As far as I know, the hard parts like the glove disconnects and neck ring were a fixed size. Though they did enlarge the ventilation port on the neck ring between A10 and A11.
Thank you!
I asked because a friend of mine did a sculpture of Alan Bean: http://www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum41/HTML/000707.html
He had access to a suit and is the guy who sent me the measurements I posted in the first page of this thread. Anyway, he claims that glove disconnects come in different sizes. The suit he had access to measured 104mm (4"). Either way, I gotta make mine 4".
I think your right. What threw me was the hex bolts at the bottom of the visor mount tab. I think these should be Philips head and the rubber pads are missing. This may have been a rest, or an early one.That's a Global Effects LEVA.
kenlandrum,Also, thanks for the tip on building from the inside details, I didn't realize the shell was thermoformed...
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I think your right. What threw me was the hex bolts at the bottom of the visor mount tab. I think these should be Philips head and the rubber pads are missing. This may have been a rest, or an early one.
Edit: Looking at it again, yes this is and early piece we made for HBO's "From The Earth to the Moon". The lift tabs and side sun shades are formed aluminum and as yet unpainted.
BTW: that's pretty close to the real ones. We were given an original A7Lb center sunshade to repair and were told we could mold it. Well I realized that since the sunshade covers 2/3 of the helmet arc and we only have .300" clearance, if our LEVVA* was not the same size, the sunshade would crash into the sun visor. It fit perfect!
*Lunar Extra Vehicular Visor Assembly
kenlandrum,
If I understand your drawing correctly, you have the bottom edge illustrated as a square profile with one radius'd side. The bottom flange on the LEVVA shell is circular, with a radius about 0.100" larger than the pressure bubble.
The LEVVA shell clamps over the pressure dome. There is clearance for rubber pads at the back to "grip" the dome. The stainless band in the front is also padded. That is why the .100" larger radius.