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Manufacturer	Faller
Stock #	319
Description	Jupiter ride
Image
Quantity owned	1
Type	Rides
Area	Future World
Storage	(*AFW) *Completed Model - Future World
Year	1993
Notes
Size	19.5x14.2x16cm

Assembly

Painted most parts with flat white primer.

Painted the base with concrete color spary paint.

Hard to see, but painted a red stripe on the fins instead of using the Faller decals.

Cut a hole in the "Rocket" with my Dremel tool and attached the operator booth. The original model only had a paper attendant in the window because the Faller motor took up the whole interior of the rocket. With the smaller motor, I can now create a complete interior and insert a figure as the operator.

I painted the sweeps and the rockets 3 different metalic colors. I avoided painting the pivot points on the sweeps.

Found a brass, copper, and aluminum hollow rod to cover the sweeps with real metal. I hope it makes it more durable and gives the arms some weight.

The tops and the bottoms of the rockets.

The bottom with a sweep attached.

The completed sweeps with the metal covers.

Used epoxy to attach the rocket cars and painted up the epoxy after it dried.

Epoxied a smaller gear motor that I got off Ebay to the base. The circle it sets on shows the size of the original Faller motor. The new motor is less than 1/2 the size, has metal gears, and is DC so that the speed can be controlled by PWM or other means.

In the middle of the base, I cut and installed a slip disk to cut down on the friction. This is a material that they add to drawers to make them slide easier. It has a very smooth and slippery surface and has better wear characteristics than regular plastic.

The original Faller ride had a dip in the front and in the rear that the rockets lowered to the base as the ride went around. I used a bit of sprue that I heated and shaped to create an even higher arch in the back of the ride, This was glued in place and then filler added to the missing areas.

Here it is after all the material was added but before final shaping.

Getting better.

You can see here that the ride lowers the rockets in the front and makes them go way up in the air at the rear.

The rub-on graphics that were supplied with the ride.

The backdrop and graphics that were supplied with the ride.

Installed a reed switch and magnets so my Picaxe program that will control the ride can tell where the loading sequence starts.

Lighting the ticket booth with an SMD LED.

Rockets installed on sweeps and Preiser riders installed.

Cut off the top to allow the upgrade to an LED light.

Testing the reed switch.

Rocket cone with LED light installed.

Completed Rocket and ticket booth.

Had to shim the plastic piece that holds the light post. This allows the piece to clear the magnets that I added to the gear.

Early test with rockets.

Found one rocket was making a scraping noise because the metal sweep was rubbing the base. Put a little dab of epoxy on the bottom of the silver car to act as a rub bumper.

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