Old dude picked up 2 packs of D12 3 at local Hobby Lobby in Denver. COSROCS had announced a Sunday launch on the beautiful green lauch site outside Peyton Colorado. So much fun to lauch with those guys at the Ranch. Always have to put you best foot forward when launching with a "sister club" down South. Loaded up the Sunward SU 47 for like it's 25th flight. 5-4-3-2-1 kaboom! Darn it! Another CATO, but a newbie got good video on his I phone. Fireball and all. Severe hibachi on body tube end, elastic burned through. Oh well, stuff happens, set that motor pack aside.
Open another pack and fly another Sunward airplane rocket just fine. Put the second motor from the pack in my old scratcher Corsair and kaboom! Some inner Estes cursing ensued, impure thoughts abound. She is a tough ole bird. Had to remove motor with pliers. A good blackening on the inside, half the motor block gone but no significant damage, just a lot of soot.
2 outta 3 from two new packs, 0123 and 0323. Mess reports filed BUT COME ON. Way too many failures this year. Blowing up many so many rockets in public is getting embarrassing. It is too the point of harming my interest in using mighty D12 motors. LPR fear is making me grumpy. Fear is the mind killer. 16 years a BAR and this is worse than ever. Worse than E9's and E12's of the past
Not in the mood for Gaslighting "oh they are being dropped by kids in the store, or oh they are being frozen during shipping." No, always like that in the past and never this many CATO's or weak to no ejection charges on D12 3. Noticed the recall on 13mm motors. There is even a bigger manufacturing issue here with 24mm.
Am I turning into just another grumpy old dude posting everywhere saying I won't use those motors? Where has my inner Estes shill gone? Yes, just a grumpy old dude. GET OFF MY LAWN!
Too many bad dates!
Breaking up with Estes is hard to do.
Open another pack and fly another Sunward airplane rocket just fine. Put the second motor from the pack in my old scratcher Corsair and kaboom! Some inner Estes cursing ensued, impure thoughts abound. She is a tough ole bird. Had to remove motor with pliers. A good blackening on the inside, half the motor block gone but no significant damage, just a lot of soot.
2 outta 3 from two new packs, 0123 and 0323. Mess reports filed BUT COME ON. Way too many failures this year. Blowing up many so many rockets in public is getting embarrassing. It is too the point of harming my interest in using mighty D12 motors. LPR fear is making me grumpy. Fear is the mind killer. 16 years a BAR and this is worse than ever. Worse than E9's and E12's of the past
Not in the mood for Gaslighting "oh they are being dropped by kids in the store, or oh they are being frozen during shipping." No, always like that in the past and never this many CATO's or weak to no ejection charges on D12 3. Noticed the recall on 13mm motors. There is even a bigger manufacturing issue here with 24mm.
Am I turning into just another grumpy old dude posting everywhere saying I won't use those motors? Where has my inner Estes shill gone? Yes, just a grumpy old dude. GET OFF MY LAWN!
Too many bad dates!
Breaking up with Estes is hard to do.
