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Looks great from where I'm sitting!

Much better.

Okay, I do see it, now that you've pointed it out. (No pun intended!)

Another vote for the J420R!

I love redneck rockets!

Fat bottomed rockets and fat bottomed girls!

I like the design!

I'm a slightly bigger fan of Redlines over Mojave Greens. What are the altitude sims?

I think out of all the names that have been suggested, I'm leaning towards "RUNNING WITH SCISSORS" and "LUCIFER'S MORTAR".

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Yeah, that's what I was describing. Of course, I didn't think about flying it without the payload section and putting the nose cone in the aft body tube. That would work too. But regardless, if you...

The problem I see with doing it according to the instructions, is if you epoxy the coupler into the payload section, you won't be able to use it for dual deploy later. You'd have to purchase another...

Too many good names. I do like "Lucifer's Mortar".

Wow Ari, awesome photos!

Damn Scotty, that is absolutely gorgeous!

And the obligatory dry fit.

I obviously can't use an Xacto knife to cut the fin slots in the phenolic tube. So I decided to try my new Nextec circular and jig saws. They worked, I got one slot cut. But it would probably have...

Okay, I was being incredibly stupid. I was comparing the locations of the fin tabs without the tail cone in the body tube. Looks like I may have to trim a small bit from the tabs, but that's all. And...

Because of the placement of the aft centering ring, I thought I'd have to trim the fin tabs, and that the tabs would actually be epoxied to the motor tube behind the ring. But as I'm looking at the...

Just some random photos of the retainer. Because of the tail cone, that's how far the motor tube will stick out, and how far in the aft centering ring will be.

A short fat motor mount for a short fat rocket!

I cut the 54mm cardboard motor tube to length, also with the bandsaw. Using some 1/4" nuts instead of my usual nylon spacers, I epoxied the forward centering ring to the motor tube. I used the 1/4"...

The phenolic body tube cut real easy with the bandsaw. I cleaned up the edge with some 320 grit. Also got the nose cone shoulder cut, and the fin lines marked. I'm liking the dimensions of this one....

Yeah, I think I'm happy with it.

The actual OD of the phenolic tube is 4.024", so the tailcone doesn't quite fit perfectly. But I think it's plenty good enough.

Because I don't want anything sticking out below the tailcone, I also ordered a c-clip style slimline retainer from Giant Leap. I think it's going to work great!

I really like the nose cone. There's no flash, and the seam isn't too bad. It fits the phenolic tube perfectly. For comparison, that's a 4:1 ogive from Mercury Engineering on the left, and a 3:1...

I finally got the body tube and nose cone from Giant leap. The phenolic body tube looks pretty good. But the grooves are worse than I expected. It says on their website:

"Microseam Phenolic, or...

I'm not sure even his mother could love that face. Poor dog.

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