[1.12.5] SIMPLEX Station Parts 1.5 and SIMPLEX Station Part Habs 1.5

[JadeOfMaar]

38 minutes ago, theJesuit said:

I still have no idea how centrifuges would not leak air constantly at the connection point to the rest of the ship.

The air tight seal around the joints will (by my guess) consist largely of the lubricant for the bearings and other contact surfaces where the spinning section meets the static section. The lubricant itself will have enough viscosity and cohesion that it also won't eventually try to escape too.

[Fizzlebop Smith]

There are some really cool seals in the world. I only deal in a handful of macro application but there a "Labyrinthine Seals" of different variations.

I do not know what would be in place for some near future spin G system, but we have built several "expansion joints" for fluid systems that are large enough for people to walk through. There is no inherent rotational factor involved .. but the joint itself is capable. If one end or the other rotated it would function in this capacity.

The expansion joint uses a labyrinthine variation. I haven't really googled space station parts, but i have seen analogous engineering application in some of the mining / pipeline products we have built.

[theJesuit]

Updated and Uploaded!

Now with launch towers, station ground plates, nodes on the launch clamps

New Station Parts Habs:
In the spirit of being stingy with a computer's RAM, this addon redistributes some files from other mods which hold the same share-a-like licence:

Adds in:

• OASIS, a long, 3.75m habitat
  uses Keridian Dynamics (KDVA) Mobile VAB's model, with modified outside and internal textures
  sourced from https://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/topic/202945-keridian-dynamics-kdva/
  maintained by zer0Kerbal, originally by  @Eleusis La Arwall
   
• Centrifuge, an enclosed [sheathed] centrifuge habitat that shouldn't leak air from rotation joint. 
  Nothing visible rotates!
  uses the Porkjet centrifuge1Internal currently part of Tokamak
  sourced from https://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/topic/163166-112x-tokamak-industries-refurbished-parts-featuring-porkjets-hab-pack-major-update/
  maintained by linuxgurugamer, previously Tokamak, originally by PorkJet

[theJesuit]

Hi everyone,

I've been working through my latest playthrough and discovered that the Crew Exit part for the launch tower is missing the encloser with ReStock.  I'll  put out an update with this in the next couple of days .

Another thing which I have found increasingly frustrating is how with fairings, the interstage sections that appear when you use interstage nodes on craft cant be used as a scaffold for surface attaching things.  So, I'm going to make a round section that keeps nodes and has a couple of plates to hang down that will allow the interstage fairings to be more useful.

This will take a couple of days to work through.

Peace.