today's post you'll see photo's of the first jack being changed out. Seems simple, but these jacks weigh in at about 1400 lbs. As always, safety precautions must be adhered to when dealing with this kind of project or someone could end up seriously injured. I ended up chasing a part for CAE so I missed taking pictures of the reassembly, but it's just the reverse of taking it apart.

Also today the visual mirror vacuum pump was started and the mirror was being stretched and adjusted. Visual projector power was applied and the projector setup got underway.

SimX packed their tools and are getting ready to leave since all the heavy rigging and installation jobs are nearly complete.

Jean-Pilippe removes the electrical connections on a leaky jack that will be replaced

The newer-style maintenance jack has a massive bearing on top

Inserting the base of the maintenance jack into the lower bracket


The upper bushing is rotated allowing the jack to be extended into the upper bracket and take the weight of the simulator off of the motion jack


A strap is installed at the motion jack center-of-gravity so the jack will balance when lifted


After finding the "sweet spot" where the minimum amount of force is acting on the upper pin, the pin can be removed freeing the upper end of the motion jack


Oops! Ran outta gas after removing the motion jack


Adjustments being made to accessway ramp 'down' switches


One power cable to a visual projector was found to have a broken wire and had to be replaced


CAE visual specialist, Henry Ng, arrived today