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.
With the ever-increasing fees of maintaining our vibrant community (servers, software, domains, email), we need help.
We need more Supporting Members today.
Please invest back into this community to help spread our love and knowledge of multi-channel sound.
This is your chance to make a difference. Become a Supporting Member today:
Upgrade NowThis 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.
View attachment 250536
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
Enter your email address to join: