rabidsheeep
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** i put the important part i kinda wanna know about in bold*
This all starts around 3 weeks back...
It had been over a month since I had launched, so i decided that I would get everything ready, and go out... After an hour of running around getting everything together, we go to the local park, and see a bunch of huge baseball games going on. Giving they had field lisences (sp), and just for general safety, I called it off.
So I ripped out all my igniters.
The next friday, I heard about good weather, so that night I got all my stuff ready, in an effort to hopefully get to the park early, before the games. Yet again, I load up 10 or 15 rockets with engines, wadding, igniters etc. Sadly, i never woke up early enough, and my dad had left by the time i was up.
So I ripped all my igniters out. Again.
The next week, I just said "ok, Ill go out this weekend, before the sun rises if I need to." So, this time, I loaded up only about 8 rockets with wadding, engines, igniters etc. because the others had been broken in the transportation between the park and my house.
Never woke up.
Worse, is that i was playing around with my 12 volt battery and some leds, and accidentally had the power running a continous circuit for a few days.
Now after the regents, spanish, and all those other tests, i decided to go out for a launch.
That brings us to today.
I had noticed, from the time i went out and spent my 80 dollars on 60 bucks worth of engines, 5 on wadding, and 15 on igniters (a bulk pacage of around 40 from my local hobby shop) My supply had diminished. Alot.
So, I had to make due, swtiching some quests with estes, which had always previously worked, fixing some last minute things, etc. etc.
I get everything ready, in the car, all set to launch. Man, if we suddenly ran into some sort of firey parallel universe the car woulda been one heckofva firework show...
We get to the park, and put out the pads, launchers, etc. Theres a big crowd of around 40 kids having a pizza party for a baseball game on the side. I noticed they were playing with some air pump rockets, so i got alittle excited thinking that they would be impressed.
First up fat boy, cause i figured I'd use him as a wind drone thing to see which way the rockets would float (the wind was alittle strong).
Estes b4-6 i belive, with a quest tigerstripe igniter (it had worked last time)
I press the key in, and something odd happens... the lightbulb fries, and so does the plastic around it. The rocket igniter just pops out the back.
No fat boy launch.
Next up, mk109 stingray on a estes C with a tigerstripe (the wind had died down alittle.
3-2-1, light on spare controller, ... nothing.
No stingray launch.
Next up, the goddard project, since i had finally gotten it back from school, on a D12-something...
First, i tried to use my 12 volt launcher... Pretty soon i learned it was a dead battery...
Then i used the estes launcher. FWOOSH. nice and slow, not too high, arched alittle on the delay, and the the chute deployed... It floated down nicely, right smack dab into a tree. If anyone by any chance has ever been to crocheron park, you know how horrifying the trees can be. No branches on the lower parts... No way to climb...
I wasn't gonna launch my pheonix here, so i sidelined him. I got a no launch on my big bertha, on a quest c65 with a tigerstripe, so then i moved onto the bigger bertha.
This 3 engine cluster had never flown. I hooked it up, and prayed the 12 volt would work.
no luck.
So then I put on my newest rocket, the Sport. The kids, now watching in a crowd, count down, and SWFOOSH. perfect launch.
I let two that were around run after it
So then another group of kids come up. Here i am, with 40 little kids all screaming "ROCKET MAN" wanting a launch, and i have no igniters left.
I took 3 tries off of the ones off the bigger bertha cluster. None either time...
I took the ones off of the mk109 and big bertha that didn't light...
No luck.
So, i have one try left. Here i am, PRAYING thisworks... I checked everything 5 times, and had the kids count down...
3-2-1, light on controller, CLICK.
sizzle. pop. nothing.
the igniter fell out the back when i clicked.
AHGAHGOHDGAOUHDOUHSOHDFG.
the kids were all screaming, but there was nothing short of taking a match and sticking it up the back end of an engine to get it fly... So I wrapped up my stuff, and left...
I woulda rather lost every rocket in my fleet to see the kids there running around after them.
This brings me to something else... Every time im at the park launching, I hear people saying "where do you get these things" and such...
Would it be in any way illegal if i printed out a few sheets of paper and handed them out to anyone who asked at launches with rocket sites? This forum? Or make one site with links to a bunch of other sites.
Well, atleast they were alittle happy...
