Topic: Fun week planned!

[idolminds]

Or not. We have another system move. On the plus side, we're moving it "down the hall" from one room to the other (note they haven't told us how far apart these rooms are). Unfortunately this is a 3 headed system...so we will have to take all 3 heads off the system and move them in crates (which my dad is currently building). Once everything is in the other room we will have to hook everything back up.

Apparently this is only temporary while they remodel the original room and will eventually want us to move it back. Insert expletives.

So this will be at least a 2 day project, more likely 3 days. One to tear it down, one to move it and hook it back up, and maybe a 3rd day in case we don't get it all hooked up on day 2.

I'll bring my camera and see if I can get some pics of the whole ordeal. Too bad there wont be mail till Wednesday or I'd be able to use my wide angle lens.

[Antares]

Hopefully you'll be lucky and this hospital will have nice wide hallways that are tiled not carpeted.

[idolminds]

Thats what I'm hoping for.

[Quemaqua]

Maybe with some hot nurses, too.

[Cools]

Sounds like FUN!

Get lots of ze pics with ze new wide angle.

This week is going to be decent for me. Not a lot of urgent work so I have some time to do some reading and learning. Also my new A/V gear should be arriving any day so I'll have fun playing around with it.

[idolminds]

Eh, not a lot of pics today. Nothing terribly interesting to shoot. We are being helped by 2 guys which is nice. They pretty much removed the heads for us (under our instructions such as "Dont cut that, it costs more than your car"). So by the time we get there tomorrow all the heads will be removed. The table is already up on casters to wheel behind the system. So far so good.

The iffy part now is the floor. See, the floor has to be exactly level. Most floors arent, so what they do is they pour an epoxy type stuff on the floor surface itself (inside guides where its needed, not the entire floor). The top surface of the epoxy will level itself and everything gets mounted on that. The problem is usually you pour the floor (as they say) and let it cure for 2 or 3 days. They poured tonight and want us to mount it tomorrow. We'll see how it goes. It'll either work or it'll be a short day for us as they repour the floor and we wait 2 days to go back.

[idolminds]

Today was interesting. Everything started off fine. The heads were all off, we put the brackets on the gantry, jacked it up, and put the casters on. We had more than enough people to push the thing and it was only down the hall. The floor epoxy was set (or so it seemed...we'll see). Everything was fine.

There were 2 guys there and this is more or less considered "their project". The gantry needs to be bolted to the floor. Standard procedure, keeps it from falling over and killing someone. It was their job to drill the holes, so we went to lunch/dinner. Came back and...problem.

The front holes drilled fine. The back holes...they hit metal. This can happen. Sometimes you just hit rebar. There are alternate holes...moved over and offset if such a thing happens. Drill there...more metal.

They were supposed to do a survey of the room. You get the hospital engineers and stuff in there and they are supposed to check everything. What *are* we drilling into? A support beam? A pipe? We dont know. Also, the floor sounds kind of...hallow. We arent really sure if the floor can support the weight of the thing now. Its kind of dangerous.

So right now the project is on hold. Tomorrow they are getting guys out to check the room. If we are lucky it'll just be a steel plate and we can drill through it. If not....bolt the wheels back on, move the gantry again, rip up and repour the floor in a new location, then we can get back on track. Most likely...option 2. It'll probably bleed over into next week, since the mover guys have another job in Virginia they need to do in the mean time.

[Quemaqua]

Sounds like idiots.  Why do they seem to run *everything*?

[idolminds]

I should say this is generally rare (my dad has installed several systems and used to work for these companies). Its just....why does it have to happen to us? We could have had the heads all back on by tomorrow, most of the electronics as well. We could have been done completely by friday.