boatgeek
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Looks fun!Did some design work on a Venn Diagram based rocket.
It will look good when its done, but day-um those rings are going to be a p.i.t.a....Did some design work on a Venn Diagram based rocket. BT-80 LPR tubing and it'll fly on MPR 24mm and 29mm motors. Sometime soon I'll get a build thread going. Cutting the interlocking rings will be ... exciting.
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i tried masking the wraps on the 1b and my results were sloppy as heck. ended up doing it by hand.Tape, tape and more tape..... And a lot more to go!
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Fiddled with some never-opened epoxies. The rocketpoxy was almost unstirrable, proline behaved exactly as expected.
I present 'Brocket'
i tried masking the wraps on the 1b and my results were sloppy as heck. ended up doing it by hand.
If I start throwing money now, how high would I need to throw it, and how long would it take to arrive in Australia so I can have one of these?
Best to include both OR and RS. OR can read and write RS files, but not the other way around. (Are you listening Tim?)This one, if kitted, will be a plan pack with OR file...
OR does a very poor job of converting to RS. Screws up almost all the info.Best to include both OR and RS. OR can read and write RS files, but not the other way around. (Are you listening Tim?)
Did some design work on a Venn Diagram based rocket. BT-80 LPR tubing and it'll fly on MPR 24mm and 29mm motors. Sometime soon I'll get a build thread going. Cutting the interlocking rings will be ... exciting.
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Did you get your level 2 at NARAM 62?
Ah, I should have been more specific. The central tube is BT-80. The ring fins are going to be made from a piece of 6" mailing tube scrounged from a Rockler store dumpster (the salesguy pulled it out and gave it to me after hearing I was working on rockets). I've already thrown a thin carbon wrap over the tube, so it'll be bulletproof. As you say, no altitude records on this one! The whole point of the design is to have something that stays fairly low under high F and low G motors.For what it's worth, I discovered that I didn't have any BT80 on hand for the interlocking rings on my Sagittarius A build. Not wanting to wait for an order to arrive (and not wanting to pay more for shipping than for the actual BT) I ran into my local Micheal's craft store and picked up a 4" x 10" cardboard shipping tube for $3.50 and cut the rings from it. They certainly added more weight to the build but I wasn't going for any altitude records. The other plus was the thickness of the tube over a BT80. It was easier to make the cuts to interlock the tubes and the final assembly was very sturdy with zero flexing. Just throwing it out there for consideration.
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YesDid you get your level 2 at NARAM 62?
I ran into my local Micheal's craft store and picked up a 4" x 10" cardboard shipping tube for $3.50 and cut the rings from it.
For looks and a little more altitude, yous guys could round over the leading edges and taper the trailing edges of those thick rings. Soak in a little thin CA to make the cardboard sandable and have at it. Or not.The ring fins are going to be made from a piece of 6" mailing tube scrounged from a Rockler store dumpster
Jeez, man, if that were any simpler you'd just have had to plug it in.Started looking at why my telemetry links were not working as intended.
I was getting no picture on the TV from my video feed. Quick look with a scope confirmed it was PAL and not NTSC like the TV was reporting. Reset the TV and now it us picking it up as PAL and displaying it correctly. Odd behaviour by the TV, the last unit in the chain.
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