Thanks. This is just a prototype. Prolly fly it naked just to see if it's works. The upscale will be a gleaming 2' tall and I'll do my best to get some of the details included. There's a bunch of those....ugh.I be likin' all the mindsimin' a goin' on here! Good to see something interesting!
So does the new avatar properly reflect your state of mind?
Love your new tagline!
Thanks. I only use CA for hard coating anymore. It was the thin kind. Med or Heavy would have worked better. But I don't use it for gluing things as a rule. I had hoped it might help a little but no.And that’s why I never use CA for school/church/library rocket programs! Glad you recovered from your sticky situation - looking forward to seeing this sucker built and flying!
If I understand your drawing correctly, that's pretty much what I've have done. The chute goes here.Pardon my amateur sketch.. but have you considered a two piece design, something similar to this?
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Well that didn’t go w/o a hitch. Only a couple nose ribs were lined up correctly. Took some teeny weenie clothespins and got those aligned with the rest of the warp assembly and threw the hair dryer to it.
My points on the panel turned out oversized so I cleaned up the nose tip gnarl and sanded everything to fit. I kinda knew what I was getting into with this, so nothing came as a surprise. Fortunately this prototype is helping me make the necessary adjustments to the MPR drawings. I really gotta get this right the first time because a lot of the bigger bird will be laser cut 1/8” plywood. After I got the last warp panel in place, I took to sanding the entire rocket with a palm sander. Startin’ to shape up a bit it seems.
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That's in progress as we speak. I got one of the lower sections in place last night and some fitting to forward portion. Everything has to be in 2 pieces because part of it is the nose section also. This is where I have to make room for a launch lug as well.Isn't there supposed to be a panel that covers the central body tube?
Ya know, I thought about shaving it flush with the surface of that panel, but that would have left a nice size gouge in it. I may put a little angle to the end of the lug just to eliminate that edgy look, but I figure it'll hide better if I leave it alone. There a lot of little tid-bits to sand and putty, but for the most part I'm almost done building it.That lug will be pretty unobtrusive when all finished. Nicely done.
That's a lotta plywood infamous. Got plans for that?View attachment 362402 Now that's something !
I really don't have anywhere to put rail buttons. I don't like defacing the panel like I did on this one, but it's all I got. The inner tubes are the only thing on this model that run parallel with a launch rod. Everything else is at an angle and tapered toward the point.What's your strategy for launch guidance on the larger versions? Will you convert to buttons or just increase rod diameter?
Also, great build!
That fishing pole idea might have been an option, but I never thought of it and I have never done those before. Still, they would have to stick pretty far out to get by the wide end. And as for LL being internal...It kinda sorta is. Not like in my first ideas when I had it going straight up the center with 3 motors under the warp engines. All that did was make for serious complexities. (IE, recovery issues) That's why I threw in the towel last time. This time it on the BT 50 and regardless of it's invasion on the surface, it's a gradual protrusion which I'm sure I can disguise fairly well. The red line in the pic is the LL.Launch Lugs... how about a design that mimics the circular line leaders from a fishing pole... basically eye bolts / eye screws?
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