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Received a 3"×3"×12" balsa block to turn for the nose cone for the Triple V. I don't have my lathe set up, but I'm going to my sister- and brother-in-law's for Thanksgiving, and his lathe is working, so we'll turn it on Friday.
 
Flew a not so great trial. Making a rocket out of a heavy shipping tube... Don't judge me... [emoji1787]



Flew a cheap Estes Amazon at dusk:

 
I'm building a Kraken using 38mm blue tube. Yesterday I cut out the tube fins. For the bottom bevel I used my Hitachi mitersaw with a good cross cut blade. For the top cuts I used an air die grinder with a cutting wheel which really worked quite well. Blue Tube is pretty easy to work with and very strong.

I then glued the tube fins to the body with carpenter's glue which worked very well. After everything dried I mixed up a batch of WEST System 105 resin using 205 Hardener. I then added some 407 Low-Density filler to the mix to thicken it up so it wouldn't run. I then did fillets using a narrow popsicle stick.

This morning I filled in the spiral grooves with Elmer's Carpenters Wood Filler. I'm expecting to be doing some sanding this afternoon. :D
 
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Building this with the kid.

She picked a Big Daddy out of the pile of kits. I suggested we extend it with a scrap of 3 inch body tube (that I wasn't ever going to use for anything else) so there would be room for a "real" parachute.

She had a good time with the Olfa circle cutter, opening the paper centering rings up for a 29mm motor tube and cutting a third CR out of foam core. We papered the fins with some old exams from the scratch-paper pile.

Cut a reinforcement for the shock cord mount from a plastic peanut butter jar lid.

Might print a tail cone, just for the coolness. Should be ready for primer by tomorrow.
 
I got the CR10-s5 running again. I started making files of 3D printable pieces from the old MPC/AVI/Quest dress up kit. I started resin printing versions of PNCs that didn't come out because Fun Rockets went off the rails and did flaming endos until sinking in quicksand. I finally get to see them in real life nearly 20 years later. Here's an approximation of what a Tangent or Winnie blow-molded would have looked like. I wanted to do the modest innovation of extra large eyes to more easily fat finger the shock cords through.

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Picked up a couple more kits at HL today and launched my mean machine and baby bertha .
 

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Building this with the kid.

She picked a Big Daddy out of the pile of kits. I suggested we extend it with a scrap of 3 inch body tube (that I wasn't ever going to use for anything else) so there would be room for a "real" parachute.

She had a good time with the Olfa circle cutter, opening the paper centering rings up for a 29mm motor tube and cutting a third CR out of foam core. We papered the fins with some old exams from the scratch-paper pile.

Cut a reinforcement for the shock cord mount from a plastic peanut butter jar lid.

Might print a tail cone, just for the coolness. Should be ready for primer by tomorrow.
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What a great time!
 
Nytrunner said:
Did something happen to the top portion of the print? Looks cockeyed somehow
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No, it’s just printed in three pieces and I hadn’t glued them together yet, so the top piece was just balanced there a little of skew.
 
4k Action Camera Rocket at Udall Park in Tucson Arizona with Southern Arizona Rocketry Association. My Brother is in town and we have a chance hang out and go to a rocket launch before he hits the road again. SARA has their first Wednesday of the month Member's Launch at Udhall Park. Today is also the first anniversary of the ShotokuTech YouTube channel. So it seems to be an ideal reason to ask for the day off and capture the moment. This is the 56mm Action Cam Rocket flying on an AeroTech F30-6FJ motor to a little over 1000 feet. Enjoy! #4kActionCamera #ModelRocketry
 
Working on my Fliskit Acme Spitfire. I will confess this is one of the more challenging kits I've ever built.
Also.. were the body tubes changed after the company was sold?
I noticed that the paper parts are not quite right. The shroud was just a hair too large on the small end and the centering rings were just a hair too small on the outside diameter.
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Alan R said:
Working on my Fliskit Acme Spitfire. I will confess this is one of the more challenging kits I've ever built.
Also.. were the body tubes changed after the company was sold?
I noticed that the paper parts are not quite right. The shroud was just a hair too large on the small end and the centering rings were just a hair too small on the outside diameter.
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That is very plausible. I'd be sure to feed that info back to the company.
 

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