Too many rockets…

[bronicabill]

Agreement with my wife: we can have rockets, but they can be in the bedroom - a good compromise. Wait, yours are assembled?

The CAN be in the bedroom? Did you mean they "can't" be in the bedroom???

Most of mine are still in kit form. All assembled rockets are in my "hobby room" on a shelf...

 

[bronicabill]

I agree, not possible to have too many rockets. Does anyone have clear instructions for their better halves if you should, heaven forbid pass, on how much to sell these unbuilt kits? How 'bout instructions to sell on TRF first!

That is good idea! I need to do the same with all of my guns and R/C airplane stuff...

 

[cwbullet]

The CAN be in the bedroom? Did you mean they "can't" be in the bedroom???

Most of mine are still in kit form. All assembled rockets are in my "hobby room" on a shelf...

typo CAN'T

 

[bronicabill]

typo CAN'T

Sorta thought that was what you meant!

 

[Cape Byron]

The CAN be in the bedroom?

Only the Estes New Shepard.

 

[Hyak]

Lego is what your looking for, methinks.

Yea

Lego is what your looking for, methinks.

Oh, great. Mention my other vice! If my wife ever figured out how much the Lego sets I have cost, I'd be on the couch forever!

But I am hoping that its just a matter of time before those clever folks in Denmark figure out how to put a K550 in a Lego Rocket!

 

[hball55]

Why do I keep buying new rockets? I already have WAY more kits than I could ever build (60+ years old and seriously declining health), yet somehow I cannot resist “ooh, that one’s cool; let’s buy one”!

Am I the only one here that does this?

I already had so many rockets that 2/3 of them had never been flown and I’m about to turn 67. Over the Covid hiatus, I must have bought and built twenty more rockets. I must have near 200 built rockets. Finally got to a launch last Saturday and flew three previously unflown rockets, one built fifteen years ago (PML Black Brant Vb) and the other two new built rockets from SBR (The Bomb, The Bullet).

Edit:
Had to go and count them, and it was easier to fire up Rocksim to do the count; 183 built rockets.

 

[David Schwantz]

That is great to be able to fly rockets that are almost as old as we are. But I have seen several motors blow right through the airframe due to glue and or materials failing over a time period. A good preflight check may be in order. Happy flights.

 

[cwbullet]

Our recent launch was canceled at the landowner's request based on COVID. Hard to argue that. I too have built a few in the last 6 months. I need to fly on my own farm.

 

[shawn_rocket]

I already had so many rockets that 2/3 of them had never been flown and I’m about to turn 67. Over the Covid hiatus, I must have bought and built twenty more rockets. I must have near 200 built rockets. Finally got to a launch last Saturday and flew three previously unflown rockets, one built fifteen years ago (PML Black Brant Vb) and the other two new built rockets from SBR (The Bomb, The Bullet).

Edit:
Had to go and count them, and it was easier to fire up Rocksim to do the count; 183 built rockets.

So there is hope I may be able to build some of my rockets!

 

[Hyak]

Oh no! You are most definitely NOT the only one that is prone to the "Oh that's cool, I want one of those!" In fact I just tripped across a Rose-A-Roc that I couldn't pass up! (Good that I did to as it was the last one! (That's called 'Justification' )

My kits stack up wayyyyy faster than I can build them, which is further exacerbated by the fact that I have more than one scratch build projects underway and keep finding more! (Darn you Peter Alway & NASA!)

Current Scratch in progress: (LPR) SA-2B Guideline (Staged of course); (LPR) NIKE-NIKE Smoke (No, that's not a typo); (HPR) NIKE-NIKE Smoke 4"; and BB-VII (Talus/Terrier/BB) in 4"
Kits In progress: LOC Terrier & Sandhawk; LOC Terrier modified for 54mm
Kits waiting to be built: No clue!, there are at least three big boxes of them in the garage, plus whatever is in the house... (Recently I did find an original Estes unopened AstroCam complete with Kodak 110 film in the garage though!)

 

[hball55]

That is great to be able to fly rockets that are almost as old as we are. But I have seen several motors blow right through the airframe due to glue and or materials failing over a time period. A good preflight check may be in order. Happy flights.

I had a PML Io (Quantum tube) that I built in 2000 . . . I flew it in 2015, normal flight, soft landing, but when I retrieved it the quantum tube was cracked clear through. It was unrepairable. I definitely question the durability of quantum tube.

 

[David Schwantz]

I believe a couple of the ones I saw were also Quantum tubing.