D cells in the Big Foot base, along with the wide leg span, makes for a very stable LPR pad. One advantage to having the power at the pad.
This where I think Centuri became cheap..making a bracket to sit atop lantern battery. I had the wooden base w/ asbestos pad on their starter pack (1972) and then I brought their tripod (Big) launcher which was 3 wooden legs bolted to the base. I stupidly believe legs where hinged for portability and the color was Red (catalog picture Red) , but in life..unfinished wood. Still love the angle deflector vs Estes round disk which you see in mid and High Power Rocketry.This is the launcher I started with in 1980. Strangely enough....at that time in our community only Centuri products were available...and it was a few years later before I discovered Estes.
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Just remember, it is untested. I have not printed one to check fit and finish.GREAT news. You can now 3D print a big foot launch pad.
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4557366
Files section is complete.
For some reason when I post something to Thingiverse from my work computer, it doesn't always transition the pictures of each file.Thanks Leo. I was looking at the pictures.
I had one that came with the X-Wing starter set that I got for my birthday in 1978. Never used it. I was happy with the firecracker wick method we used when I started. I picked up another one with the X-Wing a couple of years ago on eBay. I really ought to put it together and launch the X-Wing. It's complete, but unpainted, and I kinda like it that way.My first launch controller and pad was the Estes Big Foot Launch Pad. It was part of the Sizzler (1906) starter set (no. 1432). I wish that I could find the battery box, and legs of my old pad, but it seems that it's long gone now. I found the launch controller, and I've got parts (but not the time) to build a 6V battery box for it.
So, how many else started out with this launch pad?
Pointy Side Up!
Jim
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