The hook pictured in this image is one of four that belong to the double overhead bridge crane installed 43 metres above the floor in the Assembly Hall.
The double crane is made of two pairs of girders and corresponding trolleys (see diagram). The hooks are attached below by two redundant cables wound eight times in a pulley block.
Each hook has a lifting capacity of 375 tonnes.
Behind the blue hook in the photo is the yellow lifting beam (see diagram) that will be used to manoeuvre the heaviest machine components such as the vacuum vessel sector assemblies or the central solenoid.
Lifting tests with dummy loads (1,875 tonnes) are scheduled in December.
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June 4th 2020 A great achievment by all international partners from 35 nations !!!!
Thank you to all of our employees for their involvement, support, courage and solidarity
It was a display of Titans, with no less than 1,000 tonnes of steel and concrete test loads attached to the giant hoists
REEL and REEL NKM NOELL stand together with all their 2’300 employees, with all their customers and suppliers.
