Summary: It floats!
Previous update here: 38330
On Thursday afternoon, Travis helped me pull the wires and get them clamped. The one issue we had was two screws failing and almost breaking off. Neither of us thought that we were over torquing them, but it is possible. Luckily we stopped as soon as we felt them giving so they were still partially attached and we could just back them out slowly. I forgot to get a picture of these but they are still sitting on the table and I'll grab one next week.
Today I went in to release and balance the suspension and successfully was able to do so. It took a fair amount of poking, sliding, and exchanging masses, but eventually I used 19.65kg excluding the screws.
Attached are a few pictures of the wires and the floating suspension
And what else floats?
Apples! Bread! Very small rocks!
A duck!