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  1. shockie

    Nozzle Design Resource

    Site cannot be reached
  2. shockie

    Why doesn't my paper/cardboard tube catch fire?

    Can anybody decipher the above chart?
  3. shockie

    Why doesn't my paper/cardboard tube catch fire?

    While widely used everywhere, the term “cardboard tube” is a misnomer. Cardboard consists of three kraft layers with the central layer corrugated. Its distinctive brown color, high strength, bleaching ability, longer fiber length, make it an attractive choice. The chemicals used during the...
  4. shockie

    Less finely ground clay the cause of CATOs in Estes motors??

    I opened up Estes ABC motors back in the day when I was 13. I've also removed the ejection charge and then used an eye dropper with a drop of water and dissolved the delay train to get booster motors. If you look at the backside of the nozzle and pop it off from the propellant grain you'll see...
  5. shockie

    Black Powder High Power

    Back when dinosaurs roamed the earth, they clusteted FSI F100's. Anybody cluster RocketFlites GH BP motors?
  6. shockie

    For Sale Motors for Sale

    Wow that's quite the collection you got there
  7. shockie

    AeroTech Open Thread

    Gary thanks for that. Are they encased with clay too and bottom.?
  8. shockie

    AeroTech Open Thread

    I have a question about the phenolic inserts that Aerotech is putting into certain motors to prevent nozzle erosion. Can I assume these inserts are in the nozzle throat only? If that's the case , then these inserts have to be pretty small in diameter.? So the question becomes, where does one...
  9. shockie

    Windows geeks: Silly performance monitor logging question

    Consider this; https://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertutorial/9186/schedule-data-collection-with-windows-performance-monitor/ In conjunction with the info provided here; https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13473761/perfmon-counters-to-check-memory-leak. You can watch various memory counters...
  10. shockie

    Using mylar to wrap diy fiberglass

    You can buy very thin Teflon film : https://catalog.cshyde.com/viewitems/-categories-ptfe-teflon-products-ptfe-teflon-films/ptfe-skived-film It can be used as a non+stick film over a mandrel or wrapped over the outside of a tube as a release film and then use some Dunstone heat shrink tape to...
  11. shockie

    AeroTech Open Thread

    I volunteer to be a beta tester.🤔😳😃
  12. shockie

    Launch Site Dimension Dilemma way out in the desert...

    He's in CA. Of course.
  13. shockie

    Drag reduction with rough surfaces?? Anyone studied this?

    You might want to read this : TR-11 Aerodynamic Drag of Model Rockets https://plans.rocketshoppe.com/pubs/Estes/estTR-11/TR-11.pdf
  14. shockie

    S8D for noobs?

    James, will the NAR be creating and publishing how to go about getting that waiver?
  15. shockie

    Permanent low-mid power pad thoughts?

    I have a carbon fiber tube/ 3d printed PETG/CF tower attached to a 3m 1010 rail and a modified Triton MSA200 support stand. The 3m rail is actually 3 1m pieces that are bolted together at launch site
  16. shockie

    Stiffening Fins Already on the Rocket

    Use a low viscosity Laminating Epoxy with 0.2 to 2.0 mm. Carbon fiber sheet to your fins I.e. "skin them" The 0.2 to 0.5mm can be cut with scissors and is conformable.
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