As you know, your product and paper work have been received.
Here is a brief update on our progress thus far:
(1) Acrylic housing almost completed.
(2) Davis Instruments suggests using bathroom scale to estimate force before ordering gauge! These trials could be conducted as early as next week.
(3) Jason has located long steel posts with orifices on which to bracket the force gauge. By burying the ends of the post, the experiment can theoretically be set up under ideal distance conditions.
(4) I am sourcing the outside water supply and hosing as I am writing this to you. Remember, actual duration of contract begins when all materials/supplies are received (i.e., gauge, et al) but does not change fee-for-services.