The title of this thread led me to expect something different when I opened it. Have you got a project that just won't get done? Something that's been in your build pile forever, or is sitting half finished? Not screwed up, merely never getting fully built despite all the good intentions.
I have two. First is my two stage conversion of a Quest Terrier-Orion. The initial design and assembly seemed to go smoothly enough. The combination staging and rear ejection of the booster's streamer needed ground testing, and I screwed the test up - not the rocket, but the test - and blew up the booster. Years later, the rebuild finally commenced, and then I realized I'd made a serious design mistake. A forum member generously made me some new centering rings I need to correct it, and now I've misplaced them.
The other is the LOC EZ-I65 that I plan to use for an L2 cert flight. I got part way through and then hung up in a state of analysis paralysis over the recovery and e-bay configuration. And I've now realized, as with the Terrier-Orion, that I've made a mistake or two before now, which will probably need moderate to major surgery to fix.
Both of these have been with me for over ten years. Both, of course, have gone through long periods of out-of-sight-out-of-mind, and of me feeling overwhelmed by the thought of picking up something so long troubled.
I have two. First is my two stage conversion of a Quest Terrier-Orion. The initial design and assembly seemed to go smoothly enough. The combination staging and rear ejection of the booster's streamer needed ground testing, and I screwed the test up - not the rocket, but the test - and blew up the booster. Years later, the rebuild finally commenced, and then I realized I'd made a serious design mistake. A forum member generously made me some new centering rings I need to correct it, and now I've misplaced them.
The other is the LOC EZ-I65 that I plan to use for an L2 cert flight. I got part way through and then hung up in a state of analysis paralysis over the recovery and e-bay configuration. And I've now realized, as with the Terrier-Orion, that I've made a mistake or two before now, which will probably need moderate to major surgery to fix.
Both of these have been with me for over ten years. Both, of course, have gone through long periods of out-of-sight-out-of-mind, and of me feeling overwhelmed by the thought of picking up something so long troubled.
