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"ONE LAST SHOT"
This might be a slow rebuild do to how hot my garage is this time a year. First a little history. I built this rocket back in 2012 as a motor deploy using the 38mm motor. One day I used to much grease on the forward closure O ring that wicked into the BP and didn't allow the BP to do it's job and ended in a lawn dart sad ending. The fin can survived so I was able to rebuild it again. At that time I decided to rebuild it with DD. This has been one of my go to rockets for every launch I go to. In 2013 I was at a out of state launch and on the last day I lost the rocket to the tree gods due to the main coming out a apogee. At some point it was found and February of this year I went to the GRITS launch and a very nice fellow rocketeer handed it back. So I stripped it down checked the altimeter that check out good and have test flown it. Now it's time to get off my butt and get it flying again. I picked up some more BT that is all I have to replace. I will use the same avbay that survived the weather. Here are some before and after pictures of this abused rocket.
This might be a slow rebuild do to how hot my garage is this time a year. First a little history. I built this rocket back in 2012 as a motor deploy using the 38mm motor. One day I used to much grease on the forward closure O ring that wicked into the BP and didn't allow the BP to do it's job and ended in a lawn dart sad ending. The fin can survived so I was able to rebuild it again. At that time I decided to rebuild it with DD. This has been one of my go to rockets for every launch I go to. In 2013 I was at a out of state launch and on the last day I lost the rocket to the tree gods due to the main coming out a apogee. At some point it was found and February of this year I went to the GRITS launch and a very nice fellow rocketeer handed it back. So I stripped it down checked the altimeter that check out good and have test flown it. Now it's time to get off my butt and get it flying again. I picked up some more BT that is all I have to replace. I will use the same avbay that survived the weather. Here are some before and after pictures of this abused rocket.
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