How 2 Build... A SHIP Well, more like a SHIP garage door opener

By Andrew Zimmerly

This is a SHIP( Seriously Huge Investment in Parts) model I have been working on close to 9
months. That does not mean I was working on it all of those 9 months. Anyway the picture on
the upper right is of the SHIP at the end of last year. And the one beside/below it is a recent(as
in taken today) picture of it. As you can see( with
a magnifying glass) there is not much of the original structure remaining. That is because Brian keeps giving me great but almost impossible ideas, like the automatic garage door openers. Your thinking “garage door openers in space?” I know, sounds weird, but it is incredibly cool! The door is four-way opening and is opened by gears on both sides of the shuttle bay(the largest part of the SHIP).Here is a close-up picture of mechanism. The axles sticking out at the top and bottom are the knobs to open the doors.
The picture below shows exactly how I was able the gears to work properly(took me two days of building to get it to work).