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Originally Posted by Al Skierkiewicz

Sounds like the elevation lead screw or mount let go. Never a good thing. They need it to stow the dish so they can drive. Someone needs to take a picture for the archives though.

I took two pics with my blakcberry camera but I can't see too well up there, probably the elevation lead screw because the whole thing seems mounted normally from what I can see, they have a second truck coming hopefully with an engineer on board, that stuff up there looks rather heavy to move around though.

They were just opening up the dish and I heard this loud "chunk" in the background as I was filming this C17 take off and then I saw two guys on the roof of the truck securing the dish with rope.

Stowing it will be a problem because even if they can safely get their paws on the thing it looks heavy, I wouldn't want to be up there with no safety railing that close to the edge.

I remember five years ago our truck failed on the story of the year, 15 minutes to air, broken fan belt on generator, I took a peek and saw many cracks in the belt and knew right away that the price you pay for not doing minor maintenance.

I'm sure the cold weather affects the parts up there as well.

Fyi, I did offer to help the competition as I have lots of tools on board but it's way too heavy for us to mess with right now. They were rather interested in my FTP system on the seat of my truck though

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