ActingLikeAKid
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The build bug may have bitten me. I started looking at what motors I can now launch with and had a WOOOOoooooooah moment.
Once I got over that, I thought: Realistically, where should I go next? I'm open to suggestions. Someone suggested one of the Wildman minis, which look really cool; I'm open to other ideas, too.
Here are some thoughts I've kicked around:
-Possibly going up to 38mm. With an adapter, I could still use my CTI 3 grain 29mm case, and with a big enough field and a burning desire to do dangerous things, I could get up to 400 n/s with a 3g 38mm case, which is, I think, enough for now.
-Possibly building something fiberglass. As was pointed out in the other thread, I get that there are stouter and better cardboard kits than the $22 Estes PSII kits. This isn't an indictment of those kits; this is "Hey, I'd like to try something new!". NB: Building something OUT OF fiberglass sounds fun and interesting. Hand-laying my own fiberglass sounds messy, dangerous, and expensive. Feel free to quote this post and laugh at me in a year or two when I'm posting questions about which kind of cloth I should be laying down for my L3 build.
-I'm 90% sure I don't want to tackle true dual deploy yet. My Chute Release works great, and when I'm trying to keep an eye on two four-year-olds at the launch site, the last thing I need is more electronics to fiddle with.
-I'd like to keep this reasonably inexpensive. Definitely under $100; I've seen some kits around the $50 mark that look cool.
Suggestions are welcome!!
Thanks.
James
L1 - Estes Argent on CTI H87 IMAX: 2340' 5/15/2016
^-(Did I do that right?) :wink:
Once I got over that, I thought: Realistically, where should I go next? I'm open to suggestions. Someone suggested one of the Wildman minis, which look really cool; I'm open to other ideas, too.
Here are some thoughts I've kicked around:
-Possibly going up to 38mm. With an adapter, I could still use my CTI 3 grain 29mm case, and with a big enough field and a burning desire to do dangerous things, I could get up to 400 n/s with a 3g 38mm case, which is, I think, enough for now.
-Possibly building something fiberglass. As was pointed out in the other thread, I get that there are stouter and better cardboard kits than the $22 Estes PSII kits. This isn't an indictment of those kits; this is "Hey, I'd like to try something new!". NB: Building something OUT OF fiberglass sounds fun and interesting. Hand-laying my own fiberglass sounds messy, dangerous, and expensive. Feel free to quote this post and laugh at me in a year or two when I'm posting questions about which kind of cloth I should be laying down for my L3 build.
-I'm 90% sure I don't want to tackle true dual deploy yet. My Chute Release works great, and when I'm trying to keep an eye on two four-year-olds at the launch site, the last thing I need is more electronics to fiddle with.
-I'd like to keep this reasonably inexpensive. Definitely under $100; I've seen some kits around the $50 mark that look cool.
Suggestions are welcome!!
Thanks.
James
L1 - Estes Argent on CTI H87 IMAX: 2340' 5/15/2016
^-(Did I do that right?) :wink: