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Part 9 Addendum
After reviewing my posts for detailing the hanger I found that a portion of the text had been deleted with references for several photos. I blame over enthusiastic editing (strictly on my part). I had wanted to show some of the photos of the work that went into making the double watertight doors and the Weapons Elevator Doors. After I showed the photo of the Double WTD blank I should have had several photos showing the built up doors in position. I checked all my backups and could not find the missing text so I'm afraid that it is gone forever.
This photo shows the doors at Sponson # 5 going through these doors will bring you to the hanger via another set of double doors between the weapons elevator trunks.
These are the doors at Sponson # 1. They lead to the hanger. This area was the quarterdeck in port when we were tied to a pier. This access to the ship was for officers and chief petty officers. I got these doors a bit crooked but fixed it later.
These are the hanger side doors for Sponson #1.
This is the hanger set of doors for Sponson # 5. Just above this door there will be another double door on the platform. This was access to the ships Calibration Lab and was used to hoist large heavy items up to the shop rather than carry them up 2 flights of inclined ladders. Note that the divisional door tracks are beginning to fail.
This photo shows the double doors over Elevator 3. This is also an access for the calibration lab to hoist items from the elevator when it is lowered. This area required some additional corrections to make it agree with this reference photo below.
I had to cut away quite a bit of the molded deck and then add the box like door well before gluing on the double WTD.
These open doors lead to the tunnel. This area is primarily Supply and AIMD avionics work centers. Because I had to move the forward bulkhead aft about a 1/2 inch (see part 8 basic construction of the hanger bay) there will be another set of open double WTD aft of this one. It is okay as this would be the alcove around the forward most weapons elevator trunk. I am going to add ramps for both of these doors.
This is the set of doors leading to the Yellow Shirt Locker. I haven't placed any of the vertical ladders or the platforms yet.
This the installed Powerplants door looking in or forward from the fantail.
This will become the interior bulkhead for Powerplants. I have installed the ramps and the L brackets will later be covered.
The 3D printed engine on a trailer. The reorganization of shapeways was a great loss of detail parts. I now wish that I had spent more getting items that are no longer available unfortunately money is a finite resource.
Happily the engine and stand fit through the doors.
After this section on the double doors I would have gone back into the text in Part 9 post 2 which explained about the Weapons Elevator Doors.
Several Weapons Elevator Door parts blanks on the cutting mat fresh out of the Silhouette.
This piece has just had all the chads removed. Some of the plastic bits are nearby on the mat. That part actually went fairly easy.
These three parts stacked up make up one door.
Here the door is installed on the forward elevator trunk.
The door on the aft trunk has been added as well as frame detail on both trunks.
This photo show the nearly finished elevator trunks with the pulley system represented.
Because of the trouble I had with getting the large amount of details written up in part 9 correctly I am thinking about going to a reduced amount of material in each post. I am currently working on the 3 Hanger fuel stations and I am thinking of trying a post just dealing with those. What do you prefer longer or more frequent?
After reviewing my posts for detailing the hanger I found that a portion of the text had been deleted with references for several photos. I blame over enthusiastic editing (strictly on my part). I had wanted to show some of the photos of the work that went into making the double watertight doors and the Weapons Elevator Doors. After I showed the photo of the Double WTD blank I should have had several photos showing the built up doors in position. I checked all my backups and could not find the missing text so I'm afraid that it is gone forever.
This photo shows the doors at Sponson # 5 going through these doors will bring you to the hanger via another set of double doors between the weapons elevator trunks.
These are the doors at Sponson # 1. They lead to the hanger. This area was the quarterdeck in port when we were tied to a pier. This access to the ship was for officers and chief petty officers. I got these doors a bit crooked but fixed it later.
These are the hanger side doors for Sponson #1.
This is the hanger set of doors for Sponson # 5. Just above this door there will be another double door on the platform. This was access to the ships Calibration Lab and was used to hoist large heavy items up to the shop rather than carry them up 2 flights of inclined ladders. Note that the divisional door tracks are beginning to fail.
This photo shows the double doors over Elevator 3. This is also an access for the calibration lab to hoist items from the elevator when it is lowered. This area required some additional corrections to make it agree with this reference photo below.
I had to cut away quite a bit of the molded deck and then add the box like door well before gluing on the double WTD.
These open doors lead to the tunnel. This area is primarily Supply and AIMD avionics work centers. Because I had to move the forward bulkhead aft about a 1/2 inch (see part 8 basic construction of the hanger bay) there will be another set of open double WTD aft of this one. It is okay as this would be the alcove around the forward most weapons elevator trunk. I am going to add ramps for both of these doors.
This is the set of doors leading to the Yellow Shirt Locker. I haven't placed any of the vertical ladders or the platforms yet.
This the installed Powerplants door looking in or forward from the fantail.
This will become the interior bulkhead for Powerplants. I have installed the ramps and the L brackets will later be covered.
The 3D printed engine on a trailer. The reorganization of shapeways was a great loss of detail parts. I now wish that I had spent more getting items that are no longer available unfortunately money is a finite resource.
Happily the engine and stand fit through the doors.
After this section on the double doors I would have gone back into the text in Part 9 post 2 which explained about the Weapons Elevator Doors.
Several Weapons Elevator Door parts blanks on the cutting mat fresh out of the Silhouette.
This piece has just had all the chads removed. Some of the plastic bits are nearby on the mat. That part actually went fairly easy.
These three parts stacked up make up one door.
Here the door is installed on the forward elevator trunk.
The door on the aft trunk has been added as well as frame detail on both trunks.
This photo show the nearly finished elevator trunks with the pulley system represented.
Because of the trouble I had with getting the large amount of details written up in part 9 correctly I am thinking about going to a reduced amount of material in each post. I am currently working on the 3 Hanger fuel stations and I am thinking of trying a post just dealing with those. What do you prefer longer or more frequent?
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