Custom Transition Needed

[boomtube]

Can somebody point me to a source that describes a method for laying out custom paper transitions.

I am aware of Payloadbay but unfortunately the size I need 5” to a BT 70 and 4” long will not fit on any piece of paper I can print.

 

[Tiger]

Open Rocket will split large transitions over multiple printed pages you can cut out and then glue/tape together.

 

[Gary Byrum]

The VCP software has been around a while and will print on several sheets of paper that you can print and tape together for a template.
https://v-serv.com/vcp/

This one I haven't used much but it makes a PDF file that will work the same way providing your print options will allow you several pages to print on. Like above, a template could be made to trace on to heavier stock.
https://www.delorie.com/rockets/transitions.html

Hope these help.

 

[boomtube]

Thanks, these will help if I can find someone with a computer on which these will actually work.

Sadly that doesn’t include the one I use. HamStar Whirly Wheel X-10000 running Windows Paleolithic.
I think the internet connection is two soup cans and a piece of string.

 

[fyrwrxz]

Thanks, these will help if I can find someone with a computer on which these will actually work.

Sadly that doesn’t include the one I use. HamStar Whirly Wheel X-10000 running Windows Paleolithic.
I think the internet connection is two soup cans and a piece of string.

LMAO! I'm stealing that one right out!!
( mine is a seriously over-clocked 286....)

 

[rocketguy101]

i don't have the formulas handy, but does this help?
https://mathcentral.uregina.ca/QQ/database/QQ.09.05/nick1.html

there are several hits if you search google for "cone flat pattern"

 

[tmacklin]

Balsa?

 

[Gary Byrum]

LMAO! I'm stealing that one right out!!

+1, that was pretty funny.

 

[boomtube]

LMAO! I'm stealing that one right out!!
( mine is a seriously over-clocked 286....)

You do have to be of a certain age to get the soup can and string reference. I doubt many youngsters today ever played around with that “technology”.

 

[ThirstyBarbarian]

You do have to be of a certain age to get the soup can and string reference. I doubt many youngsters today ever played around with that “technology”.

Actually, same goes for 286...

 

[GregGleason]

Perhaps Plan B:

Poster board and ...

https://www.ronhazelton.com/tips/how_to_make_a_compass_to_draw_large_circles

and the attached document on calculating rocket transitions by J.R. Brohm.

Greg

View attachment Transitions.pdf

 

[boomtube]

Actually, same goes for 286...

Isn’t the 286 a Ford motor?