For those of you who like Apollo mission Hardware...

[lmgill]

Upgrade for hatch (Outside view)

 

[Leinads]

This continues to amaze. I’m loving that exterior view through the window - nice touch there! I’m curious, do you ever get the urge to build an entire capsule (if you had the room, $ and a spare decade?)

 

[lmgill]

This continues to amaze. I’m loving that exterior view through the window - nice touch there! I’m curious, do you ever get the urge to build an entire capsule (if you had the room, $ and a spare decade?)

Over the past 24 years, I have built 5 of these:

 

[Leinads]

Over the past 24 years, I have built 5 of these:
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I’m a huge fan if your professional work! No, I was thinking along the lines of a personal projects. Again, beautiful engineering

 

[joberg]

I have an upgrade on that door. (Inside view)
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Oh SNAP!

 

[Kwc271]

This is really cool!! My dad was on the USS WASP CVS18 it was the recovery ship for some of the Gemini missions. He was fortunate enough to be onboard when they picked up Gemini 12.

 

[lmgill]

Here is another replica Apollo fitting.
This the the water (coolant loop) connector.
The plugs, (blue pieces) are real, original Apollo suit, coolant connectors. The internal plug, is inserted into the back of the chest mounted fitting (silver, replica part), this is the coolsuit side. The o-ring seal is on this side, as you want the pressure suit sealed when this coolant connector is in, or when the dummy plug is in.
Then the fitting from the PLSS, goes in from the outside. The two plugs have 2 independent channels, one for inlet, the other for coolant outlet, with spring loaded closures. These stay completely independent as the pugs engage each other, and once locked (automatically) into the suit mounted fitting, it provides a path for the coolant to circulate through the coolsuit.