Nov. 7, 2007
Bad part in hard-to-reach place
  Friendship Trays' conversion to cool meals is waiting on equipment to be up and running.
  One key piece was very much up -- it's on the roof -- but it was not running.
   So a crane was in the South End parking lot lifting a replacement compressor into place. The ride was a short one. It took longer to set up the crane than to lift the new unit to the roof.
   Technicians joked that they should just have given the Friendship Trays staff a rope to lift the several hundred pound unit. There were no takers.
   Testing continues on the equipment.