Five more days to go, until everything must be ready. Slowly, plenty of single parts start combining into a measurement station. Kilian needs to be praised for constructing the prototype, which now makes the copying much easier. While ‘scientific helper’ is his formal job description, ‘engineer’ would fit much better.
Also on the administrative side, things get moving. Necessary papers, asked for weeks to months ago, start piling up on the desk finally.