Building an A7l replica Apollo Moon Suit

Here is the last attempt using current materials. I have come to the conclusion that the cotton inspection gloves I have been using as a substrate are too small. I think they are stretched when on the mold and relax when removed causing the latex to wrinkle. So I have ordered some XL size in hopes that will fix the problem.This glove actually looks “not that bad” in person. The flash really highlight the wrinkles and flaws. So I’ll table this project untill the bigger gloves arrive.

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That’s right, prune glove. Not Moon glove. The fingers wrinkled to an un-usable state when I removed the glove from the mold. The same thing happened to the first attempt. I had assumed that it needed to cure longer, so on this one (I’ll call it prototype 1A) I gave it twice the recommended time. Same thing. I noticed at Garber, that the molds the original gloves were made on are rubber. Perhaps the key to de-molding lies in flexible fingers on the mold or actually I think its called a plug. Any way, I am currently casting some rubber “plugs” for my next attempt.

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Having located a source for Teflon coated fiberglass cloth, I ordered some that closely matched the CCM I had on loan. Here are some pictures of my humble (and hurried) attempt at reproducing it. I still have the cable in the back to fabricate and some painting of the exposed hardware parts to do. So here are the pictures:

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