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Trying to help a friend with her clothes dryer (LG DLEX3700V). She used it for one load the other day, then when starting the second it just made a buzzing noise but wouldn't spin. I figured it was a belt issue but that was completely intact and the tensioner is working correctly. The drum...

I've wanted to build an Estes Stealth for a while now - it was one of my favorites as a teenager. Unfortunately it's been out of production for many years and there are two unusual components - a plastic body shell around the cardboard tube, and a nose cone that nests in the cardboard tube but...

A few weeks ago I mentioned in passing to my son that there was a computer program for designing and simulating rockets. He pestered me for more information over the next few days until I had a chance to show him OpenRocket. While I was on a phone call shortly afterward, he took the basic 4FNC...

I'm experimenting with a 2 stage idea in OR (beta 22.02_5) and ran into a weird quirk. Nose cone length is set at 15cm, 73cm of combined body tube length, and another 3cm for a boat tail transition at the end. But the view of the rocket indicates a length of 203cm and the view scaling behaves...

I've been using this style connector for various projects for a while now: They're available dirt cheap online and seem to work pretty well considering the cost. However, for the first time I need to de-pin one to swap a couple of wires around. For the life of me I can't figure out what the...

I picked up a '94 Camry as a beater car for work miles last week. Mechanically it's pretty solid, but I did discover some quirky transmission and electronics issues that quickly lead down a rabbit trail that ended with blown capacitors on the computer (see thumbnails below). I've done some...

Fair warning - it's a glue thread. I'm about ready to actually -assemble- the crayon rocket that I've been tinkering with intermittently for a year. This is the first time I've needed to bond plastic to wood cardboard. Also, I'm not entirely sure what type of plastic is used on the nose cone...

In 15.03 (the packaged version) - when opening a motor configuration to edit it, there are a couple of odd behaviors that can be frustrating. 1) Regardless of the existing motor configuration for that row, -if- you've previously searched for a motor while running that session of OR, that's the...

This is a very minor issue... When selecting and simulating a motor in OpenRocket, the results vary from one run to the next. You can even create more than one simulation with the same motor and get different results when executing the 'Run Simulation' button simultaneously. Granted, they'll...

I downloaded a Mosquito STL from thingiverse last night for fun. No matter what I try, the gcode I export from Cura is only putting adhesion on two of the three fin locations. When it starts printing the fins, the third is just released in space with nothing underneath. Any idea on what I could...