[ATTACH=CONFIG]242767[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]242768[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]242769[/ATTACH] the part in question is prefix 929… Really flimsy bit of metalwork.
Hi Hindenberg
The ‘step’ metalwork may well have been ‘solid’, that would have helped I suspect. Steel possibly? I guess in your line of work you would know better than me what would have worked. It seems to have two steps, the lower looks like it is a curved tube or rod to keep a right foot from slipping out/off and the upper looks like a triangular platform for the left foot. Possibly it wasn’t square because that shape would have been in the way of something else?
I’ll put up the missing parts of the picture tonight. I remember vaguely that there was a mod to the Astrodome for a sextant mount? The illustration is from a very early MKI so there may be things that were added/moved/modded later. I’m not sure what other part you are referring to but there is another bit of metalwork hanging down with a ‘garden gate’ latch on the end, I would suspect that that was to latch the opened Astrodome/hatch cover (whichever they had in place) to stop it from swinging about.
Cheers
James
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