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The completed pile of spokes are then set up on the center trestle and moved back over
- to the other side as they are painted with undercoat. It was decided to use rollers for
- speed and a spoke could be painted in two minutes.
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And finally the spokes are given the final coat of gloss in bright red and moved back
- across for the last time. The colour looks different due to the sodium lighting in the
- workshop.
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The crew from SGB Island Scaffolding start to errect the structure around the
- wheel pit and axle under the watchfull eye of Manager Jon Bartley
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The structure is now well under way and will have to be built up from the river
- bed to a height of fourteen meters. The full scaffold weighing forty tons
- will be errected over two days by riggers Michael schumacher,
- Michael Philbin, Paul Hill and Kevin Dutchburn.
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The completed structure which stands at thirteen meters above the ground.
- The top of the wheel will reach as high as the top rail on the scaffolding.
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The team decided to have trial run with one side of the restored rim segments.
- This will also give the definitive measure for the final spoke trim before contruction.
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