We required the following shipping pallets to ship the whole telescope to Arizona. We shipped the telescope in the second week of June, 2000, using essentially these containers.

1. Pallet for base: This is an 8x8 foot pallet with plywood cover. It will contain the following items, many of which are seen in this loaded view:
1. Telescope base and attachment ring for central pivot
2. Levelling jacks for the base.
3. Insulating material for base.
4. Stay bars for altitude.
5. Oil distribution line.
6. Box with ducts for air lines.
7. Fan and external duct.
8. Counterweights for tilt axis.
9. Tensioning frame for tilt axis.
10. Jig for lifting primry mirror.
11. Guides for primry mirror.
2. Pallet for fork: This is a steel weldment from ORNL. The fork is placed on the pallet on its side with the central pivot and brush seals attached. The azimuth bearing and central pivot are protected by plywood covers. Some parts for the fork (namely the air-filter frames and access-hole covers) must be shipped separately in a cardboard box.
3. Telescope tube (mirror cell): This is an 8x8-foot pallet without cover. The mirror cell is bolted to the pallet with two 1/2-inch threaded rods through existing holes. The tilt axles and attachment points for the drive sector are protected by plywood shields. The instrument stand is shipped screwed onto the cell, along with the spare (test) guiding head that goes on it. The 50-lb counterweights for lateral support are bolted onto the pallet inside the cell. Back covers for the cell are shipped in place on the cell, held in place with spare clamps.
4. Top end: This is shipped on its assembly fixture, which is provided with two wooden skids to get it up off the floor for lifting with a forklift.
5. Drive sector and struts: These are contained in a special box with plywood cover.
6. Drive tractors: Three drive tractors, along with their attachment flexures and support pieces, are shipped in a special box with a plywood cover.
7. Extra moderately sized, heavy parts: These are shipped in a special box with a plywood cover. They include (a) the azimuth drive attachments, (b) azimuth hold-downs, and (c) altitude-drive attachment.
8. Primary mirror and cover: Use special box provided by Torus Optics.
9. Mirror support levers: Put in a special plywood box with the levers resting in special wooden cradles to keep them from stressing the pivot bearings. A loaded view of this box is shown here.
10. Sundry heavy parts: Drive tensioning hardware; lateral support levers and their attachments; lateral hard points; counterweights for the tilt tractor; bolts and screws not shipped in other boxes. They go in a special plywood box.
11. Oil pump: Ship in special box with covers.
12. Base skirt: These parts go in a special box made of 1/4-inch plywood.
13. Drive electronics: Boxes to house the drive electronics and computer go in yet another special plywood box.
14. Special stand, ladders, air conditioner, spare screws, misc parts for setting up, special tools in large plastic chest: Take stand apart, screw together, lash the two ladders and the boxes for other parts on top, and put on truck as a unit.
15. General tools. Take in smaller tool chest in box with cap for top end.

Some smaller parts were not ready to ship with the main telescope. Specifically, the secondary mirror was in Iowa for refiguring, the secondary-mirror cell required tests of its motions in the lab, and the instrument head required further mechanical/electrical integration in the lab before testing in the telescope, as well as integration into the spectrograph.

These other parts not yet allocated to boxes are the following:

1. Secondary mirror: Ship the mirror in the box provided by Torus Optics.
2. Secondary-mirror cell: This cell requires a special box to hold it and its stand.
3. Instrument head. Ship in another special box designed to hold it and its stand.
4. Drivers for secondary mirror: Try to fit into the box for the mirror cell, if possible. Otherwise, take in a cardboard box with the lifting fixture.

The spectrograph will weigh approximately 2500 lbs., much of which is an optical bench. We will take it to the site in a small moving van. As of June, 2000, plans for boxing the various parts are incomplete.

1. Echelle grating:
2. Cross-dispersion grating:
3. Colimating (reimaging) mirrors:
4. Other optics:
5. Stand for echelle grating/input stage:
6. Stands for reimaging mirrors:
7. Stand for cross-dispersion grating:
8. Camera:
9. CCD/electronics:
10. Calibration bench: