New build, 5 Finger Death Punch

My rocket building obsession is strong, and I am weak. Therefore, I am starting yet ANOTHER build.

There is a heavy metal band called "5 Finger Death Punch". That name is too good not to use on a rocket. So I designed a simple 5.5" five finned rocket with a 54mm motor mount. Single deploy, motor eject, and not even zipperless. I may put half moon baffles in the motor tube because it's so long, even though I'll still use a blanket. I'm not totally set on the colors yet, but I was thinking black and blue go along with "punch".

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I'm still waiting for the components, but I started on the fins and centering rings. The fins are 1/4" birch plywood from Michael's. I had some trouble laying out the template on the plywood, but finally got it figured out. I was able to get three fins from one 12" x 24" sheet. As usual, I drilled the blanks and pinned them together so I could cut and sand them all at once. Some of my 1/4" wood dowel pins have come up missing, thanks to my son, and I didn't have another 1/4" dowel. So I used some pieces of 1/4" aluminum rod I had.

Cool I'll be watching!!

I didn't get the blanks lined up just right, so I had to redraw the trailing edge line. No worries. I cut the fins out with my bandsaw, using the rip fence to get the tabs as uniform as possible. I match sanded them with my stationary belt sander.

I don't have a hole saw big enough for 5.5" centering rings, so I used a homemade circle cutting jig on my bandsaw. I cut them to their final size on the lathe. Fortunately, I had a short length of 5.5" tube left over from a previous build. I used that to get the diameter just right.

The center holes were cut with a 2-1/4" hole saw, which is the perfect size for the 54mm motor tube. I epoxied waste blocks onto the rings for the rail buttons and tee-nuts.

I drilled 3/16" holes for the 6-32 tee nuts, and hammered them in place. Then epoxied them so they can't push out, being careful not to get epoxy in the holes.

I sanded the rail button blocks flush with the edges using my disc sander. I marked and drilled 9/32" holes for the 1/4" u-bolt. Yes, I'm paranoid. Even though I'll be covering the nuts with epoxy, I still used flat and toothed lock washers.

And covered the nuts with epoxy. I put some 6-32 screws in the tee-nuts just to make sure I hadn't gotten any epoxy in the threads.

I love the name.

You need to use one of these as a nose cone -



Krusty

Please tell me I see 5 fins there!!!

Looking great, as always.

Excellent idea...in keeping with the theme.

rocketgeek101 said:

Cool I'll be watching!!

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Thank you, but this won't be a very exciting build. Just another BDR (Big Dumb Rocket) that I seem to be developing a fondness for.

Scotty Dog said:

I love the name.

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Yeah, like I said, it's too good a name not to use! I saw a brass knuckle decal on a car with 5FDP on it. I had to have my son look it up on his phone to figure out what it meant.

awseiger said:

Please tell me I see 5 fins there!!!

Looking great, as always.

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Oh yeah, it has to have five fins!

krusty said:

You need to use one of these as a nose cone -

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Those are awesome, Krusty! Incredible Hulk, I presume? Where on earth did you find those?

o1d_dude said:

Excellent idea...in keeping with the theme.

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Kit! Where the heck have you been, buddy? I haven't seen you for ages. Have you been working on any projects?

qquake2k said:

Those are awesome, Krusty! Incredible Hulk, I presume? Where on earth did you find those?

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Incredible Hulk, yes - but just a google search unfortunately I haven't seen these in the shops for a long time....

Krusty

krusty said:

Incredible Hulk, yes - but just a google search unfortunately I haven't seen these in the shops for a long time....

Krusty

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I did a quick search, but all I found were Hulk gloves.

qquake2k said:

I did a quick search, but all I found were Hulk gloves.

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"Hulk Hands"

There's a few on ebay, too

Krusty

I'd like to chime in partly because 5FDP is my absolute favorite band of all time!!!

Where are you getting the decals? I'm working on a 5" Jart (with 98mm motor mount) and I want to call it Menace after the song on the American Capitalist album:
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WARNING: LANGUAGE NSFW

I want to get the words "Five Finger Death Punch", the skull, then on the other side have the word "Menace"

The build looks good so far, I'll be watching this one

P.S Can't wait for the new album at the end of July!

Qquake,
How do you keep your bandsaw cutting so straight? My saw is a skill and it does good. if I raise the guard that high it's difficult to cut much ot anything. Also do you set up a vacc of sort to collect dust?

Please obsess over more rockets. I learn a lot from you and your work.

Target said:

Qquake,
How do you keep your bandsaw cutting so straight? My saw is a skill and it does good. if I raise the guard that high it's difficult to cut much ot anything. Also do you set up a vacc of sort to collect dust?

Please obsess over more rockets. I learn a lot from you and your work.

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I think it's the blade. Mine is 14t and 3/8" wide.

LOL nice name. I'm sure Mark can make you any vinyl you want. Just take a look at my Mini Magg!:headbang:


TA

I've decided to stretch it a bit. I increased the body tube length to 38", for an overall length of 53".



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Tale Of The Tape.

It's starting to look like a 5.5" Wildman Jart.

o1d_dude said:

It's starting to look like a 5.5" Wildman Jart.

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Does the Jart have five fins?

qquake2k said:

Does the Jart have five fins?

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Um....no.

But he does make a 2 stage Jart.

Are you going to try an in-the-nosecone dual deploy system Like Jeff G uses?

o1d_dude said:

Um....no.

But he does make a 2 stage Jart.

Are you going to try an in-the-nosecone dual deploy system Like Jeff G uses?

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You know, I thought about trying the in the nose cone dual deploy with a line cutter on Running With Scissors, and with this one. I still want to someday. In fact, I'd love to put a J135 moon burner in 5FDP. But for right now, I want to keep things simple. I really need to finish X-Plane and Bluto. Both are dual deploy with redundancy. Those two are more than enough for the complex aspect of my rocketry. I'm thinking more and more that I really do prefer big dumb rockets.