A side note about my Argent build. I haven't done much with Epoxy and learned something today.
The instructions told me to use epoxy to attach the nosecone to the small tube, and also to attach the transition to the other end of the same tube. I roughed up the plastic a lot, even cut into it with my hobby knife to make sure the epoxy held. But this was the first time I really used that much epoxy and I failed to mask off the outside of the body tube. Oops.
Looking back if I'd just wrapped the end of body tube, and the end of the nose cone, with a layer of painters tape it would have been easy to avoid the mess. But as I put them together epoxy was running out everywhere and as I wiped it off it smeared onto the tube and looks horrible. The tube/transition is even worse because I was using 5 min epoxy and that was the second one I did with the same batch. I just barely got it done before it was too late. I'm not sure how well epoxy will sand off but I'll try. It sure would have been better if I'd wiped off the excess and then removed the painters tape to leave a clean body tube and nose cone.
Next time I'll know.
The instructions told me to use epoxy to attach the nosecone to the small tube, and also to attach the transition to the other end of the same tube. I roughed up the plastic a lot, even cut into it with my hobby knife to make sure the epoxy held. But this was the first time I really used that much epoxy and I failed to mask off the outside of the body tube. Oops.
Looking back if I'd just wrapped the end of body tube, and the end of the nose cone, with a layer of painters tape it would have been easy to avoid the mess. But as I put them together epoxy was running out everywhere and as I wiped it off it smeared onto the tube and looks horrible. The tube/transition is even worse because I was using 5 min epoxy and that was the second one I did with the same batch. I just barely got it done before it was too late. I'm not sure how well epoxy will sand off but I'll try. It sure would have been better if I'd wiped off the excess and then removed the painters tape to leave a clean body tube and nose cone.
Next time I'll know.