As far as casualties:
2 igniters
1 launchpad
1 rocket
I got quite a few of repairs to catch up to
This all starts around 3 weeks back...
It had been over a month since I had launched, so i decided that I would get everything ready, and go out... After an hour of running around getting everything together, we go to the local park, and see a bunch of huge baseball games going on. Giving they had field lisences (sp), and just for general safety, I called it off.
So I ripped out all my igniters.
The next friday, I heard about good weather, so that night I got all my stuff ready, in an effort to hopefully get to the park early, before the games. Yet again, I load up 10 or 15 rockets with engines, wadding, igniters etc. Sadly, i never woke up early enough, and my dad had left by the time i was up.
So I ripped all my igniters out. Again.
The next week, I just said "ok, Ill go out this weekend, before the sun rises if I need to." So, this time, I loaded up only about 8 rockets with wadding, engines, igniters etc. because the others had been broken in the transportation between the park and my house.
Never woke up.
Worse, is that i was playing around with my 12 volt battery and some leds, and accidentally had the power running a continous circuit for a few days.
Now after the regents, spanish, and all those other tests, i decided to go out for a launch.
That brings us to today.
I had noticed, from the time i went out and spent my 80 dollars on 60 bucks worth of engines, 5 on wadding, and 15 on igniters (a bulk pacage of around 40 from my local hobby shop) My supply had diminished. Alot.
So, I had to make due, swtiching some quests with estes, which had always previously worked, fixing some last minute things, etc. etc.
I get everything ready, in the car, all set to launch. Man, if we suddenly ran into some sort of firey parallel universe the car woulda been one heckofva firework show...
We get to the park, and put out the pads, launchers, etc. Theres a big crowd of around 40 kids having a pizza party for a baseball game on the side. I noticed they were playing with some air pump rockets, so i got alittle excited thinking that they would be impressed.
First up fat boy, cause i figured I'd use him as a wind drone thing to see which way the rockets would float (the wind was alittle strong).
Estes b4-6 i belive, with a quest tigerstripe igniter (it had worked last time)
I press the key in, and something odd happens... the lightbulb fries, and so does the plastic around it. The rocket igniter just pops out the back.
No fat boy launch.
Next up, mk109 stingray on a estes C with a tigerstripe (the wind had died down alittle.
3-2-1, light on spare controller, ... nothing.
No stingray launch.
Next up, the goddard project, since i had finally gotten it back from school, on a D12-something...
First, i tried to use my 12 volt launcher... Pretty soon i learned it was a dead battery...
Then i used the estes launcher. FWOOSH. nice and slow, not too high, arched alittle on the delay, and the the chute deployed... It floated down nicely, right smack dab into a tree. If anyone by any chance has ever been to crocheron park, you know how horrifying the trees can be. No branches on the lower parts... No way to climb...
I wasn't gonna launch my pheonix here, so i sidelined him. I got a no launch on my big bertha, on a quest c65 with a tigerstripe, so then i moved onto the bigger bertha.
This 3 engine cluster had never flown. I hooked it up, and prayed the 12 volt would work.
no luck.
So then I put on my newest rocket, the Sport. The kids, now watching in a crowd, count down, and SWFOOSH. perfect launch.
I let two that were around run after it
So then another group of kids come up. Here i am, with 40 little kids all screaming "ROCKET MAN" wanting a launch, and i have no igniters left.
I took 3 tries off of the ones off the bigger bertha cluster. None either time...
I took the ones off of the mk109 and big bertha that didn't light...
No luck.
So, i have one try left. Here i am, PRAYING thisworks... I checked everything 5 times, and had the kids count down...
3-2-1, light on controller, CLICK.
sizzle. pop. nothing.
the igniter fell out the back when i clicked.
AHGAHGOHDGAOUHDOUHSOHDFG.
the kids were all screaming, but there was nothing short of taking a match and sticking it up the back end of an engine to get it fly... So I wrapped up my stuff, and left...
I woulda rather lost every rocket in my fleet to see the kids there running around after them.
This brings me to something else... Every time im at the park launching, I hear people saying "where do you get these things" and such...
Would it be in any way illegal if i printed out a few sheets of paper and handed them out to anyone who asked at launches with rocket sites? This forum? Or make one site with links to a bunch of other sites.
Well, atleast they were alittle happy...
As far as casualties:
2 igniters
1 launchpad
1 rocket
I got quite a few of repairs to catch up to
