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I put some pieces of balsa on the BT with Gorilla Brand CA, then sanded them down quite a bit.
These will allow me to tack on the scoop more precisely, and they will be hidden in there where you can't see them. They are not even a millimeter thick, so adding weight is not to be worried about.
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What type of resin/epoxy do you use to wet out your cloth?
In general what type do people use?
Too many builds at once for me into resource allocation mode, and this one requires about 1.5-1.75 oz. of 20minute epoxy to get finished up, so it is in a box right now, but the Teflon covered couplers are in the BT, the template is cut for the cloth, and when I do get around to it, it'll be an afternoon build. Also need a retainer still.
I have 7 or 8 half finished birds like this one, all parts ready to go.
I don't do a thread for everything, but there are so many rockets, and so little time!!!
I sometimes feel like the Burgess Meredith character, Henry Bemis, in The Twighlight Zone, "Time Enough At Last", in that all I want to do is build rockets, but life and stuff is always distracting me. Even other rockets distract me.
Too many builds at once for me into resource allocation mode, and this one requires about 1.5-1.75 oz. of 20minute epoxy to get finished up, so it is in a box right now, but the Teflon covered couplers are in the BT, the template is cut for the cloth, and when I do get around to it, it'll be an afternoon build. Also need a retainer still.
I have 7 or 8 half finished birds like this one, all parts ready to go.
I don't do a thread for everything, but there are so many rockets, and so little time!!!
I sometimes feel like the Burgess Meredith character, Henry Bemis, in The Twighlight Zone, "Time Enough At Last", in that all I want to do is build rockets, but life and stuff is always distracting me. Even other rockets distract me.
What type of resin/epoxy do you use to wet out your cloth?
In general what type do people use?
That's funny. I live in an apartment and my work space is soon to be the corner of the room I share with my wife. My half of the closet tends to have less clothes and more rocketry stuff.
I wonder if mid power would need glass on estes tubes.
Looks like a fun process and your small scale version seems smart to do.
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