What did you do rocket wise today?

Didn't do much today as Real Life got in the way...refrigerator repair, decorate the house for St Paddy's, cooked the corned beef/cabbage, trip to the grocery store and bank...retired guy stuff.

I did manage to mark up the Madcow Frenzy av-bay bulkheads for U-bolts. Thought I'd done that yesterday but turned out it was only the all thread spacing.

Correction to yesterday's statement about the high temp paint being heat resistant up to 1200 degrees. Turns out I bought the other rattlecan that goes up to 2000 degrees. Yowzah!

did the balance trim on my sky dart . need a nice day to test toss.
Rex

BeerorKid said:

Great job on the chutes

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Thank you

Brought a tear to my eye, seeing them work! Oh, and a crap load of relief, too!!

Krusty

Got all of the fins on my BT80 Bertha:

BeerorKid said:

Why that font?

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o1d_dude said:

I'm guessing it's easier to read on a mobile device for those of us with geezerly eyes.

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No surprise that an "Old Dude" would get it right. My 88 year old mother does all her emails in CAPS! I'm sure I would get some grief about that, so I use an easy to read font slightly larger than the norm. Yes, my mom does come on here and checks out what I'm up to, usually when I send her a link to a project I'm working on.
Also because someone on here posted up that "no one should ever use Comic Sans MS for anything." And I'm just ornery enough to do it to spite them. Old age can do that to you... :tongue:

Wayco said:

I'm just ornery enough to do it to spite them. Old age can do that to you... :tongue:

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That is a great reason to do it. i formally withdraw my sorta snarky and slightly rude question

The past two days I cut, marked, routed, drilled, fabricated and packaged two Rocket Tube Slotting Fixture kits and shipped them to Apogee along with three pairs of aluminum rails for the Large Guillotine Fin Jigs. I also received more Baltic Birch plywood from Woodworkers' Source. In addition, I finally managed to apply two coats of Rustoleum Sandable Primer on my Skonk Wulf rocket by Shrox, which has been beckoning me to be finished. If I'm lucky I'll finish it by October.

So far today, I've ripped up 8 - 20" x 30" sheets of said plywood into side panels for the jigs ordered by Apogee Components. If all goes well I'll send another load of stuff to Colorado manana.

Received NC Lacquer from Firefox.

Made a bulkhead for my Jumangi DD clone nosecone then drilled with CR together for alignment.

Only had one tee nut so will have to make HW run before glueing in.

Shot silver laquer for Black Ops 38 vent band and primered vent band for SuperJart 38 after deciding to paint red instead of just spraying clear.

Kenny

TopRamen said:

Received NC Lacquer from Firefox.

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Your browser sends you Lacquer!?! Must show me how!

Put an Estes Sticker on a lighter then Glassed it.

Picked up some kits with the Estes sale. The Neon has been calling my name for a while. I hope these kits will help me spark my interest in rockets again for this next launch season. Fun builds I hope to tweak a bit estesbasher style. I bought some Estes kits last year, but just for fun builds to display at my cubicle. These might replace some of them, but eventually they will fly.

I work in the NE Capitol and during legislative session bomb dogs patrol. Not sure of the policy on having burnt propellant, so unlaunched rockets are my decoration.

Turned a couple of stepped tube adapter for 29mm, 38mm, 54mm, and 3 inch Loc tubing so I could use my woodworking lathe for quickly sanding fiberglassed tubes.

Behold!!!

- Used epoxy for the first time (to make fillets) and ended up with a headache... (I live in a non well-ventilate apartment and the temperature outside is -10C)
- Am having internet problems and difficulty reaching the forum.
- Day job was full of stupid problems today.
- Today sucks.

I did round one in the garage this evening.

Got Jumangi DD centering ring tee-nutted but was slightly too large for cast fg nosecone shoulder .. i had fabricated for the coupler ..so had to sand to fit cr and nose. Glued in and took bulkhead down a hair too.

Got a small tether fashioned out of 750 lb kevlar and was able to loop around metal tip retaining bolt to secure in SuperJart 38 nose. Then glued vent band to coupler and shot some quick color on it .

Next I cut a rail guide into two halves and epoxied on to Fyrwrxz Daves Saucer guts and double buttered the guts to the saucer. Actually opened my new rocket poxy and colored it orange.

Kenny

Today i mailed my certification forms into NAR HQ after a wonderful L2 launch last weekend

B787_300 said:

Today i mailed my certification forms into NAR HQ after a wonderful L2 launch last weekend

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Congrats on the L2!

I haven't done a lot of building lately, but over the last two weeks I built a 29mm 4" crayon bank, and started work on my Madcow Frenzy. Yesterday I also prepped a G64-4 to fly in my Aerotech G-force this weekend.

Edit: This thread has 11000 posts! That's kind of cool.

I'm applying the panel lines to the booster of the Redstone. I'm using drawings from David Weeks to show me where to apply them using 1/32" trim tape from Pactra.

Went on one venders web site to order some LOC tubes and wanted to charge $18.00 for two tubes to ship. No way. Went to LOC and they only charged me $7.00 to ship. Another happy rocket guy here.

I shipped a clone kit that I'd gathered up for an Estes Advanced Target Drone to my nephew today.

Started Gluing the motor mount together on my 38mm Estes Leviathan, also took the weight off the fins. One side of them glassed, one to go!

Went to Lowe's and picked up a 1x30 sanding belt for my old Dremel #1731 and a nice power strip for the rocketry workbench. Installed both.
Assembled/populated the Madcow Frenzy's av-bay bulkheads after giving up on heat treating the automotive header paint on them beyond 30 minutes @ 250 degrees. Plywood autoignites at temps between 400 and 500 degrees so what I did will have to do.
Laid down some fillets on the Polecat Aerospace Goblin 5.5. The verdict is in. I suck at pulling epoxy fillets.

Last night, I started putting epoxy fillets on my BT80 Bertha upscale. I got half of them done, the other half to do tonight I expect. I also drilled the cone on BT70 Advanced Target Drone - 1/2" bore, 3.5" down to place the nose weight where it needs to be. Capped off with a dowel and eye screw.

2 nights ago, I started to pull out items needed for Saturday's launch. I discovered that I neglected to clean one of my RMS 40-120 casings after last month's launch. Had to soak it for a while to loosen the liner enough to pull it out. The forward closure is seized and won't come loose at all. (I even damaged the anodizing a bit trying to get the thing loose.) Anyone have any tips?

Last night, I attended LUNAR's club meeting. Got to look at and ask questions about the ARLISS-K rocket design mine will be based on. Also got a look at SCRocketFan's TARC and Science Fair rockets. Told the club president I could help at the two upcoming TARC-only launches being hosted by the club.

Assembled some reloads and prepped some rockets for tomorrows launch at TTRA!

rbelknap said:

2 nights ago, I started to pull out items needed for Saturday's launch. I discovered that I neglected to clean one of my RMS 40-120 casings after last month's launch. Had to soak it for a while to loosen the liner enough to pull it out. The forward closure is seized and won't come loose at all. (I even damaged the anodizing a bit trying to get the thing loose.) Anyone have any tips?

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Pipe wrench?
Worked once for me with **minimal** damage.
ymmv

Nate

Layed down more rivets on the Redstone booster and counting.

I will dope slap anyone who recommends a pipe wrench to loosen a piece of motor hardware

The correct tool is a rubber strap wrench. Buy a set of two at Home Depot or Lowe's for anout $15. I carry the smaller one in my range box.

Nevermind then...

Nate