rharshberger
Well-Known Member
We're hoping you get the measurements that are stalling your work....[emoji3]
Yea! I just joined the Nike Historical Society and will be attending their reunion at SF-88 on September 1. I'm hoping that I'll be able to get the measurements that have been stalling my CAD work. I've made up a radius gauge that should be able to measure station diameters on the Hercules nose and tail cones.
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I’m not a scale modeler, but I’m a detail addict.
Can you fix the link for this please?It's been pointed out that the link to my Nike-Hercules data from earlier in this thread is out of date. Not surprising since I've been moving things around in Dropbox. Anyway, here is the current link and I hope it should be stable for a while: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/qbts25mtz7ascej/AAC_1lvHMoLmewxIbZoYmAI5a?dl=0 I've continued to add to that so there should be some new stuff there.
As for this thread, I promise I will get back to this. Right now I'm making good progress on my Nike Ajax CAD build thread.
Well, dagnebbit, you're right of course. Minor problem is that my free Google Drive space is nearly filled up, mostly with many years of old emails, I fear. I could take the time to clean that out; enough anyway to fit the Herc data. Or I could take the time to search for the cheapest cloud storage. Or, I could just pay Google some money. I figure they have enough money, but oh well, I did that. It's currently uploading all of my scale data. That's gonna take a day or so, and I'll post links after.What about Google Drive?
The weld seam on the MIM-14A was specified to be rotated out at about 60-deg. I assume this was to allow easy visual inspection. On the MIM-14C (and maybe the MIM-14B) the weld seam should face the center Axis all according to Redstone Arsenal drawings. I have no idea if this was the actual practice.Questions remain:
Any help would be appreciated.
- Radial position of the longitudinal motor weld on the NH assembly? Does it matter? The weld line seems to appear at random in various pictures.
- Is there a 'seamless' motor tube option? Many photos don't appear to have the longitudinal weld lines at all.
- I'd like real dimensions of the nozzle mounting rings and their holes.
- I'd like better data on the holes in the forward flange lip.
- In general, I'm trying to do this to represent the MIM-14C. Any notes on details that distinguish the models would be helpful.
If memory serves me correctly, the pedestal that the upper stage sits on is more of a truncated conical shape than a cylindrical shape. I'll confirm this later.I like the idea of seeing the internal structure - you can see how the thing is actually put together. The bolts for the feet of the support ring go through this mounting plate and into threaded holes in the forward flange of the Nike motors. The base of the sustainer just sits on this support ring - there is no fixed attachment. It's a for-real drag separation at staging.
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Next item will be the interstage shroud, but after about ten hours I think I'm done with it today.
I'd like to see how your CAD drawings compare to the N-H blueprints I obtained from Redstone Arsenal.
It is my goal to share the Redstone Arsenal, Nike-Herc drawing info. (It's not doing any good setting in the corner of my room.) The drawings I have are 24" x 36" copies made from microfiche of the original blueprints. The drawings are too big for my scanner, and some drawings are too faint for scanning anyway. So, I need to transfer the info into CAD and produce something shareable like JPG or PDF files. It's just going to take time to get it done.Would you be willing to share those Redstone Arsenal drawings? I would be willing to supply ALL of my NIKE-HERCULES ( a LARGE amount of data ) in exchange. Send me a PM!
Dave F.
Some Office reproduction services will scan them to a file for you, usually the charge isnt too expensive. And PDF is the better route if possible, since they scale better than jpg.It is my goal to share the Redstone Arsenal, Nike-Herc drawing info. (It's not doing any good setting in the corner of my room.) The drawings I have are 24" x 36" copies made from microfiche of the original blueprints. The drawings are too big for my scanner, and some drawings are too faint for scanning anyway. So, I need to transfer the info into CAD and produce something shareable like JPG or PDF files. It's just going to take time to get it done.
That print of the NH interstage was done on my FDM printer. I don't think it really looks that good in person, I intend to fiddle with my printer some more, but I really haven't touched anything in many months now. In a slightly smaller scale or sliced up it could be done on the common SLA type printer. What I think I'd rather do is split out the components individually for SLA printing to make it sort of a kit assembly. None of that suitable for a flying model of course.Did you get this printed on an SLA printer?
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