Can you clean unlinked parts off a ship?

[Entelin]

Some parts, after you are done with a previous stage leave part of themselves on your rocket. Things like struts, pipes, radial attachment points, etc.

Is there a mod or program that can go through a launched ship and clean that stuff off? I'd like to do so for visual & performance reasons (keeping part count to a minimum).

Thanks.

[vexx32]

As far as I recall... the last time this was thoroughly investigated, it was concluded that the 'nubs' left behind on ships are graphical-only; they do not function as parts at all.

I've not heard of a mod that'll clean them off, either. I'm not 100% certain, but afaik the nubs disappear if you go to space centre and reload the ship and/or restart the game.

[Albert VDS]

You can use KAS to remove and replace small parts from your craft.

It's also possible to make the bigger parts do the same.

[Maxander]

I think structural pylons leave nothing once its ejected and the struts points will be gone the next time you load if they were first attached to the ejected piece.

I used this to make a space station without all the rcs points needed for docking as they were attached to the pylons and removed when everything was were its supposed to be.

Created lots of debrie but got me a really low part and clean station. .

Using KAS for cleaning of most the stock radial attached stuff also work.

[ScottyDoesKnow]

One way to reduce this is to always place struts going from first stages to later stages. When you drop a stage with struts, they don't leave anything on the surfaces they were attached to, only the surface they were attached from.

[Vanamonde]

Leave the ship momentarily and go back to KSC, then resume the flight from the tracking station. If I recall correctly, everything except fuel line nubs will have vanished.