The club RSO said I cannot launch my rocket. It uses 3 metal screws to hold in the electronics bay. A clear violation of the NAR guidelines?!? Anyway, is there anywhere in the US I can launch?
These bolts are not even the engine. You can always replace them with something non-metallic. I already use a single tiny bolt that rests rope parachute. Once I fired engine bolts that supported the nozzle. Never bolts in the engine and nozzle tooIt uses 3 metal screws to hold in the electronics bay.
NAR states that there may not be metal parts for the nose, body, and fins of the rocket
Without spending an hour on definitions, I'd love to hear what parts other than a nose, body, and fins you think a rocket has?
Without spending an hour on definitions, I'd love to hear what parts other than a nose, body, and fins you think a rocket has?
parachutes, shock cords, streamers, glide recovery hardware, decals, paint, glue, blood, sweat, tears...Centering rings, bulkheads/bulkplates, motor mount tube, motor retention, electronics sleds, eyebolts, launch lugs/guides...I may have missed a few.
Centering rings, bulkheads/bulkplates, motor mount tube, motor retention, electronics sleds, eyebolts, launch lugs/guides...I may have missed a few.
parachutes, shock cords, streamers, glide recovery hardware, decals, paint, glue, blood, sweat, tears...
I read body as the airframe itself, not anything attached to it.
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Until the op elaborates on the circumstances and on the rocket speculation won't get us anywhere..
Teddy
Sources? Definitions? Surely these things aren't left open to subjective interpretation?
Your RSO is strictly enforcing NAR Code:
https://www.nar.org/safety-information/model-rocket-safety-code/
If you want to launch at a NAR sanctioned event, then you follow NAR rules.
Tripoli Safety Code is crafted around NFPA 1127. Although NFPA compliance is voluntary, Tripoli have adopted it as organizational safety code. Below is a breakdown of materials use as Tripoli deems acceptable based on NFPA 1127 guidelines:
https://www.tripoli.org/Portals/1/Documents/Safety Code/Metal in Rocket Construction v2.0.pdf
I believe Tripoli events allow NAR certified fliers to attend (and vice-versa) but I do not know about inter-organizational insurance. Maybe you'll have to sign a waiver or something, idk.
It could be read as the nose cone can't be metal, the body can't be metal, and the fins can't be metal. To answer your original question, there is recovery gear (metal quick-links/swivels) and there is avionics (metal screws and bit/pieces) just to name a couple.
My point was that many Estes kits (which seem to be universally accepted at NAR launches) have metal parts in the form of eye bolts and engine hooks.
Like many, I have a feeling that there is more to the story. Three reasonably sized screws in an avionics bay shouldn't constitute a "dangerous" rocket in itself.
So that's why your rockets have biohazard symbols on them.
From what I understand the NAR rules were written to echo FAR 101 which states "no substantial metal parts".
If external screws are against the intent of the NAR code then RSOs all over the country really are dropping the ball by allowing rail buttons.
Form what you understand? Ok, will you please link to your source so that I may reference the information and make sure your understanding is correct?
Form what you understand? Ok, will you please link to your source so that I may reference the information and make sure your understanding is correct?
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One thing that I know from experience, having been to plenty of NAR launches over the past seventeen years, is that metal screws have always allowed.
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