well, the first box is out of the mold. marian, toure, kassoum, samba, and i went down to transtech today and got to watch the first box being made. we saw them load the plastic in the mold, seal it up, stick in the furnace, take it out, wait for it to cool (which took forever), and them watched them pry it out of the mold! it's beautiful, the dimensions are just as we planned, down to the millimeter. this is surprising because we were given a ballpark number for the shrinkage factor, and i guess the number we chose was accurate. it looks just like the plans.
next major task is to make sure transtech can make the reflectors by next friday (one week), then assembly that weekend, and finished product the day i leave. i took some photos which i'll try to post on the web. since francis is gone (and with him his computer) it's a little more difficult to find a computer i can download my pictures to...
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