Does anybody make a micro scale Nike Smoke? Or a micro sized nose cone?
Do you have a drill press? Turning your own micro smoke nose cone could be easily done, using files, sandpaper and a dowel chucked into the drill press.Does anybody make a micro scale Nike Smoke? Or a micro sized nose cone?
I’m sure I could make my own but I’m pretty lazy. Possibly the laziest in LA county which puts me pretty high in the running world wide.Do you have a drill press? Turning your own micro smoke nose cone could be easily done, using files, sandpaper and a dowel chucked into the drill press.
Well, there was one -
https://www.oldrocketplans.com/srw/srwNS/srwNS.htm
EDIT: Whoops, that was a 13mm model.
right onDon't know of any kits, but Fliskits has a super long conical nose that fits the bt-3 tube. Then it's an easy scratch build by downsizing the fin templates and components from other full size plans. For the Nike nose cone flange you can downsize the cardstock shroud in the Seattle Rockets plans for the mini Nike Smoke:
https://www.oldrocketplans.com/srw/srwNS/srwNS.htm
https://www.fliskits.com/products/01prod_fs.htm
Or, you can just build the Seattle Rockets mini Nike Smoke with a MMX motor mount.View attachment 340406
So you’re saying there is kit and it’s its made a company that widely distributes it through popular distribution channels? Available from many stores and also with online ordering?Spit some numbers out. You don't know the magic of solidworks with revolve around axis and curve by equation. Nosecone profile type, length, diameter, and units. If your too lazy to upload an .STL I can make you for free and pay some company to print a cone, well I can't help you there. Designed two HPR MD multistage university student rockets last year. We had to make components from equations. It's trivial algebra provided you have access to solidworks program. Then anybody on globe with the net yo can just sh*t a nosecone from a brick of plastic.
So youre saying there is kit and its its made a company that widely distributes it through popular distribution channels? Available from many stores and also with online ordering?
No. An .STL file is a file type saved from a CAD model that the 3D printers such as makerbot take physical insertion on a flash drive to print any component in the world. There are printing companies such as Xometry that will take your CaD file and for a fee they will print it to very high resolution exceeding the typical FDM print process tolerances by using a laser sinter method called SLS. Then they will ship your custom nosecone component to your door. This is how you generate a nosecone prototype before a kit is ever released. You can then cast urthethane nosecones for low volume production using the 3D print as a jig in a mold process. Or you can fly the printed cone. Printing is the slowest manufacturing method and for long term production you will never match kit prices. I'm saying you can make a kit. I was offering to make a CAD model of any nosecone for you for free using an engineering program called Solidworks.
...I was offering to make a CAD model of any nosecone for you for free using an engineering program called Solidworks.
How do you think kits are made? Somebody 3D modeled it then a company with machines manufactures it piece by piece from the blueprints and the virtual part files.Where can I buy this kit?
Don't know of any kits, but Fliskits has a super long conical nose that fits the bt-3 tube. Then it's an easy scratch build by downsizing the fin templates and components from other full size plans. For the Nike nose cone flange you can downsize the cardstock shroud in the Seattle Rockets plans for the mini Nike Smoke:
https://www.oldrocketplans.com/srw/srwNS/srwNS.htm
https://www.fliskits.com/products/01prod_fs.htm
Or, you can just build the Seattle Rockets mini Nike Smoke with a MMX motor mount.View attachment 340406
I second that, I think this will be my next cardstock build, but at 1/25.4 scale by using the dimensions shown in inches as mm instead, so it will be slightly longer. Would be cool to make the nose vented and fill with powder to release "smoke" on the way up, but might be too small for that. Will have to study that other version to see how it might be done.
As far as I know there are no currently available MMX kits. that Said One can get a T2+, T3 and T4 size ONE Page Plan over on the Micro Max Yahoo. group from the files section onces you join the group. There was a 13mm T5 size kit some years ago but haven't seen it around lately. If you can find one on the internet or e-bay it does convert to MMX-II flying very well.
For my money the T3(.375) body 1:44 scale give the best detail to flight performance of the lot. Fins are Cardstock folded as the real fins are made the Nosecones are all turned basswood which holds the detail a bit better then balsa.
Here are all four of these Scratch built Nike-Smokes from my collection from the one page plans.
For this experiment the body tube is 129.95 mm long x 16.5 mm diameter, basically interpreting the dimensions in the drawing as mm instead of inches, so this will be 1/25.4 scale. For the cardstock foldover fins I will make a doubler for the flat portion, then crease and fold to make the diamond leading and trailing edge tapers. So, this might be a little big for MMX, although it may be light enough. I am planning to put a 13 mm engine mount in it. This nose cone will be way too small to put a proper vent at the tip for rigging up a powder/smoke system. Will have to do that on an upscale version later.
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Yeah. It's much easier than starting from scratch....
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