Saturn V Rocket

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Published on June 23, 2012
This thing was Featured on June 25, 2012

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A 4-piece model of the famous lift rocket. According to Wikipedia, "It remains the tallest, heaviest, and most powerful rocket ever brought to operational status and still holds the record for the heaviest launch vehicle payload."

Designed to be just about as big as my UM can print. Haven't run it yet, since it will probably take 10+ hours to print.

I made this from the .3ds model at nasa.gov/multimedia/3d_resources/models.html, and merely sliced it for printing and closed some holes. Cura finds several intersection errors, probably from the nozzles that intersect the base. Still slices fine, though, as far as I can see. If someone has Sketchup Pro and can run the routine that only saves external faces, I'd be much oblidged.

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Has 3.5mm holes for centering pieces when gluing up. If you re-scale this, you'll need to re-do the holes (wa-hey!).
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I separated the escape tower from the main build. This allows for up-scaling of 40%. Now 1/173 scale.

printing one right now at 70% scale since that's as tall as i can safely print on my printrbot right now. it's looking good but i think the fins are going to need a bit of cleanup, they started curling a bit and are now getting some burrs on the ends. they look alright otherwise but i apparently don't have something quite perfect on my printer still. I suspect the cooling fans.

If you're already to the fins, you must be close to done. I'd love to see what you get. When I saw the predicted $16 worth of filament Cura said it would take, I got less excited about test printing full scale.