Cleaning the drive is a difficult job.

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  • Although the cement render is flaking off and all wooden doors and hatches are burned, the tower is structurally sound.
  • The heliostat has survived, but is beyond repair. All paint and electrics have burnt, and the brass azimuth scale has melted. Mi
  • Heliostat is stuck in azimuth, probably warped out of round by the heat.
  • Drive mechanisms are still mounted inside the tower.
  • Cleaning the drive is a difficult job.
  • All of the heliostat electrics are burnt.
  • The base of the tower.
  • The basement, looking toward the stairwell (left). The base of the tower is on the right.
  • Cabinets containing the Palomar, ESO and UKST survey plates and films.