Building/printing Falcon / Dragon / Fairing

[Mognet]

Aha. Now I see the difference. One was wrapped around a hot cup to make it warp

[Chriske]

I gave it away by talking about that cup of tea...dam...
That is not far from the truth indeed.

I used a heat-gun and the 'rocket' itself to push that part against it.
If I go gently I can even bulge the centre part, as is with the real thing.

 

[Gina]

That's cheating!!  Though I have used a similar technique myself!  😁  A craft type hot air gun comes in handy.

Edited July 6, 2020 by Gina

[Chriske]

8 minutes ago, Gina said:

That's cheating!! 

Well no, I did it the easy way...😁
Did you know btw that all printers can print bulged surfaces. All you need is the required software.

[Mognet]

I saw a report on non-planar printing a little while ago. Looks interesting. Seems to only available via a Slic3r plugin at the moment

[Stub Mandrel]

Hopefully coming to Cura soon!

Chris - is there no holding you back?  🙂

[Chriske]

45 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

Hopefully coming to Cura soon!

Chris - is there no holding you back?  🙂

Holding me back....?????😳
I only began...😁

[Chriske]

Testing...on a spare tube. Mounting the brackets for the landing feet.
Not 100% ok, need to redo this.

 

 

[Chriske]

Falcon + Fairing : 2.15m long(threaded rods not included)
Some more minor parts need to be added.

[Chriske]

Our manager Marc aside Falcon9/Fairing

[Chriske]

It's not completely finished yet.
I'm waiting for the decals to arrive. We're also drawing the LUT this very moment.
And now I'm busy assembling the second Falcon9. That second one is no more then the landed first stage covered in soot and landing feet wide open.
Those two Falcon9's will be standing side by side.
The printed parts did not take to long. The main body is a PVC tube. The largest Falcon9 part is Fairing. But that didn't take to long as it is printed in SpiralVase modus.
The longest parts to print (and also in time) were the landing feet. It was a challenge to warm them up an pushing them against a dummie tube. The feet need to have the correct size and shape, there's no room for error. They must connect side by side in the brackets and still be able to rotate the feet up and down.
It took an estimate 22 hours to print all parts.
It's a completely different story compared to the SaturnV rockets I made in the past. All parts of SV were printed. SV took about 48 hours each to print, again in Spiral vase modus and using a 1.5mm nozzle.

[Chriske]

Grab a headphone and while Falcon Heavy is busy launching and also returning set it as hard as your brain allows you.

 

[Chriske]

Still waiting for the decals to arrive, so I can finish this one.

[Chriske]

A few smaller prints to be hung at the ceiling of our planetarium,

second stage, Crew Dragon, etc...

This is a picture of the two engines Falcon9 uses.
The smaller engines(9) for the first stage 'D' type thruster, and the bigger engine(vacuum engine) is used for the second stage.

While printing these I had an idea...🤭

I modified the big one, like this...

Added an empty pot of mayonnaise...

 

removed the labels and filled it with sweets...

And now I have a  F9-wasp-cather

 

I could also print a CrewDragon and replace the trunk with a wasp-cather...😁

 

 

cheers...!😁

[Gina]

Amazing!! 👍

[Chriske]

Busy painting these.

One is Falcon9 with Fairing and the other is with Crew-Dragon and trunk.
To be hung on the ceiling above the other two Falcon9 rockets.

[Chriske]

With these two ends the falcon9 project.
Up to the next one...!

 

[Chriske]

That wasp-trap was ok, but not efficient enough.
Made a modification and now it works just perfectly.
I'll show the drawing because it is not nice to see at, with all these wasps in it...😬

This is V2, nono not the one Werner has built a 'while' ago...
That little thing goes inside the jar to keep the wasps from escaping.

[Chriske]

Added two second stages...

[Chriske]

We sent images to a company to have the decals cut by them.
There were lots of problems with that company. The files we've sent were not high enough resolution, it was not in the correct format, then the files were not big enough, then the files were to big.
Seems that company does everything in it's power not to agree to do that simple job, doing what they're suppose to do, making posters and cutting decals....strange...🤨

So in the end I cut these decals all myself by hand.

Still working on that LUT right now.

For each stages I need 24 bolts M2.5x6

[Chriske]

Meanwhile I got company from a few friends. These two guys, Peter and Michel, are joining the 'Modelling club' at our observatory.

This is what we did last weekend. LUT is now almost completely finished.

 

[Chriske]

Finished...!

[Stub Mandrel]

On 09/09/2021 at 16:27, Chriske said:

Finished...!

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[Chriske]

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[Mognet]

15 minutes ago, Chriske said:

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Seems to be an issue with the link. I get the same message too