Recovery hardware. I got 2 beautiful customer made harnesses from Teddy at One Bad Hawk. The new tubular kevlar material is AWESOME. 4000lb break strength. The main harness is 10ft. The Drogue is 35ft. The forged eyebolts are some of Teddy's 3/8in bolts, polished stainless as are the 5/16in quick links. One eyebolt for the nose and the other for the main attachment. Drogue harness will attach to the ARRD anchor shackle.
Main eyebolt epoxied in and torqued down to right torque setting. Used a fender washer on the back to distribute the load on the plate.
Shots of Nosecone coupler construction. A few notes:
Main eyebolt epoxied in and torqued down to right torque setting. Used a fender washer on the back to distribute the load on the plate.
Shots of Nosecone coupler construction. A few notes:
- The coupler is NOT epoxied into place. It is held in place by 6 PEM nuts sized for #8-32 screws. You can see the nut installation in the first pic before epoxy.
- The bulkhead is installed BEHIND the PEM nuts and epoxied into place with fillets on both side. The PEM nuts also get a fillet (you can see this in pic 2). This mounting means the bulkhead has to break the epoxy fillet and shear the screws to pull through (or break in half). Neither is likely.
- The nosecone eyebolt was installed and epoxied into place in the same way as the av-bay eyebolt.