spaceman Posted July 26, 2020 Author Share Posted July 26, 2020 (edited) Thanks my friends for your great support, which is very helpful for my soul. Perhaps it is also my tricky personal situation that makes me hesitate because I have been home alone for half a year because my wife unfortunately had to go to a nursing home and I have to be there for our poodle Gino (9). Last year he had two cruciate ligament tears in a row on his hind legs, the operations of which cost him rather strength, so that I sometimes have to carry him over the stairs in our house, depending on his shape of the day, so that he doesn't overexert himself. And if I then think about the 6 weeks with this "supple" shoulder splint, I will have to come up with something, because lifting him up on my arms and carrying it will not work ... For the 2 days hospital stay I can give him to a friend. I also don't know exactly what a rehabilitation would mean, but maybe it would be possible outpatient. A friend in another forum sent me a link to an interesting article, https://www.verywellhealth.com/surgery-not-needed-for-rotator-cuff-tears-2549780 which reinforces me to get a second opinion yet in order to get more certainty for the right decision, which is really not easy ... In view of this, perhaps you may understand now that I am in a somewhat difficult situation currently, which made me lose a little bit of interest in modeling etc. ... But somehow it must and will continue ... Edited July 26, 2020 by spaceman Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Aussie-Pete Posted July 26, 2020 Share Posted July 26, 2020 I had a bursa on my shoulder that required surgery. Pain would wake me at night and had no strength in the shoulder. All good now. Worth getting fixed if required Quote Link to post Share on other sites
spaceman Posted July 27, 2020 Author Share Posted July 27, 2020 (edited) Thanks Aussie-Pete and Hello friends, there is still justified hope that I might get around a surgery. The physiotherapist said today that it could not be a complete tendon rupture, especially since I have no pain and no functional restriction in my shoulder and I can totally lift my arm to the top and let rotate it through 360°, just like the other. So I immediately registered with the Chief physician for Orthopedic surgery, Trauma surgery and Sports medicine in a larger clinic in Stuttgart, where I've got an appointment on August 6 to get a second opinion. Then we'll see ... Edited July 27, 2020 by spaceman Quote Link to post Share on other sites
spaceman Posted July 30, 2020 Author Share Posted July 30, 2020 (edited) Hello everybody, after I have had enough time and have now formed my own opinion, I can now go on carefree and cheerfully, but next week I will get as planned a second opinion from the specialists at a clinic in Stuttgart. According to my diagnosis, I did not completely tear the Supraspinatus tendon, when I fell almost 4 weeks ago, as one has meant last, but rather probably "only" a local defect happened, as the radiologist meant after his MRI, which, however, might also already be based on a degenerative pre-damage, that went unnoticed. The initial pains, which has now almost completely subsided, was in my opinion a result of the rib bruise that I had contracted. In any case, I have no pain in the shoulder and no functional restrictions and can do the "windmill" with both arms as before. Thank God and my Guardian Angel!!! I've found a plausible explanation in the said Article, which I've read again in more detail. There it says, among other things: A rotator cuff tear that is the result of aging, called a degenerative tear of the rotator cuff, must be distinguished from a tear that is the result of a traumatic injury to the shoulder. There is some crossover, where the chronic weakening of the rotator cuff from aging degenerating leads to susceptibility to tearing from relatively minor trauma. Therefore, each individual likely has components of both degenerating and trauma that contribute to their shoulder problem, and your orthopedic surgeon can help determine why your tear occurred. Since I think that I don't have (no longer) a shoulder problem, I now wait relatively relaxed, what the 2nd orthopedist next week thinks about it. But an surgery would now rather mean like to shot with cannons at sparrows ... In the light of recent events, I have now played a doctor myself and have operated our little squirrel that had suffered a complete foot fracture in the garden some time ago. But since I am not a miracle healer, I got myself with the Revell UV Super Glue a miracle weapon that I wanted to try out already a long time ago. So I put the patient in the stable supine position, and then have applied the liquid adhesive to the break point. After putting on and pressing the front paw, I then irradiated the seam with the UV pointer, which causes the adhesive to harden transparently. And that was already the miracle healing, and the squirrel wanted to go back to the garden quickly. And this gave me the idea that I could also use this UV glue for the Pad and MLP lighting to seal the LEDs in the lampshades, or that one could be able to shape glue drops over the LEDs, so to speak as "bulbs". And then I've tried it out on my test lamps. Back then I had also experimented with tiny glass beads (right) to simulate the lamp body. To the left of it, the LED is only inserted flat into the lampshade and should have been glued yet. Both lamps are switched on here. In this position I've then dripped the glue onto, and then hardened with the UV pointer, as well as tested. To shape a nice round drop, I will have to experiment a bit yet, but this solution should certainly be useful, also for the three special lamps 11, 12, 17 without a wide lampshade. But now I'll switch off all the lights and slowly move into the horizontal, and maybe dream of the squirrel ... Edited July 30, 2020 by spaceman Quote Link to post Share on other sites
