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My *LEAST* Favorite Part Of This Hobby (other than cost)...
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Sand People are the worst...
and some do their best work at night...
My immediate thought when I saw the thread title was painting, but you're right, sanding is worse.
Also, where can I get that shirt?
Also, where can I get that shirt?
Well, painting can cause tremendous heartbreak after all that sanding to perfection. I always have an anxiety attack the moments before pressing the nozzle on a rattle can.
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My least favorite part of the build process is definitely the sanding. I don’t think anyone enjoys that.
My least favorite part of a launch is ignition failures, especially if it is a busy club launch. It can sometimes cost you an hour of the day and bump a flight off your list for the launch.
My least favorite part of a launch is ignition failures, especially if it is a busy club launch. It can sometimes cost you an hour of the day and bump a flight off your list for the launch.
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Yup, I'm down with that. I hate sanding fins, filling and sanding spirals, sanding between coats. Yeah, that shirt really sums it up.
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I thought you were going to say decals. I dread them 
I actually don't mind sanding too much. I like profiling fins to give them just the right shape. The only time I mind sanding is when a coat of paint needs to be sanded off
-Bob
I actually don't mind sanding too much. I like profiling fins to give them just the right shape. The only time I mind sanding is when a coat of paint needs to be sanded off
-Bob
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I don't mind doing a little. But with bigger fins, it can be very time consumming. Still not done the 4 fins on a Loc Terrier Booster I started last summer.
Ground testing charges. I would rather sand than ground test charges, but testing charges is way more important than sanding.
If you don't enjoy ground testing, double the size of the charges. If necessary, keep doubling the charges until you enjoy it.
Reinhard
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I don't do spirals
Spirals I just do not do, never have, so that does not count.
Sharing something and having 12 people tell me "You can't do that", that is pretty annoying
Sharing something and having 12 people tell me "You can't do that", that is pretty annoying
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+1 for spirals, filled spirals on my Loc 4inch BBX and vowed never to do them again, im sticking to composites instead of cardboard.
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here?! curious.. do you have an example? (I see a lot of stupid questions in FB groups, and just as many stupid answers that' I've pretty much given up on responding in those groups.)
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I don't mind sanding, I kinda like it actually.. Knowing something is coming into shape, becoming smooth & blended by your hand.. running your hand / fingers over it, feeling for it softness , slight imperfections & rubbing them out, etc..
Applying Vinyl decals & wraps is my worst.
Applying Vinyl decals & wraps is my worst.
Least favorite tasks:
1) painting
2) painting
3) filling spirals
4) painting
1) painting
2) painting
3) filling spirals
4) painting
Other than painting and long drives to go to launches (as a result I have lots of rockets built that aren't finished and I haven't been to a launch in a while), none of my adult kids share my interest. That means my kit collecting and building is a solo activity. I'm long divorced, raised my kids on my own and currently my eldest adult daughter and 9 year old granddaughter live with me (I have 2 other adult kids too) and while my granddaughter built an Alpha III recently, mainly my daughter complains that I have too many rockets and when I paint in my garage it stinks and makes a mess. It would be nice to have someone who had an interest in what I am doing and I could talk to about it.
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OK, that's a good one... except the rocket wasn't in a high enough tree. It really sucks when you can see it but know that there's no possible way you're gonna be able to retrieve it...
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I just found the image of it on FB. There was no link to a vendor.
Oh yeah. Badfinger. You know, it's impossible to play that song too loud. Believe me, I've tried.
Waiting for the wind and weather to be right for painting or launching.
Filleting. I hate it.
Much better since I bought some fondant tools, but I still hate it.
Much better since I bought some fondant tools, but I still hate it.
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With you on this one. Besides scale kits where absolutely necessary I avoid them entirely.
Plus I find sanding cathartic
Yup. I am pulling fillets right now a six-fin rocket. Drives me crazy.
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