And here are the lights and wires glued into place. Some are offset a bit. This is a whole lot cleaner than the previous model. So far so good.
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The first floor of lights have been soldered up. Here is a picture of the resistors. There will be four of these per level.
And here is the completed level from the underside with the lights lit up. This is a much better solution than what I did on my first model.
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With the lights figured out I have started slicing some of the Saturn V parts in half. Here is the stage 2 tank part sliced to size. It just fits on the printer. This is what drove the scale to a max size.
Here are the scaled, sliced and assembled S-IV stage. Instead of slicing the engine I decided to keep the engine and lower part of the LOX tank. These are the main parts and not all the finer detail parts.
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The complete structure is printed. The structure is set in place (not glued) minus the 12" diagonal cross braces. The floor grating is also set in place. I have chosen not to add floor grating to the top level so the floor beam structure is exposed. Also getting a start on the Saturn V cross section.
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The elevator sub-assemblies are complete. The J-boxes on side 1 and 4 are installed along with various red fire boxes. Side 1 is on 75M-05121-146 and side 4 is on 75M-05121-147.
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The Saturn V portion of the model is complete. Here are pictures of the inside and outside. I like being able to show all the inner details of the original model. Again, this is not my model, it is made from parts that I can’t publish, but you can certainly purchase them for a small fee from the Amphioxus on Cults 3D. The prices has now gone up to $9.47 for each of the four sections. There may be other models out there as well. This one is a very good quality model. You can see that I simply sliced the parts in half except for the third stage engine. The lowest part, the upper tank of the second stage, was also chopped off at the bottom of the letter “I”.
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Level 200 is starting to take shape. The floor grating and elevator are glued in place along with some of the large equipment.
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Absolutely Phenomenal Work!!!
Thanks. Trying to make it as accurate as possible.
All of the interior equipment is on except for the piping which I am working on. There are a lot of exterior pipes which I will hold off on until all the interiors are complete. Working from the inside out. The side 3 railing is not on yet to allow access to the LH2 and LOX valving, but the railing has the emergency shower, eyewash station and drinking fountain. Side 1 has many small control boxes attached to the railing.
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Looking at the LH2 valving and the pipes seem too large. After dusting off some brain cells I realized the drawings are in the Cato Library under LUT drawings. There are pages from the 75M-05753 document. Here is one of the pages. This is exactly the details I need to redraw the LH2 valve assembly, accurate down to the inch.
Here is the LH2 part next to the older LOX part including the raised platform and the vent line connections under the floor.
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