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The piston strap is the nylon one as supplied. I put a 15" nomex sleeve over the lower half.

Acme conformal rail guides have been ordered. Now need to wait on motor retainer until after vacation. Trying to purchase items carefully to maintain marital harmony. My wife doesn't know how much I...

PML's 1/4 scale Patriot with the 38mm mount should be good. After my experiences with building the PML Amraam 3 with quantum tube, I would recommend sanding every gluing surface on the tube and the...

I applied epoxy fillets to all interior fin attachments and then filled the aft end with expanding foam. I realize this is probably overkill for this rocket, but I feel that this provides me with...

Next up - the payload bay. The first thing I decided when building the payload bay was to forgo using the supplied recovery system mounting provided by PML, a rather thin and weak looking eyebolt. I...

After completing most of the external work, I turned my attention back to building the ejection system. First up was building the piston system. The instructions say to thread the free end through...

After finishing the main fins, I turned my attention once again to the forward canards. These particular fins have given me fits since I started building them as it proved nearly impossible to get...

Thanks. I'll probably be installing Giant Leap's conformal rail buttons to be more compatible. Unfortunately, I won't have it ready for this Saturday as I'm still waiting for my motor retainer to...

I looked at those after you mentioned them. Looks perfect for my needs. Also checked out the rockets they offer, need to convince my wife that I have to get one of the Talons.

I'll probably install rail buttons once I find some that will work. The kit uses piston ejection so traditionally mounted rail buttons using tnuts through the tube wall won't work.

I'm building a PML Amraam 3 for my L1 cert. Before I can go much further, what rods are available for hpr at MMMSC? The kit comes with 3/8 inch lugs and I need to know if I need to replace them....

Update on the nomex shock cord protector for the piston strap. I purchased a Sunward 30 inch long nomex sleeve for the piston strap and installed it along with the piston and remaining recovery...

Now that I have some epoxy issues resolved, I am able to return to building the Amraam 3. After the motor mount was in place and cured, I turned my attention to the main fins. Whenever I build a 4fnc...

We're in business! Just got back from my lhs and they put me in contact with another customer who is using Aeropoxy to build a home-built plane. I was able to procure some ES6209 resin and hardener...

I've already sent them an E-mail. Waiting for a response.

There are other things I need, so it's not a big deal. Plus it's only a couple of miles. More than likely they won't have what I want, even though they deal with a lot of composite rc turbine jets...

I'm making a trip to my lhs tomorrow to see if they carry Aeropoxy ES6209, but I doubt it. If not, will be ordering some from Giant Leap. I don't like having to put this project on hold, but do want...

So, the Bob Smith epoxy I used to construct the motor mount seems sufficiently strong for bonding porous materials, but bonding fiberglass fins to the quantum tube material is proving to be...

If you ever have the chance, you have to visit the Air Force Museum in Dayton, OH, to view the sole surviving XB-70 in person. Without a doubt, one of the most majestic and awe inspiring aircraft...

While pondering how to approach the piston strap with or without a nomex sleeve quandry, I decided to go ahead with at least installing the motor mount and fins. I decided that I would use PML...

Before going much further with this build, I have a question. Is adding a nomex shock cord protector to the piston strap a good idea? I'm thinking about ordering one to hopefully add to the longevity...

And...here...we...go! I started my Amramm 3 build today by assembling the Kwik Switch motor adapters and the main motor mount tube. Main 54mm tube, 38mm tube, 29mm tube along with centering rings and...

Before I begin building this rocket, I hope someone can give me a recommendation as to what epoxy to use. I have some Bob Smith 15 minute epoxy and need an opinion as to whether this would have...

This will be my first attempt at posting a full build thread as well as my first build of a true HPR. After a few delays due to Red Arrow Hobbies not putting my complete shipping address, as...

Update on the amraam 3. After ordering from Red Arrow, I tracked the package with FedEx and found that the package was undeliverable because the address on the label was incomplete. I double checked...

Amraam 3 is now ordered. Can't wait until it shows up.

Looking to build a Public Missiles Amraam 3 for my L1 attempt. Any thoughts? I've done some research and it seems like a nice looking rendition of the real missile with some decent construction.

Thanks for the ideas. Once I finally have a day off, I'll start working with these ideas and have a follow-up post about how things go.

As far as switching to Cesaroni gear, I began using their...

I have an Aerotech Initiator and an Aerotech IQSY Tomahawk which I built several years ago and want to know if anyone has any ideas of how to successfully convert them to use Cesaroni reloadable...

Looks good so far. I would recommend doing as much surface finishing as reasonably possible before final assembly. Some of the areas on the underside of the rocket can present a real challenge to...