I curse the Domino Effect almost every day.
What did you do rocket wise today?
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Got my goodies from @DragonRocketry and dang, this stuff bigger than I thought.
Dang.
Dang.
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NTP2
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Damn that thing has a point to it
Well, it makes more sense for what I said when I first got it, i just couldn't say it or the mods would yell at me.
But yes, it is in fact, yipeeeeeeee
And this nc is sturdy, I hope the TAPS would think so too
Thurs I gave a coat of flat primer to the carefully-constructed replacement tube for the Interceptor E. Yesterday I topped it with gloss white. And proceeded to drop it on the garage floor, where it rolled, joyously collecting bits of this-n-that. Let it dry, sand, and try, try, try, try again.
A few have when I first had the idea mostly once again the social media crowd which I've since stopped caring about, and unfortunately even on some forums. That its pretty much just going to fail, the motors won't work, its just going to weathercock, you don't know what your doing, etc...
But I listened to and read all criticism, and it made me think it out a little more so it absolutely will not fail. So I've been waiting to finish it as I've messed around with it the last few months but in passing not really dedicated to it. The thing is when I got this rocket and an old collection back in June. I was frantically trying to get them flight worthy for my first club day ever in a few weeks. One of them was my older 90s made kit, a 24mm D motor restricted Super Big Bertha that ended up getting a bit too heavy as I was still finishing it.
So I told myself I want to make a booster section for it out of parts I had here as I spent enough $$. By odd coincidence I found a cardboard tube or spool some nylon string came on, so one day was looking at the spool and thought it looks close to 24mm on the inside, and 29mm on the outside. Well its just that, and the thinking was this spool would slide over a D motor and tube/hook. It did just that so I'm thinking it would make a nice seal for a booster section. So I thought about it, and started the build.
Long story short that booster section was so nice, it made more sense to take that section and just make it 29mm. Then swap the top of the rocket and that would pretty much be all the motor it would ever need. I was right! Now I was left with that spool, so I was thinking my Big Daddy would be awesome to make a staged rocket I never had one. Its going to work, I'm just taking the time to think more about it that the flying season is over.
In May, I didn't have one piece of rocketry equipment near me. Decided to fly again to have fun, and it accelerated from that to I'm now planning for my L2 cert flight spring 2024. But the last few months have pretty much been build, fix, fly, fix, and repeat on steroids. I took this picture August 3rd, to keep me motivated.
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Now paaaadner, quit yer bellyaching', get out yer trusty glue stick and get-a-buildin'.....
Well, if you'd be so good as to start a thread about that
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Prepped rockets for next weekends launch. Four low power, five mid-power and four high power. Took some pictures prepping the Viper 3, since I plan to start a thread about it, and took some pictures of the avbay in the transition of my dual deploy Argent, to add to the "show us your avbay" thread.
Ground-tested composite cluster ignition on a friend's land, three E28Ts followed by three E35Ws. Both tests worked. I was especially gratified by the E35s, as it was my first attempt at clustering white lightning.
Followed up by testing a single old E28-7T that came from three packs a friend had given me. The grains of those old reloads had shrunk inward around the slot, so I had had to glue a cardstock wrapper to the grain liner to get it to fit snugly in the case liner, and I'd had to refile the grain slot so a starter would fit. It lighted and burned with no apparent issues. I'll have to review video to see if I can determine whether the delay burned normally or faster or slower, but I'll probably end up flying the remaining 8 motors on electronics just to be on the safe side.
Followed up by testing a single old E28-7T that came from three packs a friend had given me. The grains of those old reloads had shrunk inward around the slot, so I had had to glue a cardstock wrapper to the grain liner to get it to fit snugly in the case liner, and I'd had to refile the grain slot so a starter would fit. It lighted and burned with no apparent issues. I'll have to review video to see if I can determine whether the delay burned normally or faster or slower, but I'll probably end up flying the remaining 8 motors on electronics just to be on the safe side.
Is that custom work or a kit?
