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soldered some stranded wire onto a TeleGPS. I had antenna fail. It works.

I had that happen and first bad thought I had was oh no corona closed them. But then I ordered more altimeters from them.

Bought an EasyMini Alt. Gonna look for stuff to put Avbay together with again this weekend.

You might be able to find a A4 flat top upper from new Old Stock FN or other contract M16A4 as parts kit. Way cheaper. Sabre defense was selling some. You’d have to piece a stripped lower together in semi auto config. Might save you a few hundred bucks for mags, ammo, and sling. I think J&G has...

SGAMMO will randomly have ammo from time to time. My LGS was able to reload tens of thousands of rounds from his private stock of primers and not like upcharge everyone. I’ve stopped buying ammo for this year. I swapped the PSA lower for a BRN-4 lower. PSA lower will go on another build at later...

Sorry no it’s in the corner. Been way too busy with work lately. As much as I hate to say it. We basically have $20-$40 mil conveyor due a month. Hope to update later next year. Sorry.

Just because you can make it shorter. Doesn’t mean you should when turbulence or a violent dynamic flight load hits it with a cross loading. Theoretically, oh wow look at all this mass we save. Reality. Side load hits airframe. Short coupler wobbles. ** SH*T dies in flight while supersonic**...

Yes the length that goes into the next payload tube. 1.5* widest point across airframe tube. We used that rule on motor joints and nothing failed after that interation. We went from overhanging 29mm motors are 1cm to about 1.5” overhang into next stage. Basically if the connection wobbles in the...

Very true. It scares me the shortest answer could possibly wobble in flight.

I would seriously consider making each end of the av-bay past the airframe band at least 1.5* Outer Diameter of the tube joining it. This isn’t a hard rule. This is a dear rule I learned very hard on screwing up a multistage interstage design once. Short joints are prone to wobbling. Wobbling...

Haven’t done this post in a LoNG time. Ordered 200’ of 20 AWG stranded wire. I guess Covid gave us all the time in the world to practice soldering.

Hey any ideas on launch schedules here for rest of year? July is too early for me. If I get my crap together. Maybe I could Tripoli L2 this year out there, on a vacation... This nicest thing about your launch site is no trees. A sight for sore eyes for us south East folks. Loooool.

went to range few weeks ago with work friends. Buddy brought a Win 70 Swat rifle. It did 1.5” at 200 yards with crap ammo. His dad was a police sniper and gifted it to him. We are trying to work up to 1000 yards. I found some M118 LR recently. Other random buys were HK G3 wood and like a barska...

I have used Surefire weapon lights to diffuse conflict with less lethal light lumens. They have very intense dinner plate hot spots. These things are bright enough to make people who are drunk and punching the blood out of each other and approaching you, physically grab there face and yell...

Everything but Avbay. Written, and flight.

No man you are good. Oddly even at work as a new engineer I struggle with tolerance stacking still. The laser guys hate it when the newer summer interns come in and like use Autodesk to cut something not perpendicular extrusion wise then ask a laser to cut it. They just roll eyes like nooo laser...

Hey guys. Checking in. Laughing so much at all the machining comments. Yeah so at work we play send it with like 3/32” gaps on 94’ conveyors. Lol. I’m going to redesign the av bay maybe this weekend. Might pick up a smaller backup altimeter. Need to source more stranded wire and get it all...

Sorry to hear of everyone’s losses. Will HPR activities resume in the fall or winter of this year if cases of corona continue to decline? Work has been very busy. I need rocketry or some hobby like fishing back in my life to de-stress.

They haven’t “lived” that horror. I’ll explain it more clearly. Saw a thug in Memphis shoot an African American woman in head at less than three yards in about two seconds. Cops showed up four minutes late. African American woman was unarmed. She threw her hands up and screamed. Then died...

Be grateful you were never shot at by violent criminals who illegally obtained guns in so called “anti gun zones”. A sign will never stop an evil person. I by some miracle survived two of those incidents. I am more pro gun because of it. It took cops already there four minutes to stop a threat...