K2Pete Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 You're displaying a lot of happiness in this post! ... A Happy Squirrel ... a Happy Lamp and a Happy Manfred! And I'm smiling while visualizing you performing 'windmills' in your backyard! Thanx for this multi-level update! Pete Quote Link to post Share on other sites
spaceman Posted July 31, 2020 Author Share Posted July 31, 2020 (edited) Pete, yep, indeed! After awakening from anesthesia, the squirrel first of all had to fortify itself in its feed house ... Happy with this test result on the one hand, but on the other hand I sometimes have to think with horror of my inventories of those felt like 1.000 lamps at that time ... Source: retrospaceimages.com (STS-6) Source: NASA And my arm windmill is maybe something like this ... I hope you understand what I mean ... namely that a surgery isn't always needed, hopefully, we will see ... Edited July 31, 2020 by spaceman Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mikephilippens Posted August 1, 2020 Share Posted August 1, 2020 I miss the little €0,05 piece for scale with the sqirl 😂😂😂 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
spaceman Posted August 1, 2020 Author Share Posted August 1, 2020 Hi Mike, extra for you! But the squirrel only wanted to come along after I've promised him some nuts, what a nifty fellow ... No problem, because I'm animal-loving ... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
spaceman Posted August 11, 2020 Author Share Posted August 11, 2020 Hello everybody, first of all the good news of the last week's Health check that my gut feeling has not deceived me. I didn't want to go under the knife, and after getting a second opinion, no shoulder surgery is necessary either!!! The orthopedic surgeon I've consulted in the Stuttgart clinic first asked me about my concerns and how I was feeling. And after I've shown him my easygoing windmill-arm rotation, he said, to my surprise, short and sweet: Well then, Goodbye!!! Oops, sorry? Only then he has looked at the MRI-CD and showed me the defect (1 cm x 1 cm) on the Supraspinatus tendon that the radiologist had found and explain it to me on the model . Accordingly, the term Complete rupture of the first surgeon would be appropriate, but would only apply to this small area behind the enthesis. On the other hand, the tendon would be present all around, so it is more of a "hole" and not a torn tendon, which I initially thought. In short, he said that he would not operateon me, especially since I have no restrictions on freedom of movement or a loss of strength in my arm, which finally convinced and reassured me. And so I was able to go back to my Pad construction site completely relaxed and again turn to the two lamp shapes with and without a shade/reflector on the MLP-Side 1, Source: NASA whereby it was again about the three circled lamps without a lampshade. In the meantime I had adapted the splitting of the circuits a little bit more to the local conditions in order to be able to achieve the easiest possible relocation of the lamps. Source: NASA In my first attempts I had still experimented with tiny glass beads, which is rather tricky and should be much easier to implement with the help of the new UV adhesive, like my first attempts with the larger lampshades have already shown. For these three lamps without reflector I used the smaller ferrules (0,5x6), which have an inner diameter of 0,8 mm, through which the LEDs of the design SMD 0401/0402 can be threaded through, as one can see in this image with a LED Sunny White, with the LED standing upright and protruding relatively far out of the small shade. Here one can see the size difference between the LEDs of the types SMD 0401/0402 (left) and the SMD 0603 (right), whereby the last one is too bigfor the smaller ferrule, but is fitting the larger ferrule. Here one can see for comparison one of the larger ferrules (1,0x6) for the other lamps on the Side 1, the shade of which I have widened from a diameter of 2,4 mm to 2,8 mm. Here the switched-on LED (0401) shines in its warm white color. In the meantime I've got another UV adhesive. The whitish drop on the right is from the Revell Fix-Kit, and the other is an UV adhesive called BONDIC, which looks a little yellowish, but otherwise has similar properties. At first I only tried without LEDs to create a glass body by building up the adhesive in layers, which is quite feasible with a little practice. One just doesn't have to drip too much glue on, because otherwise it will run too wide before one can irradiate it, causing it to harden, so layer by layer. One can also make clever use of the force of gravity by turning the sleeve immediately after the glue has been dripped on and allowing the drop to be shaped a little for itself, and only then irradiate it, which initially looked like this. And with a little practice I managed to create this beautiful glass body. Then I've repeated the same procedure with an upright standing LED Pure White (0401), so first a drop was dropped for fixing the LED, which was then cured with the UV Pen, here with a finished glass body. With a little skill, the small LED can also be inserted flat into the sleeve, which makes the light emission more even. So much for my feasibility experiments, which show that it's also possible to do without the tiny glass beads. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Aussie-Pete Posted August 12, 2020 Share Posted August 12, 2020 brilliant Quote Link to post Share on other sites
