I am working on my L2 rocket
I have received from McMaster Carr a bag of 100 5/24 black plastic ( nylon ) machine screws to use as shear pins.
My plan is to use 3 of them on the nosecone.
I have had 1 L3 tell me to just make the holes really really tight, and just push them through so they hold themselves in ( no cutting threads )
I have had another L3 tell me to cut threads into the plastic nosecone
My own warped logic tells me to harden the hole in the airframe and try to cut threads into that.
What do other folks do?
I have received from McMaster Carr a bag of 100 5/24 black plastic ( nylon ) machine screws to use as shear pins.
My plan is to use 3 of them on the nosecone.
I have had 1 L3 tell me to just make the holes really really tight, and just push them through so they hold themselves in ( no cutting threads )
I have had another L3 tell me to cut threads into the plastic nosecone
My own warped logic tells me to harden the hole in the airframe and try to cut threads into that.
What do other folks do?