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A sandpaper shortage. For the love of God DOES IT EVER END?!?!?!
Motors are easier to make than tape, glue, and sandpaperNo motors?
Excellent point.Motors are easier to make than tape, glue, and sandpaper
"One never finishes sanding, one can only accept one's mortality, and the inevitability of an imperfect finish."
-Someone
Ya I was a bit embareassed the first timeYep, a rocket has to earn its paint job. However, it’s a good thing I immediately understood what “flying naked” meant.
Given appropriate venue, I can teach you how to make a BP motor in a day, including making the BP. If you want to make and dry paper tubes to press or ram the fuel in, I'll need 2 days. I prefer buying tubes which happen to look a lot like the ones Estes uses. Of course that involves making wheat paste which is technically a glue, so maybe glue is easier to make than a motor.
You can start your own club: The Polar Bear Rocketeers.I'm beginning to follow the lead of some others on the forum and flying naked until I feel like painting them.
Given appropriate venue, I can teach you how to make a BP motor in a day, including making the BP. If you want to make and dry paper tubes to press or ram the fuel in, I'll need 2 days. I prefer buying tubes which happen to look a lot like the ones Estes uses. Of course that involves making wheat paste which is technically a glue, so maybe glue is easier to make than a motor.
You can paint all year long in your basement (if you have one) if inside/basement temps are above 55F. In winter, I stockpile newly made rockets and prime/paint in a few sessions using the gadzillion Amazon shipping boxes to make a barrier to erroneous spraying. Spraying "boxes" with extra cardboard attachments so as not to paint other goods/floors that weren't targets. Works just fine. Allow sufficient drying time if you don't have the heat on down there. Actually, keep track of drying times even if the heat's on... Big drying-time differences with different paints at non-standard temperatures, some unexpected. Test, experiment, accomplish.I'm beginning to follow the lead of some others on the forum and flying naked until I feel like painting them. Besides, in the Midwest you can only paint from roughly May through October. If you follow the normal pattern you build in winter, paint in summer, then can't fly until the fall when the crops are down. That cycle blows. I want to fly year around and I'm not getting any younger, so paint is becoming more of an option than a necessity...
Chinese reclamation projects is where all the sand is going.https://www.zmescience.com/ecology/environmental-issues/hidden-shortage-world-running-low-sand/
There's always asteroids...
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