slaak
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After mainly lurking on this forum for the past couple years, I decided its time for me to try and give back what I can and what I have learned by writing my very own build thread!
This rocket will be a scratch build 3 minimum diameter with a bunch of uniqueish parts. Over the past year I have become obsessed with machining so I bought a small milling machine over the winter and converted it to CNC and recently picked up a small manual lathe. With these tools Im going to try and make some fancy looking and multi-purpose aluminum parts.
Here are some stats on my proposed rocket.
Body: 3 carbon tube.
Motor: 75mm AeroTech M650W (Longburner).
Nosecone: 5.5:1 Filament Wound fiberglass (Blue).
Fins: .070 6061 Aluminum with .21 Al fillets X 4.
Bulkheads: 6061 Al made using CAD/CAM.
Max alt. ~33k ft.
Recovery : 4 RocketMan main, tumble at Apogee.
Tracking: 100mW BeeLine GPS.
Flightcomp: 2x RRC3.
Most of the parts for this rocket are at some stage of completion, but it is still unassembled and many parts need some finishing work done to them.
I am a huge fan of pictures and not a fan of text so I will try to include as many pictures of my process as I can but will happily answer any questions.
Here goes some pictures!
SolidWorks render
The business Area. the front tube will house the rockets parachute and will act as a chute cannon, there will be and end plug which isnt shown that holds the apogee charges.
Electronics Bay, AFT looking FWD.
Aft Bulkhead ,AFT looking FWD. I went for an ISOgrid design style on this part to keep it light, The 3 outer holes will have 10-32 bolts going threw them to some Al posts that span the E-bay and the center theaded hole will hold the 3/8 bolt that screws into the motor closure.
Aft Bulkhead, FWD looking AFT
FWD bulkhead. The two 3/8 holes which would make up the eyes of the smiley face will hold blackpowder to launch the rockets parachute and the tube going threw the mouth will be where the recovery cord is routed.
E-bay sleds, AFT looking FWD
Sleds on bulkhead, center bolt screws to motor closure and holds the whole rocket together!
Assembled Electronics bay
Electronics bay asm, AFT looking FWD
More to come!
This rocket will be a scratch build 3 minimum diameter with a bunch of uniqueish parts. Over the past year I have become obsessed with machining so I bought a small milling machine over the winter and converted it to CNC and recently picked up a small manual lathe. With these tools Im going to try and make some fancy looking and multi-purpose aluminum parts.
Here are some stats on my proposed rocket.
Body: 3 carbon tube.
Motor: 75mm AeroTech M650W (Longburner).
Nosecone: 5.5:1 Filament Wound fiberglass (Blue).
Fins: .070 6061 Aluminum with .21 Al fillets X 4.
Bulkheads: 6061 Al made using CAD/CAM.
Max alt. ~33k ft.
Recovery : 4 RocketMan main, tumble at Apogee.
Tracking: 100mW BeeLine GPS.
Flightcomp: 2x RRC3.
Most of the parts for this rocket are at some stage of completion, but it is still unassembled and many parts need some finishing work done to them.
I am a huge fan of pictures and not a fan of text so I will try to include as many pictures of my process as I can but will happily answer any questions.
Here goes some pictures!
SolidWorks render
The business Area. the front tube will house the rockets parachute and will act as a chute cannon, there will be and end plug which isnt shown that holds the apogee charges.
Electronics Bay, AFT looking FWD.
Aft Bulkhead ,AFT looking FWD. I went for an ISOgrid design style on this part to keep it light, The 3 outer holes will have 10-32 bolts going threw them to some Al posts that span the E-bay and the center theaded hole will hold the 3/8 bolt that screws into the motor closure.
Aft Bulkhead, FWD looking AFT
FWD bulkhead. The two 3/8 holes which would make up the eyes of the smiley face will hold blackpowder to launch the rockets parachute and the tube going threw the mouth will be where the recovery cord is routed.
E-bay sleds, AFT looking FWD
Sleds on bulkhead, center bolt screws to motor closure and holds the whole rocket together!
Assembled Electronics bay
Electronics bay asm, AFT looking FWD
More to come!