Would you feel uncomfortable with swept back fins that looked like this?
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Iris to Aerobee 350 in the blink of an eye!
I don't think you will have any problems at all with your fin mods. I'm lovin' the scale details...
Would you feel uncomfortable with swept back fins that looked like this?
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Your method of soaking the balsa with thin CA is the same method I use. It really hardens the balsa and it sands like butter after it dries. I usually do 2-3 applications.
Yeah, I soaked the nose cone in Smith’s Clear Penetrating Epoxy Sealer. It’s primarily used to restore dry rot wood. Seems to have soaked in pretty good. I’m still going to cover the nose cone in a layer of fiberglass too.
I got a little quiet time after the Christmas presents were all opened.
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My apologiesAfterBurners, I believe OKTurbo used penetrating epoxy on the nosecone and couplers. It is a thin version of epoxy designed to thin enough that wood will soak it up & then harden. Used for resoration work.
Dave
What I do is add a Magnetic apogee detector to the altimeter section and if at any time the rocket goes wrong and ends up under power and horizontal
the MAD will separate the payload section and deploy the parachute to slow the rocket down to just doing some cartwheels
That looks great!!The Spaz stix give a fairly convincing polished aluminum finish. I think it needs a little more coverage, but I ran out. Ordered another can. Next will be layout the black roll pattern. Then red fins.
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Got it all from eBay. All pretty cheap, but it came from China so delivery was slow. The challenge is to find the correct size for your scale.Can I ask where you sourced all of the tiny hardware that you used for your detail bits? I need things like that for my Zeus/Spartan project.
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