What did you do rocket wise today?

jqavins said:

Peanut butter is a pretty good inexpensive protein source. Also, spaghetti and "meat" sauce made with canned tuna instead of ground up mammals.

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Skippy "Natural". I buy 2 large jars at a time.... Tuna in pasta: Only when I'm starving.

Added another fin to my 2-stager, Romulus.
Here's my fleet:

Ordered up a few kits from FlisKits...a couple Mercury Redstones of course as well as a Frick n Frack and the other odd-roc (Pheord 150) they have posted. Just checked the website. HAD posted. All the kits they were offering are now gone.

jqavins said:

Peanut butter is a pretty good inexpensive protein source. Also, spaghetti and "meat" sauce made with canned tuna instead of ground up mammals.

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I love chilled tuna salad...tuna casserole (and warm tuna) not so much for some reason. Otherwise I'm a seafood lover...fish included.

jlabrasca said:

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Got the C and D Q-jets. Wonder what would happen if I put a D16 in the Gyroc?

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You would most likely shred it.

printed out some additional AV sleds for myself and a local guy. Bought some larger parachutes for a few models to handle the extra weight and laid out the quarks + T3 on the various sleds. Now to get the standoffs all dialed in.

Finally unloaded the truck & put away all the Airfest stuff, now to clean some motors that been lay'n 'round for over a year.

MoeB said:

You would most likely shred (a Gyroc on a Q-jet D16).

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You don't know how stupidly I tend to overbuild. ^_^

Got the fin filets done on this. A before and after picture.

Today I received and paid the invoice for my replacement EggFinder LCD unit. When I'm finished assembling it, I can complete and post my case mods for it. Gonna be fun

Ordered a Black Aero case for an Eggfinder LCD. Built an Eggfinder Mini. Aeropoxyed the motor retention on an Estes PS2 Smoke that I fiberglassed. I’m going to see if I can shred it.

blackjack2564 said:

....now to clean some motors that been lay'n 'round for over a year.

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This makes me feel better, knowing that I'm not the only one who does this from time to time.

MoeB said:

jlabrasca said:

Got the C and D Q-jets. Wonder what would happen if I put a D16 in the Gyroc?

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You would most likely shred it.

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Ahh, but the Apogee (Aerotech) D10 on the other hand...

Brand new to this forum. I started in rocketry when I was 12 and then spent 28 years away from it, returning to it last year with a vengeance!

I built the Rocketarium Black Brant IV Mod1 yesterday. It went together well except it was missing one non-crucial piece, which I made out of some cereal box cardboard. Pretty cool rocket and it is the first non-Estes rocket I've put together. Working my way up to bigger stuff, the next one will be the LOC Iris 3" along with a rail and 12V launch system.

Completed another Eggfinder TX kit. They actually do get easier the more you build them.

Tyler P said:

Brand new to this forum. I started in rocketry when I was 12 and then spent 28 years away from it, returning to it last year with a vengeance!

I built the Rocketarium Black Brant IV Mod1 yesterday. It went together well except it was missing one non-crucial piece, which I made out of some cereal box cardboard. Pretty cool rocket and it is the first non-Estes rocket I've put together. Working my way up to bigger stuff, the next one will be the LOC Iris 3" along with a rail and 12V launch system.

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Welcome aboard. Glad you found us.

Using an oven at work to anneal the high temp paint used on my launch tower's steel parts. I've been printing nut holders (stop snickering) and drill guides in preparation for assembling it, hopefully this weekend.

Pics when complete.

Dry fitted a 7 motor cluster for the Loc Ultimate mini. This emulates the 7x29mm cluster of the full size Ultimate. It will be interchangeable with the stock 18mm mount.

Clusters look pretty cool. I definitely would like to try those in the near future.

Started putting the fillets on my Frenzy today. Was able to get two sets done, just one more to go.

Roughing out a CP for a fellow club member's grid fin project. This thing is really cool because the multi-piece nose and bolt-on fins all fit inside the mailer tube airframe so he can.....mail it, fly to a launch, then send it right back when its time to go home!

Its name: Further Assembly Required

Any possibility of seeing the bolt-on fin details?

anbhtblr said:

Any possibility of seeing the bolt-on fin details?

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+1, itching to see some hobbyist gridfins

anbhtblr said:

Any possibility of seeing the bolt-on fin details?

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dhbarr said:

+1, itching to see some hobbyist gridfins

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I'll ask him for pictures of the real thing.

Heck, I may be able to get him to do a post-build thread

Received this in the mail today...

rharshberger said:

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Ohhh...that's nice!

Simmed up a 1/5.3 scale Terrier-Malemute. I think I'll call it 'I Double Dog Dare You'.

Charles_McG said:

Simmed up a 1/5.3 scale Terrier-Malemute. I think I'll call it 'I Double Dog Dare You'.

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Lol, I see what you did there...

Cut and uploaded video of the RWBCC Explorer over breakfast.
(and forgot to turn off the camera for awhile)

rharshberger said:

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That is a pretty rocket!