Some liftoff shots from some of our flights today.
Rocketarium Super Chief II (D12 to C6)
TLP Krypton on an AT F35W
Estes Ventris on an AT G76G (ON BOARD VIDEO: [video]https://youtu.be/GjccnH7t2eo[/video])
Red River Rocketry Stratos on a C6
Estes Nike Smoke on an AT G57FJ
Estes Mega Mosquito on an AT F12J
Aerotech Strong Arm on an "Estes" G80
That little red tether doesn't look quite right...
Rolled my first CF Tube. A 13mm job for a CF Star Trooper.
Start small, learn, then scale upwards.
Now that I feel good about it, I'll continue making my 24mm Mandrel for the 24mm version.
This tube just needs fins and a very gentle sanding, then either an acrylic clear coat or a thin coat of finishing epoxy.
Inside, covering the mandrel is a few wraps of parchment paper. To release the tube from the mandrel, you simply twist it one way and not the other, and it slides right off, but I don't want to take it completely off until I'm sure it has fully cured.
Then I'll get the paper out of it, and make sure a motor and nose cone fit.
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Ouch. It's one thing to 'suspect' that you did something. Quite another thing to have photographic evidence. Sorry for your loss!
Looks good! Often when it hits the stage where it is partially cured, I remove my mylar wrap (in your case parchment paper), then put it back on the mandrel just in case the extra few thousandths are needed to remove it when fully cured.
Or at least reduce it to one wrap of parchment.
.... and a 2x20 inch pink streamer to permanently attach to it.
Flew more rockets with URRG yesterday. Over booth days, I flew everything here (save for the 80/20 box).
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That stuff is GOLD to me. They had a job going on where I work and they were replacing outside panels on a building. Well under the panels was blueboard insolation. 2'x7' pieces were being thrown in the dumpster. Short story..I ended up with (NO LIE!) $1500 to $2000 worth of 2" blueboard insolation.I had to borrow my friends trailer to take my lawn mower to my Mom's house because hers is broken. I called my friend, and he said to go get it, but that he had the light wiring adapter in his truck, so I'de have to stop by his work to get it if I wanted to be street legal.
He runs the shipping dept. at the cheese factory nearby that I worked at for a year and a half when I first got out of the Army, so I headed on over.
As I was leaving there, I noticed three bags of the blue foam that is used to insulate the boxes for shipping sitting by their dumpsters. I phoned him again to ask if they were tossing all the foam and if I could take it, and he said sure!!!
Looks like I'll have to build that foam cone turning lathe and wire foam cutter sooner than I thought!!!:surprised:
What a score!
It's even already cut into manageable, usable sizes!!!
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