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I just registered for LDRS: Black Rock and have one question, is camping on the playa really as bad as it seems? I'll be driving with Judy and Jackson Lubin and they are staying at Bruno's, since we...

Are you talking about Silver Spur 3? I thought that was an electronics failure. Having the shoulder "un-cure" then bond to the airframe seems like a highly unlikely situation to me. I think that...

I brought the coupler to Tim's where we put it on the lathe and sanded it until it was pretty tight in the airframe. I then wet sanded it with 1200 grit sand paper until I got a REALLY good fit on...

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Why do you do this to me?

I had sockets, having a four foot long arm (or four foot long magnet) to put the washers on before the nut was the issue. I think I'm just going to glue the fins back on my extreme dark star and fly...

Why am I being called Boing Boing? I thought my new name was "Man Child"?

Here is the car...

It has MonGus style retention, but his rocket is stretched and the motor is designed to hang out the back so the retention plate is 3 feet inside the rocket and my arms aren't long enough to put the...

You can lead a horse to the river but you can't make him drink from it.

1.) I was busy helping people load their rockets onto my pad.
2.) The MonGus is built weird
3.) I didn't feel like...

This was one of the coolest flights I've ever seen if not the coolest.

-MYvMyGeTGI

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Hey, it was easier to get the trailer out that way....I'm selfish :neener:

What's the only way that I can stand out in a field while being burnt to a crisp, not fly rockets and still have a ton of...

Wow, what a great day, pictures and video later.

Just woke up with a face full of Doofus slober, after I get a belly full of Lehr food Ill be over there to set up the pad.

I made small but important progress today.

The coupler has good fit when it is slid all the way in, but when you slide it out a few inches it begins to get some wiggle. To counter-act this, I put...

The only thing I notice in this picture is the unloaded P8000 and the half painted Intimidator 5 tube in the corner........

P.S I need some rings this weekend

I'm going, I'd be glad to help out.

In return, you can take pictures of my N motor flight :)

1 & 2 That wasn't an alright like....
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it was more of an....
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3 It was already painted super matte black :dark: I just changed it to orange and purple...

By the way, I...

Alright :bangbang:

We'll see what we can do, I'll bring it and see what happens.

The paint job isn't too good, so I'm going to call it "ugly duckling"

Same, I have to work until 4 on Saturday, so I will drive down on Saturday afternoon, park the trailer and go to Tim's for any festivities around 6.

Since my Missile Works RRC3s won't be here, I...

I got pulled over a couple years ago right across from Waukegan regional airport for having a broken tail light and had to explain to the police why I had two 10 foot Mongoose 98s in my...

My archetype cable tie cutters came yesterday, now to put them through some tests...

No problem!

Manny, Aerospace Systems Stress Tester

10. I think I just Jart my pants
11. My Jart is faster than your Jart
12. Incredible, hopefully not shredable (title of my Jart thread)
13. This Jart is a work of Art!

Nothing wrong with just drilling and tapping into G10. I did it that way for my level three rocket. After my massive N motor CATO, the screws were still in even after the flange on the retainer was...

That thing was actually a piece of rocketry history. The top section (Av-bay and up) was from the first Ultimate Endeavor ever produced. It was found in Wildman's dungeon....

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Looking back, it's incredible that thing was stable......barely stable.....

I flew a 5000 Ns skidmark cluster about 3.5 years ago (Really Tim flew it for me because I was only 15) from lot E. Although, it did land past the main road to the south almost 3 miles away! :y:

I would believe the lower number. I used a Gizmo XL DD for my level 3 at Midwest Power this past November with an AMW M2200 Skidmark (slightly more impulse than an M2250) and it hit 6100 feet...

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I gave Tim a big bundle of cash last weekend and it is coming in the next CTI shipment.

I have learned some basic rules over the years when working with composites:

1.) ALWAYS scuff before applying any glue
2.) ALWAYS clean after sanding (I use Isopropyl alcohol, really anything...

Basically, the altimeter bay is a 2.6" diameter fiberglass tube that will be bolted to the forward closure. On the last rocket, the altimeter bay was not tied to the airframe in any way so it was...