You might consider soaking each assembled shroud with thin CA. This really strengthens the paper tremendously. When one does this, it precludes the need to double the shrouds, which adds unnecessary weight and complexity.
Excellent technique, I'm stealing this one.When dry fitting, I realized the bottom one was going to be troublesome as you install it small end first. Using an engine as a coupler and a spare piece of BT20, I first slide the shroud over the spare tube, then butted that tube against the rocket motor tube and was able to easily slide the shroud onto the rocket. NOTE - I took the picture during a dry run before the other shrouds were installed.
are these 18mm and 24mm power? seems like you could almost go 29mm on the Super if you wanted...For grins, I decided to dry fit the tubes/couplers/main cone to take a pix to show the relative sizes
This is an excellent thread! I so want to build a Mars Snooper. Its one of the most beautiful model rockets ever made.
Question:
Which of the three kits is the most challenging?
Which is the easiest?
Possibly a centering ring partially occluding the slots?Hawk: Installed the motor mount into the main tube and added a fillet. If you look close, you'll see a problem brewing...
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