Primativerocketry
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Aww that's too bad but what a way to go!
Great Colors- Black and pink are made for each other! Welcome my brother!
That looks awesome Coleman!! Love the vinyl!
Nate
I've got a spool of pink due to arrive tomorrow and a file queued up to print a set of fly-away guides.
The filament is late. So I had time to add a subtle customization:
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Plastic now scheduled to arrive Monday.
Nice build, where did you get the sleeves from? I've seen them before but forgot on which site, and where did you hit the shrink tubing? Thanks.The fins are cut out and sanded. They are extremely stiff, yet total all three only weigh 16.4 grams! They are thin, just a hair under 1/16'' thick.
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The RF transparent payload bay made with 3 layers of 1.5'' fiberglass sleeve. It is rock solid, and around 20 grams.
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The set up for making the fincan tube - 3 layers of 26'' long carbon/fiberglass pink 1.6'' sleeves, and the treated shrinkwrap. My mandrel is a 3' long polycarbonate tube with OD of 1.125''.
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The weave of the carbon/fiberglass sleeve.
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The three sleeves on the mandrel ready to be epoxied.
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Over 50 grams of epoxy for this!!!!
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The layup curing with the shrink wrap in place and shrunk down.
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I cant wait to see how this turns out!!!!
Nice build, where did you get the sleeves from? I've seen them before but forgot on which site, and where did you hit the shrink tubing? Thanks.
I believe that you can get those from Soller Composites
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