Forced_Induction
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Hello all,
First post for me on this forum. At the beginning of this year my dad bought my 2 year old son an estes starter kit for christmas. Hes a snap-on tools dealer and gets the snap-on rockets as promotional items. Ive flown rockets as a kid (now 31) but didnt think my son would love them as much as he did. Me being an avid RC hobbyist as well, it didnt take much convincing to get me involved.
We lost that rocket due to a broken shock cord and then bought an estes black diamond. It is a fun rocket with 13 flights on it now, but im not a fan of the plastic fins and decided i could do better for cheaper seeing as im tooled up for rc plane kits. Ive since build 3 more rockets using BT50 tubes and fired 3 reloads on my rms 18/20. Ive also bought an rms 24/40 and 12 more reloads, more building materials, a firefly altimeter, and am working on getting an eggfinder.
well the most recent outing was an interesting one. I built a short lightweight rocket using an 8in BT50 body tube. i flew it once on an estes c6-5 and it flew beautifully. according to my firefly it hit 1047ft and 322mph. so for the next flight i loaded a d13w-10 reload into it and lit it off. It hauled ass! flew incredibly well. and when it came time for the ejection charge, saw the smoke puff, and nothing else. at all. no parachute, no pieces, nothing. i hunted in the field for a while but nothing was to be seen.
It was impressive to watch, but im disappointed i lost my rms 18/20 and firefly. My question is this: how loose should the nose cone be in the tube? the first ejection on the c6-5 was fine, but this nose cone was a bit tighter than any of my other rockets. could it have blown the rocket apart? It wasnt a really tight fit but more snug than the others i built.
any thoughts?
PS: this hobby is as addicting as the others ive got going. seeing that rocket haul ass with the relaodable motor was incredible! I cant wait to put together a BT55 rocket for mt RMS 24/40!
First post for me on this forum. At the beginning of this year my dad bought my 2 year old son an estes starter kit for christmas. Hes a snap-on tools dealer and gets the snap-on rockets as promotional items. Ive flown rockets as a kid (now 31) but didnt think my son would love them as much as he did. Me being an avid RC hobbyist as well, it didnt take much convincing to get me involved.
We lost that rocket due to a broken shock cord and then bought an estes black diamond. It is a fun rocket with 13 flights on it now, but im not a fan of the plastic fins and decided i could do better for cheaper seeing as im tooled up for rc plane kits. Ive since build 3 more rockets using BT50 tubes and fired 3 reloads on my rms 18/20. Ive also bought an rms 24/40 and 12 more reloads, more building materials, a firefly altimeter, and am working on getting an eggfinder.
well the most recent outing was an interesting one. I built a short lightweight rocket using an 8in BT50 body tube. i flew it once on an estes c6-5 and it flew beautifully. according to my firefly it hit 1047ft and 322mph. so for the next flight i loaded a d13w-10 reload into it and lit it off. It hauled ass! flew incredibly well. and when it came time for the ejection charge, saw the smoke puff, and nothing else. at all. no parachute, no pieces, nothing. i hunted in the field for a while but nothing was to be seen.
It was impressive to watch, but im disappointed i lost my rms 18/20 and firefly. My question is this: how loose should the nose cone be in the tube? the first ejection on the c6-5 was fine, but this nose cone was a bit tighter than any of my other rockets. could it have blown the rocket apart? It wasnt a really tight fit but more snug than the others i built.
any thoughts?
PS: this hobby is as addicting as the others ive got going. seeing that rocket haul ass with the relaodable motor was incredible! I cant wait to put together a BT55 rocket for mt RMS 24/40!