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by tibbydudeza 778 days ago
There was some cavitation issues in the "injector plates" of the F1 where the LOX and kerosene mixed with was resolved by drilling holes in it until it went away - there was no method to the pattern just drilling holes in a pattern until it went away.

Also each F1 differed slightly from the engineering design as they found issues and fixed it en-situ.

In short copying 1960's designs today is not going to work.