Hi Everyone,
I just flew a new pack of 2 Estes D12-0 motors last week and both seemed to have a distinctive "pop" after burnout. The second actually had motor ejection out of the rocket (custom cup rocket made for ejecting of motor casing; however I was testing it without ejection). Has anyone ever heard of this happening? I'm sure these were -0s...they even had the red label on them and they were new recent purchase 2-packs.
Unfortunately I'm not sure I can locate the spent casings...the first was thrown into the trash/mixed with other spent motors and the second was ejected in flight.
Note: I really LOVE Estes products; however I seem to be having a spate of issues recently...notable was a Blast Off pack which only included A8-3s when it should have been an assortment of A/B/Cs and it's been a week contacting them about this. Before that was another Blast Off pack with C6's with what seemed like excessive ejection charge (blew apart 2-3 rockets - one of them into 5 pieces another into 4). I'd rather not bother them about yet another issue for now.
I just flew a new pack of 2 Estes D12-0 motors last week and both seemed to have a distinctive "pop" after burnout. The second actually had motor ejection out of the rocket (custom cup rocket made for ejecting of motor casing; however I was testing it without ejection). Has anyone ever heard of this happening? I'm sure these were -0s...they even had the red label on them and they were new recent purchase 2-packs.
Unfortunately I'm not sure I can locate the spent casings...the first was thrown into the trash/mixed with other spent motors and the second was ejected in flight.
Note: I really LOVE Estes products; however I seem to be having a spate of issues recently...notable was a Blast Off pack which only included A8-3s when it should have been an assortment of A/B/Cs and it's been a week contacting them about this. Before that was another Blast Off pack with C6's with what seemed like excessive ejection charge (blew apart 2-3 rockets - one of them into 5 pieces another into 4). I'd rather not bother them about yet another issue for now.