Messed around with a new build, an Estes Alpha that will fly on 24mm E's. I'm going to just use a hook with this one and that green band you get with the kits. Best way then is to just glue that far enough up to slide a motor in, glue the hook to the tube, then ill notch the fins to go over that to attach them before. My Crossfire I used a screw 24mm retainer for composites, but I this I'm not doing that. I know the hook is backwards I didn't cut the tube slot for it yet. The green motor block in the Alpha kit ill put inside too and that will be the shock cord mount as well. Then cut the nosocone and put in weight with an eyelet in there. Probably streamer only or very small chute to help save the fins on landings. I found using shipping labels after the fins are on the tube, then from fin across the body tube to the other fin after fillets is great for strength. You basically label the fins with the body tube included. It works works great for those that don't have fin tabs and seem to always break. Then ill do fillets over that, its bed time...
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Awesome! I need to get mine organized too.
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That was a custom order.
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I assembled an eggtimer ion kit. Got a quantum to do next!
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Better the chair than your foot....
Another thing too is I've started making a lot of mine 29mm. Some are for fun, others test flyers, some for educational purposes for future rockets/flights. Now, when you post your building a 29mm High-Flier XL, Cherokee-E, or Baby Bertha, you definitely get some interesting responses. Most are just "it won't work" like a broken record. But my thoughts are people see that and automatically think he just wants to put the biggest motor in it and go as high as he can.
Its most definitely the complete opposite of that, its giving me experience to use those build techniques on a rocket kit that costs about $8. I want to try out a few smaller sized(Estes) minimum rockets before I go bigger. I did the same thing this spring and summer with low and mid power rockets preparing for a level one certification flight. I can say, doing that paid off. The biggest reason too is most of mine are maxed out with 18 and 24mm even down to composites. Why build another rocket that will only do the same thing? So making these smaller kits 29mm allows me to fly them locally on B motors then even more at launch days.
Another thing about posting on there(social media), is people make way too many assumptions. There was a post where someone had an E12 CATO, and most said it happens. As I did and also added not to use anymore of those E12s out of that pack. Well, he continued to use the E12s on his very nice and expensive rockets then every time they were destroyed he posted about how terrible Estes is. Why would they sell these!?, etc...
My response once again was to him not to use anymore of them. Do you think he listened? Also I mentioned they used to be fairly reliable but about a decade or so ago they started to be very CATO prone. But I said to him I had some Older E9-4s I've used recently and they worked great and I've been using E motors for some of my 29mm rockets. Then some random guy cuts in, starts saying I'm "unsafe for doing that. What were you thinking you could have killed someone!", etc...Another guy that felt he needed to tell me all this privately of course. How he was going to "contact the authorities" and ill never fly again. I tore back into him saying I wasn't the one who kept using the bad E12s, that was a person I don't even know. Stop sending me threats over messenger. I'm not one that goes around looking for trouble, its quite the opposite.
So all this kind if stuff has me to the point of I'd rather not even share anything anymore on social media. I noticed also it was eating at me as I'm pretty passionate about this hobby and have been for over 30 years now. It just made me realize again that social media isn't good for my mental health. I have a lot of down time unfortunately so posting to learn or share was fun for me on a daily basis as when your stuck in bed there's not much to do... But it also was really having a negative impact on me and it shouldn't. I found that ignoring them the past month especially but a little before has made me feel better. It is stupid, but its also a violation of your privacy when someone starts sending you threats. I'm not going to go on about this anymore either. I don't like to start issus I just wanted to share my thoughts. Thanks all.
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Social media...and I don't think I need to say anything else.
Got some paint on my rebuilt 24mm Baby Bertha.
Been getting better at CAD and 3D printing and better at conceptualizing my modular Av Bay concept.
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Paid an invoice from Loki for some reloads: G70 pack and H125. Hopefully, they'll arrive before I leave for Dalzell in two weeks.
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Where did you find the estes terrior/Sandhawk? Just my style of rocket..
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Nice find.. the last one I saw was $175 at launch lab
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Put off ordering my scratch-built from LOC again... My secret Santa's present came in, waiting for the rest, then will wrap and ship it.
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