Telos is sealed

The wood that we are using for Telos is engineered lumber by Boise. Like any other wood, it has to be protected from the weather. The Lumber comes with a small protection against UV and rain but it needs to be sealed. Since the glue prevents anything from penetrating like regular wood sealant needs to, we had to find something that makes it's own shell. What we found was expensive but it looks like it will work.
We put one full coat on yesterday and put a second coat on parts until we ran out. It looks like it's going to work very well. At $100 a gallon, it better.

CAD might be done

I think I am finally done with the CAD drawing. Well, at least until something comes up. I guess I am done with the CAD drawing (sketchup) as far as all of the reconfiguring is concerned after we did some simulator work. I was really putting it off, but I found an easier way to do the work and it wasn't that bad.
On another note, we got word from our fabricator friend that most of the steel will be "donated". How cool is that! That should bring the cost down considerably.
I'm a teacher and school is out in about 2 weeks. Once the Job is out of the way I can get down to business.

Going Well

I don't have much time but, we completed the frame. It is amazing. I'm not going into too much detail but it really was great. It took a long time to complete but it was completed. All 3 members of our team were there.
Now we are trying to get the metal work completed and figure out how best to construct the rest of it. I can assure you that it will be a system of hoists, pulleys and trolleys.