Contest 8 Testing 2 Corrections
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The Ft-1 was next, and the destruction teams had to work hard to get their damage in. Once the transmission was considered junked, the team proceeded to go to work on utterly destroying the suspension system. While it was actually nearly impossible to get to the axles under the double road wheels, once teams did get in there it wasn't hard to start wrecking things. The engine escaped most of the attention, but the systems of the turret were absolutely ruined, and there wasn't much else to it after they got done banging up the breach and wrecking the driver's station.
Repair-wise, it was a mixed bag to work on the Ft-1. Getting to the damaged internals and transmission wasn't terribly hard- all that had to be done was spending a half hour taking the front roof off, then pulling the transmission and most of the driver's station with it. While this was underway, a discussion on how to handle the five damaged axles and ten ruined wheels per side was had, with the end result being to jack the tank up, pull all the wheels, and then all the axles. Two and a half hours later everything was off, and another hour of putting it all back on then killed everyone's enthusiasm for working in the turret. While it was easy to dismount and fix the gun, the sighting system with the synthetic aperture turned out to be right bastard to repair, with three hours of electricians banging away on it to no affect as the entire system actively refused to operate correctly. Finally, the repair time was clocked at nine hours with the standard twenty man crew, plus an additional two hours of dedicated electrical specialists.
Repair-wise, it was a mixed bag to work on the Ft-1. Getting to the damaged internals and transmission wasn't terribly hard- all that had to be done was spending a half hour taking the front roof off, then pulling the transmission and most of the driver's station with it. While this was underway, a discussion on how to handle the five damaged axles and ten ruined wheels per side was had, with the end result being to jack the tank up, pull all the wheels, and then all the axles. Two and a half hours later everything was off, and another hour of putting it all back on then killed everyone's enthusiasm for working in the turret. While it was easy to dismount and fix the gun, the sighting system with the synthetic aperture turned out to be right bastard to repair, with three hours of electricians banging away on it to no affect as the entire system actively refused to operate correctly. Finally, the repair time was clocked at nine hours with the standard twenty man crew, plus an additional two hours of dedicated electrical specialists.
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