If you could go back in time....

Here is a fun question:

If you could go back in time to when you first started rocketry and tell your past self ONE THING (lets's make it one sentence). What would it be?

For me it would be:
"Lose the hot glue gun!!!"

When I first started rocketry hot glue was basically the only thing I used. I would attach everything with a low temp hot glue gun, from engine and shock cord mounts, to fins. It was only when I started building my 2nd or 3rd MPR rocket did I start using more epoxy and wood glue then anything else. I greatly regret those dark days. I cant believe I ruined a Cosmodrome Nike Smoke with such bad building skills!

"Buy several of every Estes and Centuri kit you can get your hands on, they will be worth a fortune in a few decades."

That's easy: SAVE ONE OF EVERYTHING IN THE CATALOGUES from the 60's!

Take more pictures!

Do your Homework (Math & Sceince!!!) and get into college & Univercity!!!!!

or

Invest in Microsoft / Apple / Autodesk! (it was the 80's when I started my rocketry ways and started high school..)

dr wogz said:

Do your Homework (Math & Sceince!!!) and get into college & Univercity!!!!!

or

Invest in Microsoft / Apple / Autodesk! (it was the 80's when I started my rocketry ways and started high school..)

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And a strange sounding company called "Google".

Get my dad more interested in it so we could have built & flown together(he's been gone for 12 yrs.now)and save a lot more money for this hobby

It's not quite what you're asking, but I wonder how the 13-year-old me would react if the 50-year-old me showed up to tell him about the 12-foot tall rockets I'm now flying.

-- Roger

Dont forget the launch lug

Follow your dream and really start your own rocket company.
PS Lynn Hillcrest just isn't worth the effort

Bazookadale said:

PS Lynn Hillcrest just isn't worth the effort

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:rofl:

Boy do I have a list of those....

Don't worry about what anybody has to say about your hobby - just do it to the best of your ability.

The fins at the bottom have to be a lot bigger than the fins at the top! :y:
(Fortunately none of my obviously-unstable designs were flown before I learned about CP and CG. Whew!)

Forget the Electro-launch -- go for an alternate system and a motorcycle battery.

tell my Mom just how important it will be to take me back to the store get the Estes Saturn 1b when I first saw it there, in all of its glory.....instead of waiting a month and when we returned it was gone (never to be seen again...)...37 years later, I had to buy every single on of Dr. Zooch's saturn 1b's to fill the void....

Don't wait 50 years to get started in the hobby!

One of these words. Either TARC or Aerotech.

Sell your IBM and buy Microsoft at IPO.

Get my dad more involved....(so we could spend more time together like my vacation week when he taught me to weld!)

Scotty Dog said:

Dont forget the launch lug

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This one.
Can I go back multiple times for this same reason?

s6

When you're 36 and she asks you to marry her....just say NO!

Also:
Invest in Apple stock.

Don't let your mom throw out your Rockets and "GI Joe" stuff (the original 12" wit da Kung Fu Grip) while you're off at Basic.

Oh gosh. Time travel causes headaches. I believe that migraine headaches are actually "timequakes" caused when changes to our past travel up the continuum and reach us.

If I were offered time travel (backwards), I wouldn't take it anyfurther back than late 2006, because that was the time when my youngest child was conceived. If I changed anything prior to that, the cascading changes would result in a temporal incursion removing him from my timespace continuum. Even if I had a child at the same time, odds are it would be a different sperm fertilizing the egg. Chaos theory, and all that.

I'll close with this excerpt from Man-Kzin Wars 13, in which some Kzin warriors are talking to each other:

Or, I would go to LDRS27.

PAY FOR EVERYTHING! If you can't buy it outright--save for it and wait---master of frugalness---well, now anyway.

Taking a Homelite chainsaw to the party.... not a good idea.

dr wogz said:

Do your Homework (Math & Sceince!!!) and get into college & Univercity!!!!!

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I am thinking you might want to add spelling to that homework list. :smile:

Get back into rocketry earlier. Put some money on sporting events. Find a few 54 Gardiner Bullets from the Civil War.

BUY GOLD AND SILVER!!!!!!