3D Printing 3D Printed Falcon Heavy with fall away boosters

[hermanjc]

This weekend I had a maiden launch of my Falcon Heavy with fall away boosters. My goal with this project was to design all the components (where reasonable) to be 3D printable to work with Estes BT-60 tubes and make the files and instructions available for anyone to download, print, build. I have some work cut out to make some instructions, but it flew great and worked as intended. Below are some pictures of the build and first launch.

More to come!

 

[frogglicker]

This is amazing! Well done. :: shaking while waiting for STLs ::

 

[Huxter]

The falcon looks great! Thanks for sharing!

 

[markg]

Nice - what motors did you fly on?

 

[hermanjc]

Nice - what motors did you fly on?

First fight was on D12-3 center core and B6-0s in the boosters

 

[hermanjc]

A second and great launch yesterday. D12-3 Core, C6-0 boosters.

 

[cvanc]

Wow! Top notch work.

 

[frogglicker]

Amazing! Well done!

 

[manixFan]

That’s fantastic! I love the comparison photo.


Tony

 

[techrat]

But were the fairing halves recovered by your recovery vessel Doug? It looks great, you need to make this as a kit we can all buy from you.
I do not yet have a 3D printer, but it's looking like I'm seriously going to need one in the near future.

 

[hermanjc]

But were the fairing halves recovered by your recovery vessel Doug? It looks great, you need to make this as a kit we can all buy from you.
I do not yet have a 3D printer, but it's looking like I'm seriously going to need one in the near future.

I'm seriously considering making a kit available for purchase (along with releasing the files for anyone that wants to print themselves). I'm trying to figure out a reasonable cost. It might also be my justification to upgrade my 3 year old printer if there is real interest from people to buy

 

[frogglicker]

I'm seriously considering making a kit available for purchase (along with releasing the files for anyone that wants to print themselves). I'm trying to figure out a reasonable cost. It might also be my justification to upgrade my 3 year old printer if there is real interest from people to buy

 

[Dragon127]

Well Done!

 

[gburke568]

I'm seriously considering making a kit available for purchase (along with releasing the files for anyone that wants to print themselves). I'm trying to figure out a reasonable cost. It might also be my justification to upgrade my 3 year old printer if there is real interest from people to buy

I'd be interested in either a "builders" style kit or the files if I can ever figure out the right settings.

 

[frogglicker]

@hermanjc , I 2nd what Greg said. If this was on Thingiverse, I would already have printed it. I would love to help contribute to your project in any way that I can.

 

[ljwilley]

Yes, if it was on thingiverse I would have this on my shelf right now. It would be AMAZING if you could release the stl files, and even better a kit!

 

[hermanjc]

Ok, so anyone seriously interested in purchasing a builders kit, please PM me so I can get an estimated initial demand. I'm going to have to plan how to batch print pieces so I can estimate how long until I could ship. I'm thinking of there is enough interest then the first 10 or so will come at a lower price than is eventually advertise. Thanks!

 

[frogglicker]

PM'd

 

[gburke568]

PM'd..