Space Shuttle Launch Pad 39A with Challenger STS-6 (1:144)

[RichO]

Congratulations Manfred, and to all of Germany!!

[Revell-Fan]

Vielen Dank! Endlich hat's geklappt!

(BTW, there is still some room for a fifth star... or a sixth... or .... )

[spacerunner]

Originally Posted by RichO

Congratulations Manfred, and to all of Germany!!

Thanks Rich for your congratulations,

on days like this one wishes infinity ...

[spacerunner]

Originally Posted by Revell-Fan

Vielen Dank! Endlich hat's geklappt!

(BTW, there is still some room for a fifth star... or a sixth... or .... )

Thanks Revell-Fan,

I fully agree with you, let us dream together from the 5th star, the show must go on ...

[spacerunner]

Hello dear friends,

thank you once again for all the good wishes and congratulations.



In this sense, cheers on a horny World Cup with our team and the 4th star!

BTW, there is still place for the 5th star ...

[RichO]

MANFRED & ELISABETH,

You two sure look happy and proud about your teams World Cup win!! Good times, good food, good beer!! What could be better. Again...Congratulations!

[spacerunner]

Hello Rich,

thank you again for your congratulations, that's right, we are very proud of our World Cup win!
Now we have compensated with the Italians, where we dine quite often. So far, they could always brag to have a star more than we Germans. Now we also have four stars and they are very quiet, but have our success recognized.

[Revell-Fan]

GREAT to see a picture of the man behind this marvellous thread! Ya know what's best of the fourth star? No-one is able to take it away from us!

[spacerunner]

Yep, this is me with my wife at our Italian, who has become quite silent, since we have won our fourth star, we now proudly wear on our chest until then the fifth will follow sometime ...

[spacerunner]

Hello all together,

yep, hard to believe but there is actually also a life after the awesome World Cup, and therefore it should now go on totally relaxed, especially since nobody can take away from us the 4th star.

And so now to the final countdown with the TSM ladders on the service-flap boxes, at which I am afraid that their assembly probably could be a little tricky because of the different lengths of the support brackets.

Here you can see both TSMs with on-hook ladders, and if you look closely, perhaps can be seen that the ladder on the right TSM is longer than the left, and this has its good reason.



How fortunate that I have again looked at the original photos exactly, because the four PE ladders for the boxes I had already cut, and indeed all of the same length, and I've been always emanated from this image here.


Source: NASA

As can be seen on the ladders extend on the rear of the TSMs approximately over the length of the boxes, since the pipes of the SSWS run underneath.

But on the TSM front the ladders extend up to just above the SSME Blast Shield and are thus a bit longer, which I only now became really clear.


Source: NASA

Just as well that I have compared again and was able to correct.

Next, I've made two sketches with the positions of the base points of the support brackets for the front side (left) and back side (right),



and thus created transparent templates for puncturing the holes for the base points.


With the the template for the front side then I punched out the two outer base points and located it with pins.



Then I punched out the remaining four holes on the box.



But now came the more complicated part of the exercise, the puncturing of the holes behind the box. In order to avoid any possible shift of the template, I have first fastened it in the holes on the box with acupuncture needles (0.2 mm). Then I've gently punctured the holes behind the box.



Then I trial basis plugged into the first support bracket, which can be seen here with the spacer,



and here now freestanding.



Well, that was actually a pretty tricky business, but all in all quite feasible. Long enough I had fiddled at the solution, now I have to repeat the same act "only" three more times ...