spaceman Posted August 12, 2020 Author Share Posted August 12, 2020 Thanks Pete for your compliment. Hello everybody, meanwhile I took a closer look at the lighting on the Side 1 of the MLP-2 and evaluated these three photos from different perspectives, whereby some lamps are unfortunately covert or not visible. Thereby I noticed that there are not three, as previously assumed, but four lamps without reflector, which are circled on all images. The first two images are image details from my reference photos of the MLP-2 during STS-6 (1983), each from a slightly different perspective. The newly discovered lamp without reflector is the yellow circled Lamp 7, which in the 1st photo can only be seen with difficulty as a point to the left of the vertical strut, and in the 2nd photo as a point to the right of the slant strut. Source: retrospaceimages.com - STS-6 High-Res. Image Library Source: retrospaceimages.com - STS-6 High-Res. Image Library But on this photo of the MLP-2 during STS-28 (1989) one can clearly see at the same lamp arrangement that the yellow circled Lamp 7 has no reflector. Source: NASA So I have to scratch four lamps with a glass body but without a reflector with the help of the UV Adhesive technique. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
spaceman Posted August 24, 2020 Author Share Posted August 24, 2020 Hello everybody, with this update I want to briefly inform you about the current status. In the meantime I have thought of a solution for laying the first four lamps in the red circle on the MLP-Side 1, whereby the LED wires are laid in such a way that they cannot be seen afterwards. In an intensive exchange of ideas with my German Raumcon friend McPhönix, who built the ingenious Mega power bank for the complete pad lighting for me, we agreed upon a solution, in which the cabling between the power bank and the MLP takes place via the front Pedestal at the right-hand corner of the MLP. Who would like to find out more about the structure of this power bank can look into his thread Lighting of models, unfortunately only in German. After repeated detailed examination of the previous splitting of the three LED circles on the MLP-Side 1 I came across a tricky problem considering the sometimes very cramped spaces under the roofs of the MLP, related to the Lamps 5-7 in the yellow circle, Source: retrospaceimages.com - STS-6 High-Res. Image Library which I have marked with the yellow arrow in this image. The following two images once again show the cramped conditions circled on site. After the laying the first four lamps (1-4) of the yellow line, I would then have to climb up with the last three lamps (5-7) from the ceiling above the lower Access Platform along the stairs there up to the upper Access Platform above the LH2Valve Skid followed by pulling the strand with the three lamps through a real eye of a needle between the support struts of the LH2Transport Line, which would be almost impossible. In addition, the LED wire would then hang freely in the space in front of the tubes on the MLP wall. To find a way out of this dilemma, I changed the division of the LED circles once again, which can be seen in the following images. Therefore I've extended the red circle by a lamp, Source: capcomespace.net which now ends with the Lamp 8 at this needle eye and is led on the rear wall to the return conductor (GND). Thus the yellow LED circle only has still four lamps (1-4). The remaining two lamps (6/7) of the originally yellow circle now form the beginning of the light blue circle (1/2), Source: capcomespace.net which now includes eight lamps. Source: capcomespace.net With this redistribution, the laying of the LED circles should now be a bit easier, I hope so. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Aussie-Pete Posted August 25, 2020 Share Posted August 25, 2020 Amazing detail. Wow Quote Link to post Share on other sites
spaceman Posted August 25, 2020 Author Share Posted August 25, 2020 Thanks Pete, I try to do my best. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
freshnewstart Posted August 26, 2020 Share Posted August 26, 2020 I need to say this... I have followed you the last few years, and your effort and stabillity, and not to mention; "sense of quality" is simply amazing. What a journey up to now!! I look forward to your lightshow, as many others i believe 😊 Jesper Quote Link to post Share on other sites
spaceman Posted August 26, 2020 Author Share Posted August 26, 2020 (edited) Thanks Jesper for your nice compliments, that mightily spurs me on to persevere and grit the teeth ... The lighting will become a major challenge yet. Edited August 26, 2020 by spaceman Quote Link to post Share on other sites
The Underdog Posted August 28, 2020 Share Posted August 28, 2020 Manfred, If someone was gonna be selected to take-on a project such as this, it had to be you and only you. Through "thick & thin" you've bent, but have never broken. The one thing that separates the darkness from bad to good, is the Light. May your Light always shine brightly, and continue with much success! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
