Restoration at a glance
Reportage (full movie)
Jan Klaassens, Hilko Hof and Arie Burggraaf from amateur video club Spotlight in Hoogeveen have made a documentary and reportage of the entire restoration (2012-2014). This REPORTAGE of the restoration (33 minutes) follows almost all restoration work in chronological order.
The various work activities can be viewed also as thirty-two individual short film fragments (on average 1 minute) in the toggle menu under the reportage.
(Audible language at the workplace is Dutch)
Reportage (in film fragments)
Choose above the fold menu All for all film clips or a /topic/ for a selection of film clips about that topic. Click on the picture to open the film registration of that topic.
01 Disassembleing the four leg and the focus box
02 Lifting the mirror from the tower and placing it next to the telescope on a special support structure (trestle)
03 Building scaffolding around the tower and rail track and around the mirror construction on the trestle
04 Removing, numbering and storing the mesh panels from the mirror
05 Checking and cleaning the mesh panels and, if necessary, repairing by CAMRAS volunteers
06 Disassembling the two gearboxes of the elevation drive equipment
07 Building tents around the scaffolding
08 Tents seen from the Dwingelderveld
09 Work consultation at the radio telescope
10 Building meeting at ASTRON
11 Replacing bolts and nuts
12 Rusted steel parts in the mirror and the tower
13 Replacing the pedestal brackets
14 Sandblasting old paint layers and applying three layers of coating
15 Removing the blasting grit
16 Heritage Day by CAMRAS volunteers
17 Mounting the new pedestals
18 Adjusting the mirror
19 Replacing the mesh panels
20 Removing the tents and scaffolding
21 Overhauling the two gearboxes of the elevation drive equipment
22 Jacking up the mirror from the trestle and replacing the elevation bearings
23 Disassembling, overhauling and replacing the four running wheels
24 Replacing the mirror on the tower
25 Turning the mirror down with CAMRAS volunteers
26 Overhauling the focus box by CAMRAS volunteers
27 Replacing the four leg and the focus box
28 Working inside and outside the control house (roofing, painting, underfloor heating)
29 Re-equiping the radio telescope by CAMRAS volunteers
30 Securing and setting the rail track
31 Handover of the radio telescope to ASTRON
32 Official reopening of the restored radio telescope
Not recorded on film
Not all work activities are recorded on film. These are for example:
- the complete clearing of the radio telescope by CAMRAS volunteers prior to the restoration;
- concrete-work on the foundation;
- laying tiles and sand around the rail track;
- installing cables between the control house and focus box.
