What did you do rocket wise today?

Cleaned, trimmed, measured and weighed some grains. Got our "Not Your Wimpy Red" in 54 and 75mm. Worked up a new formula (to us) with Pat G. I think we will call it Spongebob Sparkie. Pat convinced us it is time to move up to 98mm loads, so we cast 45 inches of "Wayside White" for the new casing he found for us. We also cast 10 inches of the new sparkie mix in 98, who knows what will happen with that....

Other people's dish racks look like this too.....right?

Battled winds at the Tri Cities Rocketeers launch today, still managed to get 4 flights up, 1 D, 1 E, 1 G, and 1 J...

Nytrunner said:

Other people's dish racks look like this too.....right?

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I think you're gonna need a bigger dish rack....


I use my truck:

Nytrunner said:

Successfully flew Long Tom for L2 at HARA's new field here just east of Huntsville. It was nice to get up at a leisurely 6:30, pickup the club vp, have breakfast, and still show up an hour and a half before range opening to help setup.

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Congratulations on the L2 cert!

Congrats, well earned!

Cleaned my cases by hand with hot soapy water in the sink. Good flights by all yesterday.

Repaired an Estes Conquest.

Nytrunner said:

Other people's dish racks look like this too.....right?

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About like that...

CA'ed a couple of nose cones for future builds.

Fixed a Wildman SAAB RB-05A aft fin after it got cornstalked yesterday.

Finally achieved a successful ejection test on my 2” Frenzy, and decided it needs some charge wells. Not wanting to go out and buy some, I made my own out of what I have on hand!


A .45ACP casing works great!

Also got some work in on my first low power flyer in years...

Finished pulling data and cutting video from yesterday's launch. In addition to the L2 flight (documented here), I flew my L1 rocket Big SAM again on an I212 to 2105'.

krislhull said:

Not wanting to go out and buy some, I made my one out of what I have on hand!

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Aren't spent casings the greatest?

I got some new carbon plate this week. So the last few days I have been working on a 29mm. I even tried my first fin guide. While wondering around at hobby lobby. looking for foam board I found some different pearls. So I gave them a try on this build.

Put the fins on my LOC IRIS.

Bay Area Rocketry is doing an L3 cert special motor combo, so I jumped on that and ordered an M1315W for use next year.

Flyfalcons said:

Bay Area Rocketry is doing an L3 cert special motor combo, so I jumped on that and ordered an M1315W for use next year.

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Wow! That sounds like a really good deal! Do they have a M1550R combo at all?












And yes, they do... I bit the bullet bright and early this morning on that combo! My L3 is getting more and more real every day!

I hear there's also an M650 combo for the really lightweight L3 projects.

Yesterday (14 OCT 18) I started building an Estes Protostar for a family friends child to hang from his ceiling (planting a seed). It's going to be strictly for display, no MMT.

I also got my Estes Nike Smoke's airfoiled rail guides (Jack L. Hydrazine's design) mounted. It's ready for pain on the body tube then final assembly.

(sorry, I didn't have the camera with me, so no pics...but I will next time! )

Flyfalcons said:

Bay Area Rocketry is doing an L3 cert special motor combo, so I jumped on that and ordered an M1315W for use next year.

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I didn't know that there was a Bay Area Rocketry club! Where can I join?

TeslaPenguin1 said:

I didn't know that there was a Bay Area Rocketry club! Where can I join?

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Its a vendor not a club.

T-Rex said:

While I realize that you aren't as old and forgetful as some of us, I would suggest that you mark the casing with what motor/delay is inside and maybe the date built.
I usually do this with a piece of painters tape so I can easily remove it before use. Also storing it in a zip type bag will shield it from humidity.

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Very wise advice. I usually put it in a bag with the instructions.

Got a birthday present.

And Estes got a new pinup model... [emoji12]

JonathanOtt said:

It's ready for pain on the body tube...

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Gee, I feel for you bro.

Sealed up some rocket motors with a food saver. My flying season is done until it gets warmer.

Dry fitted the parts for an Estes 1/100 Saturn 1B clone, using readily available tubes instead of those dang @#$$&%$#@ specialty tubes that came with the original kit.



Looks OK so far.

kuririn said:

Dry fitted the parts for an Estes 1/100 Saturn 1B clone, using readily available tubes instead of those dang @#$$&%$#@ specialty tubes that came with the original kit.

Looks OK so far.

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Why do the specialty tubes get special characters?

Andrew_ASC said:

Why do the speciality tubes get special characters?

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Because they're SPECIALty tubes. Actually, that refers to profanity. Try reading Beetle Bailey comic strips, when Sarge gets all p***d off.

Was there something wrong with fitment on the tubes as to why you are cussing them?

The original kit has special sized tubes. So the kit is *#@!*#!@ difficult to clone. Got it?

Did ejection charge tests on my Formula 75 yesterday, so this morning I sanded and sprayed it with Duplicolor "Clear Effex"