Building an A7l replica Apollo Moon Suit

Picked up the ribbed flex hose today, 5 inch ID. Looks like it will work great!

I turn to the portion of the suit I have sewn, now I see the arms are all wrong, so out comes the seam ripper!

Looking at the photo of the pressure garment in my first post, you can see that at the shoulder there is a wonderful rotating joint just above the start of the elbow joint. This makes one of those mysterious bulges in the ITMG, and starts a transition to a smaller diameter on the arm.

Now I would love to come up with a nice rotating joint for here, and given enough time I probably would. But for this suit, I just want the shape of the joint. So a portion of an eight inch metal elbow from the heating department of the local home center. Cut to approximately the correct shape with tin snips. Will do the trick.

But of course, this replaces a good portion of the arms I had previously sewn. But hey thats how it gos when you are trying something new. So not much progress today, mostly de-construction. With tomorrow being Saturday, I may get something accomplished.

Oh… by the way, I did sew a seam on the IV gloves last night. I just folded about 1/2 inch of fabric long enough to go around the glove, on itself twice and stitched it. Then pined it to the glove covering the backward seam I made. Then stitched it to the leather and to the fabric.

I’ll try to have some pictures to post tomorrow

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