Spool Rocket Gallery

[Micromeister]

Can I downscale a Spool Rocket? Will it back tumble like the full size CD spool rockets? Had to find out..
My Micro Spool consists of two 1-1/2" x .040" Clear Polycarbonate discs covered with adhesive backed Party pack metalflake mylar. core tube is standard T2+ with an outer sleeve of T2++ between the discs covered with silver adhesive backed mylar. epoxied the discs at the ends of the motor tube with the spacer sleeve epoxy mounted between the disc. 3/16" T2 motor stop allows the MMX-II motor to extend 1/8" for the 1/8" projecting T2+ motor tube allowing friction and external taping.
a simple .052" hole beside the OD of the core tube aligned in both disc's serve as Launch lugs. Total Ewt = 3.9g LOWt: 5grams. Max altitude 25feet and yep at apogee it flipps backwards, spinning wildly all the way to the ground. KEWL in any size;)

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[MarkII]

Here are photos of a couple of rockets that I built that are literally spool rockets. The airframes are actual wooden thread spools. I constructed the two of them in about a half an hour. They are in fact stable, and have, umm, amusing flights. ;)

Hey, what can I say?

My build article for them is here. (http://www.rocketreviews.com/scratch-micromaxx-spool-rocket-by-mark-kulka.html)

[H_Rocket]

Here we go

The Armageddon Industries Spool o'Doom

I think Dan Michael tossed this at me and said "fly this...."

Roughly 13" in dia, 12" long, and less than $1 is junk parts to make it work. The MMT is a leftover part of a KwickSwitch 38 tube, the parachute I found somewhere.

Retention is a window clip I found on the ground - held in with a drywall screw. The hard point is an eye bolt from a crashed rocket I found in a dumpster.

I fly it on a Loki I110 (4 sec burn) when I can get them.

[hcmbanjo]

Here are photos of a couple of rockets that I built that are literally spool rockets. The airframes are actual wooden thread spools. I constructed the two of them in about a half an hour. They are in fact stable, and have, umm, amusing flights. ;)

Thanks Mark!
I've got another project now thanks to your post.
I never thought of using an actual thread spool before. And, it's wooden, not plastic. Perfect.

[Micromeister]

Standard 4-7/8" (CD) size spools are also a lot of fun. making the dics out of .040" Polycarbonate removes the necessity to repair one of the discs after each flight. On it's 10th flight, a C6-0 cato'ed distroying the body tube but both dics were completely unhurt and reused to rebuild...now on it's 21 flight:)