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Mr_Rocketeer, I had a lot of fun launching with you and Rocketeer41 this past weekend. Despite the crashes and 'chute separations all rockets look fully repairable. My G-Force will require the most...

I am formerly of Westchester County. I now Live in Putnam. We just lost our local field to synthetic turf and we are looking for a new flying field.

Why wouldn't the ejection charge deploy the 'chute? Is this another case of the Aerotech body tube coupler fitting too tight into the rear body tube?

Welcome to TRF, Mr_Rocketeer.

The Estes Eggscalibur is equipped for E engines right out of the kit. That makes the Eggscalibur a MPR. Mr_Rocketeer is correct.

The lesson learned is to not use more heat than needed to dry delicate plastic things. This is why a microwave oven is ideal. A MacBook should be dried on either popcorn or baked potato.

Last week my son, Rocketeer41, brought his Estes Executioner to his Cub Scout den meeting for the "Build a Model" achievement. Two of his den-mates came to me separately to tell me about their own...

You forgot the Motorverkens decals.

I got back into riding my bicycle seriously late this past summer after around twenty or so years away from riding. I still have the Cannondale Black lightning I bought in the spring of 1989. That...

By the way, This D-Region Tomahawk has been assembled with Duco Cement on all of the plastic parts. There is evidence that the Duco melts the plastic quite nicely.

Rocketeer41, that rocket is looking awesome! I saw it on the boiler drying when I got home. Looks like you are just about up to the filler/primer/sand/repeat-until-you-are-sick-of-it stage of the...

Ok, That was pretty darned hilarious!!!

One day it will be easier for us to glue our rockets together with Heroin and paint them with Cocaine.

Ahhh yes. The law of YGWYPF.

Bear in mind, on a project like this the difference in cost of materials is really an insignificant part of the whole cost of the project. Do you want to do this...

I too am a big fan of Wonderbread for plugging up a pipe and preventing water from mucking up my sweats. Even a single drop of water will prevent the joint from getting hot enough for the solder to...

By the way, anybody who questions why the research forum is restricted should read this thread. This is what happens when people read propellant formulas on the web but cannot build a rocket.

QQuake, I had a similar situation about five years ago. One advantage I had which it seems you don't is that I worked for a plumber when i was young.

Forget the Price Pfister set and get an...

The Pinewood Derby was yesterday. My sons and I had a great time. I am quite impressed at how sophisticated the Pinewood Derby has become in the thirty years since I was a Cub Scout. Out pack has...

I have found as much as two weeks of lag in the USPS tracking system.

Fedex and UPS will show the package delivered before I even get back to my desk from answering the door for the delivery man.

I really want to get one of the super bright bicycle head lamps but so far the all talk about some kind of "Software" in the sales literature. I don't need "Software" on my headlight. An On/Off...

As already mentioned in this thread, the manufacturers most often lose money on the sale of printers. The make a killing on the sale of ink!

For my black and white printing (most of my printing)...

I was in the snow removal business some years ago and I used snow blowers; An Allis Chalmers Sno-Bee 7 and a Gravely walk-behind tractor with the snow blower attachment. While the snow blowers I...

We've had some heated discussions about this topic at the fire house where everybody is an expert on everything. The best explanation of the phenomenon goes as follows (as you read it, imagine it...

For the same reasons one would fly a Porta-Potty.

My two sons are in the Cub Scouts and this is Pinewood Derby Season. For those of you unfamiliar with the Pinewood Derby it is a gravity powered race of small cars hand crafted by the Cub Scout and...

Sodmeister, I have got to hand it to you. When I read the title and I see the Phrase, "Man Cave," I immediately think of the henpecked man's last feeble attempt at asserting his dominance over his...

That is awesome!

There is so much unallocated space int he body tube which is just screaming to be used for some sort of payload. I like the mid-body coupling. The Mean Machine I built in my...

C'mon guys. Don't you see what is going on here? The government is denying the missile launch, accidental or intentional. Just like the government to this day still denies responsibility for...

The wizards at MSNBC have hypothesized that this could be a demonstration of an ICBM to let Asia know the the USA is not to be messed with? Wow! I think Japan already knows what kind of fire the...

I guess that makes it a Meaner Machine:dark:.

I am well into the build of my Estes Mean Machine with a 29mm motor mount. I used the core from a roll of aluminum foil for the motor mount tube. It...