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Saturday, May 21, 2005 #

First assembly!

This morning, all the paint on the struts had dried and the dome was ready for its first assembly. This was hard work: we discovered that the bolts I got are a little on the short side; lots of twisting and squeezing was necessary to get all the flattened strut ends flat enough to be able to fit the nut on the bolt. It was slow going and we ended up assembling only the top four dome layers (out of six). I'll have to buy longer bolts...

Still, the result looks very nice and I'm quite happy with it! There was plenty of interest from the neighbours, especially the younger ones.

I'm confident now that assembling the entire dome will not cause any serious problems. So now it's time to get to work on the next project: the dome tent cover.