Hello!
Thanks for your nice reply's!
I will post some pics as I have a favourable background (my desk is a very busy place
)
@Yogi:
Thanks for the tip with the PVC pipe.
I found some at our hardware store - one inch in diameter, that should fit.
For the inner structure I got some ideas, as well as for hangin' it up from the ceiling.
There will be three main structures.
The pressurized parts (russian and american) will have seperate tubes inside, due to the lack of lineup of those sections.
The seperation will be in Node-2, I will look how I can connect both PVC tubes inside that module.
The unpressurized structure will have one tube from one end to the other.
The main problem there will be the S3/P3 segments of the truss... I can't hide the pipe inside there.
An I have no idea how I can manage it to make the huge solar arrays pivotable (at the S3/S4 and P3/P4 cinjunction).
I thought about a steel bolt, which I can connect to the PVC tubing easily.
Maybe it is not that obvius when the bolt is only 1/4 inch diameter?
I'm open to ideas anyway
The structure will then be hung up at multiple points on the tubing through nylon wires to a wooden cross mountet at the ceiling.
As talking about wood: that will also strengthen the solar array structure wich is almost half a metre long!
Currently I finished Soyuz and Im' now building the HTV-1 and the Zvezda module.
I build it from HVT (docked to Zvezda) to Node-2.
Greetings,
Robert
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