Been a while since there has been an alog about SEI assembly progress, so here goes...

Unit 5 is looking good at last report, after hunting down a couple of well hidden cable rubs (backside of an actuator and locker). Hugo could say better, but I'm tentatively hopeful we can put this assembly in the can next weekish. Unit 6 was floated for the first time today, and some rough adjustments were done to lockers and locker shims. This assembly looks rather a mess right now, partly because we are trying to match more recent wall payloads plans (less weight on the walls than previously thought) and partly because we are still missing things like actuators and walls, the last of the GS-13's for this assembly and some miscellaneous hardware that needs to be baked. As such, 6 will probably not be ready for testing for a couple weeks, so we are slowly nibbling away at prep work for LHO's 7th and final HAM. The optical table is mostly done with helicoils, Stage 0 is ready to be put on the assembly stand and we are putting together what sub-assemblies we can. We are still learning what hardware we've managed to misplace over the last ~2 years, so #7 may go a little slow.