spaceman Posted August 29, 2020 Author Share Posted August 29, 2020 Thanks my friend for looking in on me again. Your praise obliges me to continue and not to give up, although the road has been also a path of trial and tribulation so far, if only I think of the brutal operations on my MLP and other crazy things. But there were also lots of success and fun, which only made me tougher and spurred me on, because only when one has a goal one can find a way. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
spaceman Posted August 29, 2020 Author Share Posted August 29, 2020 (edited) Hello friends, let's go on. And therewith back to the first LED circle (1-8, red), of which the first four lamps are somehow attached to the MLP wall, the question is only how? On this already shown part from a photo montage from the Side 1 of the MLP-2 I had conjectured inlet pipes for the lamp cords at the fastening points of the lamps, laying in the middle of the wall's frames. Source: capcomespace.net That's why in a first version I used a Styrene rod (Ø 0,7 mm) to hold the lampshades, which I've glued with UV adhesive onto the lampshade. To facilitate tests for the assembly and cabling of the first four LED lamps on the MLP wall, I made a true-to-scale copy of Side 1 from David Maier's paper kit as a template and then glued four vertical struts from the used styrene profiles, as well as temporarily placed a lampshade, which should not lie against the wall directly. Here the lamp with the holding rod is plugged into the wall, which would make this a useful attachment variant. In the meantime I've remembered the great Launch Pad 39A Reference Photos by Troy McClellan, on which one can see at maximum resolution (3x click) that those are not tubes but Angle profiles to which the lamps were attached during the early STS missions, which were later replaced by other lamps like these ones here. Source: Troy McClellan On this image section I've measured some details and found that the angles, scaled to 1:160, are only 0,4 mm x 0,4 mm "large" and protrude slightly beyond the wall struts towards the front, i.e. they should be approx. 2 mm long, thereby the lampshades (Ø 2,8 mm) would be slightly in front of the wall. But such small angle profiles there are not available neither made of styrene nor brass, whereby the smallest brass angles are 1 mm x 1 mm, which would be a bit too big. So I was thinking about how and from what one could scratch such small angles. But more on that tomorrow, have a nice day. Edited September 1, 2020 by spaceman Quote Link to post Share on other sites
spaceman Posted August 30, 2020 Author Share Posted August 30, 2020 Hello everybody, and back to the small angles. First I've tried to convert the smallest Evergreen-H profile (1,5 mm x 1,5 mm) into an angle. which after several cuts was 0,7 mm x 0,7 mm, but with legs 0,2/0,3 mm instead of 0,1 mm. Then I remembered the Gutters on the MLP upper deck, for which I used Aluminum sheet (0,1 mm). So it was worth a try to make a possible small angle out of it, although the thought of it may seem rather crazy ... As a bending aid, I had thought of steel rulers (approx. 0,5 mm), which should enable a similarly small leg length. No sooner thought than done! Since it is almost impossible to immediately bend a 0,5 mm narrow strip at right angles, I've started with a lot of overhang and then clamped the piece of sheet metal onto a sheet of steel, and have bent this strip vertically upwards. Then I've clamped the angled sheet metal upright between two steel rulers, and have bent the strip up and down several times until it broke off. Then I've smoothed the breakline a bit, wherewith one leg was already done. Then I've wedged the bent leg between the rulers, and have broken off the remaining strip in the same way. Thereby the angle was finished, was about 0,7mm x 0,7mm and looked quite passable. And this is how the angle at the lampshade would look. Now I'm curious what you're thinking about it? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Aussie-Pete Posted August 31, 2020 Share Posted August 31, 2020 omg Quote Link to post Share on other sites
spaceman Posted August 31, 2020 Author Share Posted August 31, 2020 Don't panic, Pete, and simply keep cool. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mikephilippens Posted September 1, 2020 Share Posted September 1, 2020 This is where 3D printers would come in handy... 😁 On the other hand, that would shift the craftsmanship from inventing ways to make the part with your hands and (improvised) tools to drawing it in a 3D drawing app and 'just' print it. As always, Manfred, it is Olympic Level Skills. Every time, I'm amazed at the level of detail you put in the model and the skills you have to create the pieces you need. Amazing! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
spaceman Posted September 1, 2020 Author Share Posted September 1, 2020 Thanks Mike for your nice compliments. 3D printers are a cool matter when one can model 3D. But lamps with integrated LEDs cannot yet be printed by them yet ... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Aussie-Pete Posted September 3, 2020 Share Posted September 3, 2020 On 9/2/2020 at 9:26 AM, spaceman said: Thanks Mike for your nice compliments. 3D printers are a cool matter when one can model 3D. But lamps with integrated LEDs cannot yet be printed by them yet ... No but the angle bracket and shade can be Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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