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pllmonster · March 30th, 2012, 01:36 PM

Im sure you will sort it out shaft, if you need any advice or pll guidance i will be back maybein june.... Will you have much up by then or maybe finished according to the programme!!!!!! by our MC friends, tell Jus I found his pencil.

bertyboy · March 30th, 2012, 03:59 PM

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Originally Posted by pllmonster

Im sure you will sort it out shaft, if you need any advice or pll guidance i will be back maybein june.... Will you have much up by then or maybe finished according to the programme!!!!!! by our MC friends, tell Jus I found his pencil.

PLL guidance? Now, I don't really understand these things much, but how do you use phase-locked loops in a building?

ffinybryn · March 30th, 2012, 04:46 PM

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Originally Posted by bertyboy

PLL guidance? Now, I don't really understand these things much, but how do you use phase-locked loops in a building?

Plumb, Line and Level. But I'm still trying to decode MC. Justin is on a course.

thedurringtondoctor · March 30th, 2012, 04:47 PM

Think it was all meant to be in a private message on Facebook!

aggers · March 30th, 2012, 06:33 PM

a simple no would have been fine...still put me in me place....keep me questions to myself next time.

Bpool86 · March 30th, 2012, 07:36 PM

Does anyone know if they sorted those beams out where they were not fully tightened and they sagged? Or why it was/is like that?

bertyboy · March 30th, 2012, 07:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Bpool86

Does anyone know if they sorted those beams out where they were not fully tightened and they sagged? Or why it was/is like that?

They look to be tight and straight now!

stevekeiretsu · March 31st, 2012, 04:57 AM

checking my flickr stats and followed a trail from the referrers to the discovery that apparently the official (?) leadenhall twitter account posted my photo https://twitter.com/#!/LeadenhallTow...02413506850817 - strangely honoured

Wildecat · March 31st, 2012, 12:09 PM

And mine!

Thanks also Medenine for doing that time-lapse

cnapan · March 31st, 2012, 06:13 PM

Anyone who frayed the ends of their fingers making meccano models as a kid like I did surely will enjoy watching this building going up.

There's something rather dull about concrete cores. I love the idea of a building made out of girders!

The more of the structure that shows through, the better! Bolts and all.

jamiefearon · March 31st, 2012, 07:16 PM

How can they make sure they can get the angles of the front diagonals exactly right so that they will meet at the top. I mean even if they are a fraction of a second out on the angle then it won't meet with the perpendicular at the top.

Will they maybe use GPS?

shard97 · March 31st, 2012, 07:25 PM

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Originally Posted by jamiefearon

How can they make sure they can get the angles of the front diagonals exactly right so that they will meet at the top. I mean even if they are a fraction of a second out on the angle then it won't meet with the perpendicular at the top.

Will they maybe use GPS?

Fraction of a second, don't you mean centimeter

*Nurse* · March 31st, 2012, 07:25 PM

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Originally Posted by jamiefearon

How can they make sure they can get the angles of the front diagonals exactly right so that they will meet at the top. I mean even if they are a fraction of a second out on the angle then it won't meet with the perpendicular at the top.

Will they maybe use GPS?

Even military-grade GPS is only accurate to the nearest metre. The columns are bolted into those pre-formed Y shapes we saw go up initially, aren't they? Steel is very flexible anyway. If they get the lengths of the diagonal and uprights right then the angles are fixed and they can't go wrong.

jamiefearon · March 31st, 2012, 07:39 PM

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Originally Posted by shard97

Fraction of a second, don't you mean centimeter

Degrees can be subdivided - One degree can be subdivided into 60 minutes and a minute into 60 seconds.

Sounds confusing because it has the same words as time, but that's the way it is.

edtealdi · March 31st, 2012, 07:40 PM

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Originally Posted by shard97

Fraction of a second, don't you mean centimeter

No, he means second. Second of a degree

Palimpsest · March 31st, 2012, 07:42 PM

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Originally Posted by shard97

Fraction of a second, don't you mean centimeter

http://zonalandeducation.com/mmts/tr.../degMinSec.htm

BeestonLad · March 31st, 2012, 10:38 PM

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Originally Posted by jamiefearon

How can they make sure they can get the angles of the front diagonals exactly right so that they will meet at the top. I mean even if they are a fraction of a second out on the angle then it won't meet with the perpendicular at the top.

Will they maybe use GPS?

How would GPS work?

How about using one of these...

lumberjack · March 31st, 2012, 11:21 PM

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DSC03833 by Lumberjack_London, on Flickr

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DSC03832 by Lumberjack_London, on Flickr

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DSC03831 by Lumberjack_London, on Flickr

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DSC03829 by Lumberjack_London, on Flickr

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Darloeye · March 31st, 2012, 11:31 PM

String could do the job.

"Degrees can be subdivided - One degree can be subdivided into 60 minutes and a minute into 60 seconds.

Sounds confusing because it has the same words as time, but that's the way it is."- Jamiefearon.

learn something new every day.

The Shard Baby · April 1st, 2012, 08:24 AM

Now ffinybryn reveal the link to the pixie-cam please!
image hosted on flickr

29.3.2012 by The Shard Baby 6, on Flickr

March 31st, 2012, 04:57 AM	#6088
stevekeiretsu Registered User Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: london Posts: 325 Likes (Received): 134	checking my flickr stats and followed a trail from the referrers to the discovery that apparently the official (?) leadenhall twitter account posted my photo https://twitter.com/#!/LeadenhallTow...02413506850817 - strangely honoured __________________ My photos of • 20 Fenchurch St • 122 Leadenhall • Shard • St George Tower • City of London • Wandsworth / SW London development • Panoramas • My blog: Exploratory Strolling in London and beyond

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cnapan Registered User Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 849 Likes (Received): 105	Meccano lover Anyone who frayed the ends of their fingers making meccano models as a kid like I did surely will enjoy watching this building going up. There's something rather dull about concrete cores. I love the idea of a building made out of girders! The more of the structure that shows through, the better! Bolts and all.

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March 30th, 2012, 01:36 PM	#6081
pllmonster Registered User Join Date: Nov 2011 Posts: 10 Likes (Received): 0	Im sure you will sort it out shaft, if you need any advice or pll guidance i will be back maybein june.... Will you have much up by then or maybe finished according to the programme!!!!!! by our MC friends, tell Jus I found his pencil.

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March 30th, 2012, 06:33 PM	#6085
aggers Registered User Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Sanquhar Posts: 77 Likes (Received): 2	a simple no would have been fine...still put me in me place....keep me questions to myself next time.

March 30th, 2012, 07:36 PM	#6086
Bpool86 Registered User Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Blackpool Posts: 60 Likes (Received): 0	Does anyone know if they sorted those beams out where they were not fully tightened and they sagged? Or why it was/is like that?

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Wildecat Registered User Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: London Posts: 63 Likes (Received): 0	And mine! Thanks also Medenine for doing that time-lapse

March 31st, 2012, 07:16 PM	#6091
jamiefearon Registered User Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: London Posts: 760 Likes (Received): 82	How can they make sure they can get the angles of the front diagonals exactly right so that they will meet at the top. I mean even if they are a fraction of a second out on the angle then it won't meet with the perpendicular at the top. Will they maybe use GPS?

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Darloeye Registered User Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: County Durham, England Posts: 1,666 Likes (Received): 20	String could do the job. "Degrees can be subdivided - One degree can be subdivided into 60 minutes and a minute into 60 seconds. Sounds confusing because it has the same words as time, but that's the way it is."- Jamiefearon. learn something new every day.

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