I will check with Scott tomorrow and see what I can find out, he recently moved to Florida so that may have either disrupted things or something else may be up, I don't know.
That makes sense with the move to FL. I hope he enjoys his retirement.
Who is the new owner?
I got emails from a guy named "John Lucero" using the fusionrocket email address after I bought an Arrow X from them and the tube looked a bit smashed. I was hoping to buy a few more kits from them but the site is still down and the facebook page is closed.
John bought SBR from Scott afaik.
Yup, I logged in to ask if there were any updates, found this thread, saw the question, answered it. Guy seems nice!
He may believe he has the rights because he bought the site from Scott would be my guess.
Give the new owner a chance to get the stock built up. I would be happy if a rocket of mine made the new site.
The Diablo, Fusion, ArrowX, and Thor kits all use a simple 4:1 ogive nose cone. LOC sells them if you would like to clone a Diablo or something. Scott used a very odd sized tubing for some unknown reason which probably forced him into printing nose cones, although why not go with the industry standard tube sizes is beyond me. Printed high power nose cones don't work as well as people might think. Sun exposure while it sits on the pad will warp it, it has a higher chance of breaking on impact (had a SBR Scud nose fall from my desk on to carpet and break even after coating it in epoxy as instructed), and if your nose needs a fair amount of nose weight to balance it (Scud, Bomb, and HoJo kits), that's an easy break too.
Those 3D nose cones had some super deep ridges.
I have a couple of their kits. Not all are 3d printed.
The kits from 4 or so years ago had plastic injection moldeded Nosecones mainly in 4", it wasnt until later that Scott started 3D printing nosecones. Personally the ridges are no big deal to me on the 3D printed ones because I can get a great finish by coating with epoxy then sanding and priming as usual. But I have both types of nosecone as well. I am not a fan of 3D printed couplers unless used on rockets 38mm or less.
Thanks. That makes sense.
