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Even though I'm nowhere near ready to start "Punishing Myself" with the expense of flying of a level 2 rocket, (not to mention the need to get my Level 2 cert.) I thought I should get a build thread at least started for the Punisher I got for Christmas. I'm planning to get my Level 2 cert with...

The 6 year old is taking a bath right now. (We're doing Santa pictures later today.) He started hollering that he wanted a towel. I couldn't hear what he was saying, so I went in there to see what the matter was. I asked him what was wrong. He replied "I'm not a Hoopy Frood right now." So I...

It's gray, and there's water falling from it. I don't understand... Is this that "rain" stuff people keep talking about?

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After more than a year of unemployment, my wife accepted an offer for a new position today. She's pretty excited about the new job and future prospects. (I just felt like sharing that bit of good news. Now back to my regularly scheduled forum lurking. ) :)

I'm not sure how, but I've managed to lose the delay o-ring for my last 29/40-120 reload. (Well, not my LAST last, just the last one I have on hand.) I figured it would be a simple matter to buy a replacement, since the dimensions are listed on the assembly instructions. I figured I'd throw...

My first attempt at filling a fin-can with 2 part foam was marginally successful: As you can see in picture 2, there is a small void along the fin root. I'm not too worried about it, but the other side (picture 3) is a bigger problem. At this point I'm wondering if I should drill some...

It's a mini build thread for a DarkStar Mini... I bought this from Bay Area Rocketry with my "birthday money" at last December's launch. I haven't been taking pictures, but here's an outline of what I've done so far: Washed all the FG parts. Used WD40 to get some sticky residue off the fins...

at what a friendly, helpful, and generous community TRF is. I am proud to be able to be a part of it. Sure, we all have our moments; but on the whole, the members here friendly, supportive, and provide (mostly) constructive criticism, and (usually) civil discourse. At the same time, I am...

I started helping the boys with thier "Baby Krakens" this weekend. The intention was to get them to a point where the first coat of primer could be done when I got started painting my King Kraken. That didn't happen, but it's mainly because I ran out (ok, misplaced - I looked for it all over) my...

Rocket Jamboree for my son's cub scout district is fast approaching. Registration is open and one of the "add-ons" available to adult leaders (me) is a crayon rocket kit. I want one. I still have my King Kraken to finish, not to mention several other LPR kits to work on. But, I want...

Does anyone happen to have an OpenRocket file for the Quest Mean Green kit? I can't find the one I was messing around with last year before I built mine, and I want to play around with some different motor configurations before I go out and fly tomorrow. Thanks in advance...

I was going through my range box this morning when I noticed this on one of my unspent D12 motors: Would having that much of the clay cap missing cause an issue with flying this motor?

bunch of arrays are displayed, and then this error at the bottom 144: Table './emrr/view_friendly' is marked as crashed and last (automatic?) repair failed -

I'm building a King Kraken for use in my L1 Certification attempt this winter. I've had the kit (plus 2 baby krakens for my kids) for a while now, and It is high time I got started building it. I promised Layne I'd post a build thread, so here goes! First up, those spirals aren't going to fill...

I decided to build one of the new 13mm pinwheel rockets designed by Art Applewhite today. I figured, hey - why not post a build thread? So I downloaded the pattern and printed it out on 110lb card stock. (A lovely salmon color, don't you think? Then I gathered the rest of my tools. I...

I'm thinking about going for my L1 certification this year. I've also been wanting to build a Kraken ever since I first saw them on the Apogee Components web site. The King Kraken can be flown on H and I motors, so why not kill 2 birds with one build? What do people think, would the King...

My club's monthly LPR launch that got postponed last weekend due to bad weather just got cancelled due to more bad weather. :( Well, I guess this means I have more time to build rockets (not that I can paint any of them yet) and help my son finish his pinewood derby car. :cool:

So, I did something dumb when I was building my BatRok. when attaching the Kevlar shock cord to the thrust ring, I set the knot with CA. :blush: The rocket flew once and was recovered just fine, but the Kevlar broke when I was prepping the rocket for a second flight. The point of failure is...

I just finished building a Quest Mean Green. I documented the process over on EMRR. Mean Green Please let me know if this is the wrong way to post build logs...