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<blockquote data-quote="Terryl" data-source="post: 1100699" data-attributes="member: 369937"><p>From what I have seen of the damage it may not be too dangerous but too costly to repair and a bit complicated to do so.</p><p></p><p>To repair it you would have to first remove the center beam steering housing, this to keep it from falling and doing far more serious damage, but to do that you would have to clear out the center of the main reflector, that would be the only way to lower it down, problems with that would be the snapped cables that were helping to hold the housing in place, these would have to be replaced, but in order to do that sections of the main reflector would have to be removed at that support pylon location, this to clear a path for the new cables to be raised. </p><p></p><p>It would be better to completely remove it and build a new one in it's place.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Terryl, post: 1100699, member: 369937"] From what I have seen of the damage it may not be too dangerous but too costly to repair and a bit complicated to do so. To repair it you would have to first remove the center beam steering housing, this to keep it from falling and doing far more serious damage, but to do that you would have to clear out the center of the main reflector, that would be the only way to lower it down, problems with that would be the snapped cables that were helping to hold the housing in place, these would have to be replaced, but in order to do that sections of the main reflector would have to be removed at that support pylon location, this to clear a path for the new cables to be raised. It would be better to completely remove it and build a new one in it's place. [/QUOTE]
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