What did you do rocket wise today?

snrkl said:

Spent the day doing laundry.

Well...

Spent the day building rockets in the garage (which doubles as the laundry) and did a few loads of laundry in between.

Damn. If laundry day was like this all the time, I’d be a regular Martha Stewart. (the home maker part... not so much the criminal bits...)




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rharshberger said:

Started work on Orange Crush (yep its going to be painted orange), a stubby rocket similar in style to the Mercury RDR I or II and the Tiny Pterodactyl only with a 38mm motor mount. The airframe is a piece of FG wrapped Loc 3.1 leftover from my L2 cert rocket, the nose cone is from the Tripoli Vegas Yard Sale (thanks Rob Martinez), fins and CRs are cut from scrap pieces of baltic birch I always seem to have laying around the shop, and the mmt is left over from the kids Crayon bank rockets. The rocket will be built predominantly with wood glue except the fillets which will have to be epoxy (fins are ply and airframe is FG wrapped). Currently with all parts it weighs about 14.5ozs, and it should weigh under 2lbs RTF. Motors simmed are every thing between a F40 and a J570.

Any recommended non-flourescent oranges, so far I have seen two that I kind of like Husquvarna Orange, and the Hyundai Veloster Orange, but other input would be welcome.
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rharshberger said:

Started work on Orange Crush (yep its going to be painted orange), a stubby rocket similar in style to the Mercury RDR I or II and the Tiny Pterodactyl only with a 38mm motor mount. The airframe is a piece of FG wrapped Loc 3.1 leftover from my L2 cert rocket, the nose cone is from the Tripoli Vegas Yard Sale (thanks Rob Martinez), fins and CRs are cut from scrap pieces of baltic birch I always seem to have laying around the shop, and the mmt is left over from the kids Crayon bank rockets. The rocket will be built predominantly with wood glue except the fillets which will have to be epoxy (fins are ply and airframe is FG wrapped). Currently with all parts it weighs about 14.5ozs, and it should weigh under 2lbs RTF. Motors simmed are every thing between a F40 and a J570.

Any recommended non-flourescent oranges, so far I have seen two that I kind of like Husquvarna Orange, and the Hyundai Veloster Orange, but other input would be welcome.
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rharshberger said:

Any recommended non-flourescent oranges, so far I have seen two that I kind of like Husquvarna Orange, and the Hyundai Veloster Orange, but other input would be welcome.

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jlabrasca said:

I spent a little time trying to match the metallic-orange/gold Estes Mammoth body tubes. A coat of Rustoleum 2X Real Orange, and two coats of Duplicolor 0503 Orange Mist yielded a bright coppery orange which I decided that I liked well enough. Looks much darker in the photograph. In bright sun it really glows.

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RocketFeller said:

I do love orange rockets...

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Wayco said:

Got up early and bought a bunch of AT motors on Wildman's BSS. Between the Wednesday sale (28 CTI motors) and this morning, (89 AT motors) I almost replaced the motors that I have flown this year. Since I inventoried all the flights I made, I also entered my data in the "2017 Newton Tally" thread here:
https://www.rocketryforum.com/showthread.php?138079-The-2017-Newton-Tally-Thread/page6

Obviously, most people don't get to fly like Sharon and I do, and I feel blessed to have a wife that loves the hobby like I do. Having two L3 fliers in the family, and flying over 250 flights a year takes us out of the norm. No one vendor can supply our needs, so we buy from all the vendors that support the 15 launches we attend each year. So here's a big THANK YOU to Tim and Jackie at Wildmans, David Reese at Wildman West, Chris Short at Chris' Rocket supply, Ruby and Jim at Discount Rocketry, Robert and Gloria at AMW/Pro-X, Mike at Bay Area Rocketry, Scott at Loki, and our secret vendor, Joe H., who fills in all the gaps at the end of the year. Forgive me if I forgot someone, the bigger launches fuzz up my brain a bit, and I might have spent some cash with other vendors somewhere....

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Wayco said:

Obviously, most people don't get to fly like Sharon and I do, <snip> and flying over 250 flights a year takes us out of the norm.

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Wayco said:

Got up early and bought a bunch of AT motors on Wildman's BSS. Between the Wednesday sale (28 CTI motors) and this morning, (89 AT motors) I almost replaced the motors that I have flown this year. Since I inventoried all the flights I made, I also entered my data in the "2017 Newton Tally" thread here:
https://www.rocketryforum.com/showthread.php?138079-The-2017-Newton-Tally-Thread/page6

Obviously, most people don't get to fly like Sharon and I do, and I feel blessed to have a wife that loves the hobby like I do. Having two L3 fliers in the family, and flying over 250 flights a year takes us out of the norm. No one vendor can supply our needs, so we buy from all the vendors that support the 15 launches we attend each year. So here's a big THANK YOU to Tim and Jackie at Wildmans, David Reese at Wildman West, Chris Short at Chris' Rocket supply, Ruby and Jim at Discount Rocketry, Robert and Gloria at AMW/Pro-X, Mike at Bay Area Rocketry, Scott at Loki, and our secret vendor, Joe H., who fills in all the gaps at the end of the year. Forgive me if I forgot someone, the bigger launches fuzz up my brain a bit, and I might have spent some cash with other vendors somewhere....

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Wayco said:

Got up early and bought a bunch of AT motors on Wildman's BSS. Between the Wednesday sale (28 CTI motors) and this morning, (89 AT motors) I almost replaced the motors that I have flown this year. Since I inventoried all the flights I made, I also entered my data in the "2017 Newton Tally" thread here:
https://www.rocketryforum.com/showthread.php?138079-The-2017-Newton-Tally-Thread/page6

Obviously, most people don't get to fly like Sharon and I do, and I feel blessed to have a wife that loves the hobby like I do. Having two L3 fliers in the family, and flying over 250 flights a year takes us out of the norm. No one vendor can supply our needs, so we buy from all the vendors that support the 15 launches we attend each year. So here's a big THANK YOU to Tim and Jackie at Wildmans, David Reese at Wildman West, Chris Short at Chris' Rocket supply, Ruby and Jim at Discount Rocketry, Robert and Gloria at AMW/Pro-X, Mike at Bay Area Rocketry, Scott at Loki, and our secret vendor, Joe H., who fills in all the gaps at the end of the year. Forgive me if I forgot someone, the bigger launches fuzz up my brain a bit, and I might have spent some cash with other vendors somewhere....

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rharshberger said:

Only one you might have forgotten was Bill at BMS. I ordered a mess of parts this morning for my kids stocking stuffers, 3 lpr kits each.

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Wayco said:

Got up early and bought a bunch of AT motors on Wildman's BSS. Between the Wednesday sale (28 CTI motors) and this morning, (89 AT motors) I almost replaced the motors that I have flown this year. Since I inventoried all the flights I made, I also entered my data in the "2017 Newton Tally" thread here:


Obviously, most people don't get to fly like Sharon and I do, and I feel blessed to have a wife that loves the hobby like I do. Having two L3 fliers in the family, and flying over 250 flights a year takes us out of the norm. No one vendor can supply our needs, so we buy from all the vendors that support the 15 launches we attend each year. So here's a big THANK YOU to Tim and Jackie at Wildmans, David Reese at Wildman West, Chris Short at Chris' Rocket supply, Ruby and Jim at Discount Rocketry, Robert and Gloria at AMW/Pro-X, Mike at Bay Area Rocketry, Scott at Loki, and our secret vendor, Joe H., who fills in all the gaps at the end of the year. Forgive me if I forgot someone, the bigger launches fuzz up my brain a bit, and I might have spent some cash with other vendors somewhere....

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