Minimum diameter tubes or kits?

[majordude]

Are either available?

 

[David_Stack]

Aerospace Specialty Products offers a wide variety of Micro Maxx models... https://www.asp-rocketry.com/ecommerce/ASP-Micro-Maxx-Model-Rocket-Kits.cfm?cat_id=135

Most appear to be 7.16mm in diameter, which I think means they are a MD for a Micro Maxx motor.

 

[astronwolf]

Are either available?

Estes sells a lot of them.

 

[majordude]

Estes sells a lot of them.

Uh, I don't think so!

 

[astronwolf]

Uh, I don't think so!

Oh I see this was posted in the MMX forum. I usually look for messages by subject and miss the context. But at least you actually replied to one of your threads!

 

[Zeta]

Are either available?

38mm Motor Laser LOC:

https://locprecision.com/products/laserloc-163?_pos=1&_psq=laser&_ss=e&_v=1.0
54mm Motor Laser LOC
https://locprecision.com/products/laserloc-223?_pos=2&_sid=e798d3272&_ss=r

 

[majordude]

Oh I see this was posted in the MMX forum. I usually look for messages by subject and miss the context. But at least you actually replied to one of your threads!

Kinda snarky but I usually post after several adult cocktails so I'll own it.

 

[majordude]

38mm Motor Laser LOC:

https://locprecision.com/products/laserloc-163?_pos=1&_psq=laser&_ss=e&_v=1.0
54mm Motor Laser LOC
https://locprecision.com/products/laserloc-223?_pos=2&_sid=e798d3272&_ss=r

Thanks... but MicroMaxx! 38mm is close to the exact opposite of this post!

 

[Zeta]

https://www.asp-rocketry.com/ecomme...ket-Kit.cfm?item_id=3428&parent=135&navPanel=

 

[kitbasher99]

eRockets also has a line of Micro Max kits. Kit names start with MX.

 

[eshenderson]

Fliskits also has MMX kits

 

[Rob Campbell]

Thanks... but MicroMaxx! 38mm is close to the exact opposite of this post!

For Derek Deville and a few others, 38mm is MicroMaxx.

 

[waltr]

ASP has the BTs here:
https://www.asp-rocketry.com/ecomme...-12-Long-.cfm?item_id=579&parent=13&navPanel=

 

[tjkopena]

As a couple people mentioned, Aerospace Specialty Products has great MMX kits. They're all minimum diameter unless I've missed one. Walt linked above to ASP's T-MM tubes, which all their kits are based around, and they sell some nosecones for scratchbuilding.

The Fliskits MMX I've seen are not quite minimum diameter but they're very close. A motor tube goes inside the body tube with very thin centering rings.There's a build thread here with photos that show what I mean.

The MMX rockets I've seen from New Way Space Modeling (the square rocket people) are even closer to minimum diameter, albeit square: A motor tube sleeves in to insulate the 3D printed (PLA) body tubes, but that's it. There's a picture here. They're sold by eRockets.

The SemRoc MMX I've seen are bigger, though smaller than BT-5. I don't know if they have minimum diameter MMX but it wouldn't surprise me. They're available from eRockets.

My R5 Hawkeye is minimum diameter. I don't currently carry tubes, but do also have a reasonable range of T-MM nosecones for scratchbuilding.

Two things to keep in mind:

1. The minimum diameter rockets do really accelerate away from the pad, but they don't necessarily go higher than other kits. MMX rockets are artificially limited by the momentary delay burn in the motors. Doesn't really show up w/ Quest's plastic rockets, but you can see it w/ a lot of others: The rocket's still coasting upward when the ejection charge blows.
2. Having that altitude limitation is... probably ok? Successfully retrieving a minimum diameter MMX rocket is frequently an iffy proposition. They're. So. Damn. Small. And they go so high, so fast. Extremely hard to track in flight. Then when they land they're easily hidden by anything but closely cut grass. If the engines let them hit their true possible altitude they'd be real close to one-shot throwaways in all but the most favorable launch sites.

 

[waltr]

Yes, my first one was min diameter. It went way up there. Could see the rocket with streamer but it drifted into the woods never to be seen again.

 

[kuririn]

Fliskits Big Honkin Rocket is a md bird. They give you three in each kit. I had three before the first launch. Now I have two.

 

[waltr]

Another good source of MMX kits is:
https://www.rocketshipgames.com/store/#!/Model-Rockets/c/92440315He also has a good variety of MM Nose cones.

Joe and Alice (age 5) are members of our local club. I have seen all of the rockets he sells fly.
Alice builds a lots of them herself then preps them for flight plus going all through the fields to retrieve them (except in the Tall Corn in in with the cows which are scary)..