ozwald
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Will definitely look you up. Nice job on the finished project. I may want to talk to you and run some things by you concerning my current build and my nosecone GPS setup. I would also like to check out the new fly-aways. I'll buy you a beerYeah, Airfield site. It's funny that you are coming from Cottonwood, my sister just moved there and is planning on coming out Saturday with my mom. We shouldn't be hard to find, AZ flag and a tie-dyed windsock about 20 ft. long.
Now I understand why Mike is adapting his Mongoose down to 38mm. I think the Phoenix metro area is larger than New Jersey, so I kinda understand.
I agree with Watermelonman, it's hard to fly this rocket and keep it in sight. The 2 grain J250 should take it over 6k.
I ran into a problem when I started prepping this rocket, one of the 6-32 pem nuts came loose inside the avbay, so I had to drill out the screw. As I stated before, I'm not happy how they looked, so I redid the whole mess with 4-40 screws and pem nuts. I used black Rocketpoxy to fill the holes in, and re-drilled and countersunk for the smaller screws. It came out a lot better, much easier to work with Rocketpoxy than with carbon fiber. This time I used Rocketpoxy to hold the pem nuts in place. I think the carbon fiber is so thin and brittle, it doesn't hold the pem nuts like fiberglass does.
I also noticed that I had failed to drill vent holes in the payload tube and fincan, so I added 1/8" holes at the top of the payload tube and above the internal retainer on the fincan. After I added the decal, I sprayed it with clear Rustoleum acrylic lacquer. If anybody has checked out my latest build thread, you may have seen these pictures of my Mongoose family:
The rockets in the background are some of the ones we will be flying this weekend with the Superstition Spacemodeling Society. This is my old NAR club that has some issues with HPR flights due to the I-10 freeway nearby. I won't be flying the Mongoose 75 there, or anything over about 8000 ft.
Here is the Mongoose 54 with it's new clearcoat, ready for it's maiden flight:
I will also be trying out the fly away rail guides for the first time. Wish me luck!