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Steel structures and grab unloaders

My experience of steel structures includes large ones, like designing a 1000MW power station in Queensland, Australia, to medium-sized exercises such as how to change a span of a fully-erected STS container crane by 50mm, over to reel details that must exist in the hundreds.

It is to cover these small items that prompted me to choose the references detailing the work on the cooler-elevator. By this choice I wanted to demonstrate that size has nothing to do with degree of difficulty of the task (20,000 cycles per day). In fact, this redesign I still remember among the most difficult I ever dealt with.