swatkat
Down these mean skies, a kat must fly!
Found this new astronaut volunteer at a garage sale. Perfect for BT80 tubes and streamer recovery ☺
I've got several of these... they make great test subjects.
Found this new astronaut volunteer at a garage sale. Perfect for BT80 tubes and streamer recovery ☺
Pictures, please!
I just slapped down a wad of cash on a rocket retrieval vehicle
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Hmmm.. I wonder if I can strap a couple of J's to that??
Should be here by the end of the week!!
Krusty
What a great idea! One more thing I need to doNo problem, mine is based on this:
[video=youtube;afGNbVrBiFE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afGNbVrBiFE[/video]
I made mine out of stuff from my scrap bin. Total cost 1h, and $0.
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It works very smoothly. I'm showing it here with the piece I cut yesterday. I think I am going to plug the hole in the jig, and re-drill the peg hole just a touch further out. I'd prefer to be a little oversized, and sand it down on the poor man's lathe (drill press) for a tight fit rather than the slightly loose fit it currently is. You can't make infinite sizes with this jig, but given bt size distributions I should be able to make all my 4" and up bulkheads this way. For CRs, the peg hole used here is the same size as my fly cutter, so I can cut the inner circle with that, and be confident it is centered.
Note: If you don't feel like watching the video, the strips on the underside fit the saw table. You slide the entire thing on with your plywood in place and the saw running, and once it is fully engaged you start to slowly turn the plywood around the center peg. although the jig is perfectly stable once slid fully on, I still use a strong spring clamp to secure it before I start spinning the plywood.
I do something similar on my Scroll Saw and another for final sizing the rings/bulkheads on my Disc Sander, the brass pins are the center pivots.
Scroll Saw Jig on left with adjustment screw closest to camera, Disc Sander circle jig on right, and I use a clamp to lock it in place. Inner diameters are cut with either Scroll Saw, Drill bits, or Fly Cutters (I no longer use the HF one on the left in the third picture, since I have acquired 3 of the General Tools ones (on right, single cutter).
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GI-Joe Adventure Team to the rescue!I just slapped down a wad of cash on a rocket retrieval vehicle
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Hmmm.. I wonder if I can strap a couple of J's to that??
Should be here by the end of the week!!
Krusty
I painted a rocket and just a light breeze put dust particles on it creating a fuzzy rocket. I thought I was safe in the garage, but I left it out there to dry with the garage door open to air out the paint. After that, I started bringing the rockets inside to dry with no more issues.It was a busy weekend, so I didn't get to post much as it happened. But, I resanded and repainted my Firecat (it had tipped over as I was painting it previously and gotten debris in the wet paint):
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I also started construction of an upscaled Firecat. More on that later. I finish sanded my Leviathan and painted that. No pics yet, since as of last night it was still drying and I haven't unmasked it yet. And, put a clear coat on my Teros upscale, since the paint I used was satin finish, and a gloss will lend itself better to waterslide decals.
Cool, you did get the one with front suspension Loads of fun even without a rocket to chase
GI-Joe Adventure Team to the rescue!
Wish I had one, but all mine are 1/6 scale..Enjoy!
I do something similar on my Scroll Saw and another for final sizing the rings/bulkheads on my Disc Sander, the brass pins are the center pivots.
Scroll Saw Jig on left with adjustment screw closest to camera, Disc Sander circle jig on right, and I use a clamp to lock it in place. Inner diameters are cut with either Scroll Saw, Drill bits, or Fly Cutters (I no longer use the HF one on the left in the third picture, since I have acquired 3 of the General Tools ones (on right, single cutter).
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Took advantage of low humidity and put some primer on a few naked rocketsView attachment 269206
Is it just me or is that the smallest propane tank I've ever seen? (and a really big E-bay!)
Krusty
You did the nice version with much greater flexibility, very nice. One question, how is the cut initiated? With the one I made the start of the cut comes from sliding the jig onto the table, do you simply start at the edge of the wood?
Your pics made me realize I was overthinking the adjustable jig, so another trip to the scrap bin and 45 minutes later Version 2.0...still $0 invested, well maybe $0.50 in screws at this point.
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Worked like a champ, made the insertion cut like before, rotated freely to cut the circle, and the added bonus of diameter versatility.
Thanks for posting your pics, it really helped me out here. This is an example of what is very right with TRF.
The dovetails have to be a little loose or shifts in the weather will cause them to bind. Thanks for your kind comments.
Took advantage of low humidity and put some primer on a few naked rocketsView attachment 269206
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