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Hello folks, so let's get to the wiring harness, which I first shortened. The cables now need to be glued individually to the plugs. For this purpose, I glued short sections of black broom hair (Ø 0,1 mm) to the ends so that they can be inserted into the tiny openings of the plugs (Øa 0,5 mm) while gluing. Of course, this required a steady hand again, as the gluing with UHU CA had to be as secure as possible right away, which meant that the remaining cables had to

Yep, my friend, thats right. Well, you always have to assess both the opportunities and the risks. That's Technology Assessment. I did it professionally for 10 years long time ago. It was very interesting.

Thanks Kirk and Mike for your compliments, I'm glad you like it.

Hello friends, sorry for the long silence. Unfortunately, I had problems with my PC monitor (Black screen) and couldn't do anything for a few days except looking for reasons. Since my old monitor has finally given up the ghost, I've since bought a new monitor and can finally continue. Well, I don't want to keep you in suspense any longer, now I finally have some clarity. After silence here in the forum, I tried to reach a wider ucommunity in the NSF Q&A Section, which actually paid off with the response from DaveS,

Hello everybody, and with this, off to the first sewing lesson. Now, I've used many different materials for scratching before, but sewing threads are a new thing so far, true to the old saying the end justifies the means, so why not. But now we're moving into dimensions < 1 mm, which is actually beyond good and evil, as you can see in this image. I didn't initially think about the length of the cable bundle, especially since I only wanted to hint at it. And on the Diorama, such t

Thanks for your nice compliments, Nick, I fully agree with you. BTW reverse engineering in miniature is perhaps an apt comparison, and one I like.

Hello friends, and thus to the two conductors on the Starboard Side, which were glued in a similar way. Of course I was able to reuse the spacers. Otherwise, the same procedures were followed as when gluing the ladders on the Port Side, which required a similar amount of caution and patience. The left ladder was now successfully glued, and the right ladder followed immediately. And so the only thing missing on this side was the Outrigger, which only needed to be

Hello everybody, this leaves only the two Outrigger and the four ladders left. Only is good, the free space for laying the canister during assembly is becoming increasingly limited and handling is therefore becoming more and more risky in order not to break off any of the existing structures. Source: NASA (STS-135) As they both stand there, I still think I did quite a good job with them. But if you look at where they have to be mounted, then they are the two outer ends of the can

Thanks Kirk for the flowers, that motivates me to keep up modeling at the same level.

Hello everybody, well, it's not easy as it looks like. However, I only need one longer hose, as the longer of the two is long enough for the shorter hose and only needs to be adjusted. But there are still a few details missing that I had almost lost track of. Firstly, there's this Spike on the AFT Bulkhead of the PLC, which has been waiting to be installed for some time and is now on its row. This spike contains the upper Door seal control panel, which can be used to operat

Hello everybody, but on closer inspection, it's not quite that simple. As subsequent measurements have shown, the red hoses should be slightly larger in diameter than previously determined, i.e. Ø 2,5 mm instead of 2.3 mm, which unfortunately meant that my intended red cable(Ø 2,3 mm) was out of the running. That's not much, but the proportions should be roughly right. So I remembered the variant with shrink tubing and looked through my inventory. However, you have to keep in mind that the tubing doesn't run perfectly straight in Vertical Transportation Mo

Well roared, lion. You should actually understand the idiom "missing the boat" that the wise Google Translator suggested to me.

Thanks Kirk for your nice compliment, you have to stay tuned, otherwise you'll miss the boat.

Hello everybody, and now let's go for the Pneumatic Line Final Countdown off to the Port Side. And since the process of gluing these lines was similar to that on the Starboard Side, today I'll just show a few pictures without much wording. For a better overview, this time I have marked the positions of the support plates on this tape strip, whereupon both lines could then be glued onto the side wall.

Hi Al, and hang in there my friend.