Gary Byrum
Overstable By Design
Actually it's been one of those weeks, where you just can't win for loosing on a certain project. I got all kinds of irons in the fire here and they all seem to be coming along quite well. THEN, there's this one split fin job I'm working on that refuses to quit pissing me off. It's my first split fin rocket and both sets of fins are a 2 piece construction. The first failure was on the forward fins where I glued them together wrong. ALL 3 OF THEM! They didn't look wrong when I glued them together. Next day is when I noticed what I had done. RE-DO! 2nd time was the charm. YAY!!! I had already assembled the aft fins and glued them on the tube. Great alignment, good solid mount. Left them to dry overnight. Next day, I put fillets on and let those dry. I had a real nice looking start, just not a real good one. Something didn't look right again. So I positioned one of the forward fins in front of an aft fin, and my gap/split was totally wrong. I had glued the damn aft fins on upside down. ALL 3 OF THEM! They didn't look wrong when I installed them.
No I didn't drop kick the rocket or feed it to the tree shredder, I got busy and meticulously cut them away from the tube, prepped the edges and tube surface and glued all three back on again. I left those to dry this evening and I am praying I didn't &#%@ something else up. Fillets in the AM and if they dry, I'll mount the forward fins. Been so humid that glue is real slow to dry this week.
Anybody glue a motor mount in backwards lately? Been there, done that!
No I didn't drop kick the rocket or feed it to the tree shredder, I got busy and meticulously cut them away from the tube, prepped the edges and tube surface and glued all three back on again. I left those to dry this evening and I am praying I didn't &#%@ something else up. Fillets in the AM and if they dry, I'll mount the forward fins. Been so humid that glue is real slow to dry this week.
Anybody glue a motor mount in backwards lately? Been there, done that!