Hello everybody,
after the more or less successful test airbrushing of the
IT Dummy I have now removed an old burden. And that was the broken tip of the
LO2 Tank that fell off the table a long time ago, that's the
Lightning rod at the top of the
Nose cone cap.
The tip on the
Revell-ET of my friend
Thomas Emberger, who died in 2017, is approx.
3,5 mm long. But since I remembered a drawing from the
George Gassaway collection, I was able to get the exact dimensions from it.
Source: georgesrockets.com (George Gassaway)
Thereafter the
Length is 14,01'', i.e.
2,5 mm (1:144), and the
Diameter is 6,89'', and accordingly
Ø 1,2 mm (1:144).
As one can see, this tip has a cone at the front, whose dimensions
L=0, 4 mm, Ø 0,5 mm can be forgotten for a total length of 2,5 mm because it should very hard to get it done.
First I've removed the stub on the cap and gradually drilled it out to Ø 1,2 mm.
And coincidentally there is a round rod from
Evergreen with exactly this diameter that I used.
Then I've sanded off a 2,5 mm long tip at a slightly longer piece,
and glued it into the cap.
And this is what the tentatively attached cap with tip looks like on the
LO2 Tank, which is now complete again.
But I can't glue the tip in yet because I still need the opening for the priming and painting of the tank, for which it is impaled again on the bamboo stick.
