Thursday, June 27, 2019

Estes Saturn V #1969 Build, Part 47, Gluing The RCS Nozzles

I'm going to add one hour to the build time for all the touch-ups that were done around the mask areas. I was careful as possible and still had paint get into areas I thought were covered.

TIP: Before the paint is totally dry, you can remove some (isolated) over sprays with a Mister Clean Magic Sponge. Go lightly, a Magic Sponge can dull a gloss finish.



The positioning pins on the back of the RCS nozzles are tiny! You can see it right in the center of the picture.
Mentioned earlier, don't spin drill a hole with a knife blade tip. A sewing needle makes a cleaner, smaller hole.
Make the holes with a pin, then spray the silver.

A very small dot of Fabri-Tac glue was set on the back and the housing pressed in place.
A dot of medium CA glue was set over the pin from the inside.

Assembly time so far:
34:45 minutes previous
  1:00 touch-ups
    :15 this post
35:15 Total so far

1 comment:

  1. That Fabri-Tac is some awesome stuff! It has become my go-to glue for bonding unlike materials.

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