TheSamurai
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Today was my first launch as a Tripoli member. It wasn't ideal weather to begin with. 35 degrees and winds between 15-20 mph.
Some of you may remember that I just got done building the Estes Ventris that we called Lady Liberty. I built the kit to the exact specifications. It flew on a G80-7T.
The rocket went up just fine and the ejection charge did its job. I also used the Estes Sonic Igniter and it worked fine. But at ejection the entire shock cord mount came out with it. I used a pretty strong superglue that I have used with many other rockets. When I rebuild this rocket or buy another one, I was wondering what tips you guys had for a different kind of shock cord mount and where do you get the Kevlar to make a shock cord. The elastic ones that Estes has I am told on here and at the launch are unreliable, even though it wasn't the culprit today. It may have snapped if the mount had stayed in place but I guess we'll never know. : (
And to top it all off I lost the Altimeter 1 that was attached to the nose cone. Oy.
On a positive note, my kids Estes Code Red went up without any problems on a C6-5. : )
Some of you may remember that I just got done building the Estes Ventris that we called Lady Liberty. I built the kit to the exact specifications. It flew on a G80-7T.
The rocket went up just fine and the ejection charge did its job. I also used the Estes Sonic Igniter and it worked fine. But at ejection the entire shock cord mount came out with it. I used a pretty strong superglue that I have used with many other rockets. When I rebuild this rocket or buy another one, I was wondering what tips you guys had for a different kind of shock cord mount and where do you get the Kevlar to make a shock cord. The elastic ones that Estes has I am told on here and at the launch are unreliable, even though it wasn't the culprit today. It may have snapped if the mount had stayed in place but I guess we'll never know. : (
And to top it all off I lost the Altimeter 1 that was attached to the nose cone. Oy.
On a positive note, my kids Estes Code Red went up without any problems on a C6-5. : )