Redneck_Pyro
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No that wasn't a typo, I meant scrap.
While I was planning out my L3 project I decided to pick up an Extreme Wildman kit to keep my hands busy. When I got it and saw the aluminum nose cone tip I decided that all of my high power nose cones from then on would require aluminum tips just like it. I then decided that if I were going to start putting nose cone tips on my rockets like the one that came with the Wildman kit I had better figure out how to make that happen. The logical way to go about something like this would be to hire someone to machine it for me. I have never been very keen on doing things the logical way. So, I set about figuring out how to do it myself.
What I ended up doing was taking something like this:
(Actually the picture is of a water pump, I ended up using a turbo charger and some of my wife's Christmas cookie cutters)
and turning it into something like this:
and this:
(I liked the look of the carbon inclusions so I decided to leave them in)
And when they are installed on a nose cone they look like this:
I wasn't sure if anyone would be interested in the process I came up with as well as the mistakes that I made along the way. If people are interested I would be happy to write the whole thing up and post it here.
While I was planning out my L3 project I decided to pick up an Extreme Wildman kit to keep my hands busy. When I got it and saw the aluminum nose cone tip I decided that all of my high power nose cones from then on would require aluminum tips just like it. I then decided that if I were going to start putting nose cone tips on my rockets like the one that came with the Wildman kit I had better figure out how to make that happen. The logical way to go about something like this would be to hire someone to machine it for me. I have never been very keen on doing things the logical way. So, I set about figuring out how to do it myself.
What I ended up doing was taking something like this:
(Actually the picture is of a water pump, I ended up using a turbo charger and some of my wife's Christmas cookie cutters)
and turning it into something like this:
and this:
(I liked the look of the carbon inclusions so I decided to leave them in)
And when they are installed on a nose cone they look like this:
I wasn't sure if anyone would be interested in the process I came up with as well as the mistakes that I made along the way. If people are interested I would be happy to write the whole thing up and post it here.