What did you do rocket wise today?

[Adam3836]

Paint done on the Olympus
Decals go on tomorrow
Then a launch with and egg inside

 

[bad_idea]

Thursday: scrambled to prep some rockets when next weekend's club launch was moved forward to today.

Friday: wrote checklists.

This morning: trying to wake up.

 

[Greg Furtman]

Paint done on the Olympus
Decals go on tomorrow
Then a launch with and egg inside

That's just begging to have some blinking RGB LEDs in it for a night launch.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IhJm0JHqyF8XWDYy9bmD92v-9AQYShdP/view

 

[Adam3836]

Ohhhh man your right
How did I not think of that lol
Was focused on launching an egg
Led light night launch sounds even better

That's just begging to have some blinking RGB LEDs in it for a night launch.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IhJm0JHqyF8XWDYy9bmD92v-9AQYShdP/view

 

[Adam3836]

Decals on

 

[Michael L]

Unpacked my Composite Warehouse Prometheus 4 (60" sustainer), cleaned the smaller parts with soap and water, ordered some necessary parts like an Aeropack motor retainer and tail cone assembly, hardware, recovery harness (since I didn't win )

 

[Old School Doug]

Fill then sand. Fill some more then sand some more. Sand and prime. Sand some more and prime some more. Rinse and repeat !!!

 

[rdrown]

Just finished up with an eggfinder transmitter and LCD receiver with GPS module. All kits work great, no problems with assembly. Can’t wait to get this in the air and test it out with a rocket.

 

[BigMacDaddy]

Jumping on the meme bandwagon - Made a BT-60 Dwayne "The Rocket" Johnson nose cone...

 

[Five]

Finished my Forte

 

[Lord Rory Gin]

I picked up a 4' 1010 extension rail with attachement hardware. I am going to use it for the slower moving liftoffs to extend my 6' 1010 rail.

 

[Greg Furtman]

Fill then sand. Fill some more then sand some more. Sand and prime. Sand some more and prime some more. Rinse and repeat !!!

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[OverTheTop]

Yesterday was club launch day. Good attendance but the wind was up a bit and the cloud down a little. There were a couple of flights up to a couple of thousand feet, and lots of LPR/MPR.

I flew my Falcon 9 for two flights on D motors. These were my first and last flights for the year.

Let's hope 2022 is better for flying, in more ways than one.

 

[Wayco]

Cleaned motor casings from last weekends launch. Five snap ring casings, a CTI 54mm 6XL and a 24/60 AT case. Then I inventoried all of our 54, 75 and 98 snap ring casings and put them away.

 

[NateB]

I unboxed some goodies from Loki today and part of me wanted to keep them in the well protected packaging. USPS wasn't going to damage this one.

 

[jFlds]

Making some progress on my trailer set-up. I've had it out to 2 launches so far. What a game changer. Best thing I've done since I quit smoking.

 

[RocketTree]

I would like to install 1010 rail buttons and 1/4" launch lugs on this "lightweight" minie magg scratch-build, so it can be launched from either pad.

Looking for suggestions: This is a 3 fin, 5.5" rocket. There is enough room to install the buttons and lugs all between one set of fins. Should I do that, or install them on completely separate sides?

 

[jqavins]

I'd different sides, but I don't think it's important.

 

[Five]

Making some progress on my trailer set-up. I've had it out to 2 launches so far. What a game changer. Best thing I've done since I quit smoking.

Congrats on quitting smoking. Four years and counting since I quit.

 

[neil_w]

Made a little piece of basswood ply, which may or may not make it into an upcoming build.

Trivial, but given that it's the first but of rocket-related building I've done in over 6 months, feels significant to me.

 

[DigBaddy]

I would like to install 1010 rail buttons and 1/4" launch lugs on this "lightweight" minie magg scratch-build, so it can be launched from either pad.

Looking for suggestions: This is a 3 fin, 5.5" rocket. There is enough room to install the buttons and lugs all between one set of fins. Should I do that, or install them on completely separate sides?

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I'd go same side.

 

[boatgeek]

I would like to install 1010 rail buttons and 1/4" launch lugs on this "lightweight" minie magg scratch-build, so it can be launched from either pad.

Looking for suggestions: This is a 3 fin, 5.5" rocket. There is enough room to install the buttons and lugs all between one set of fins. Should I do that, or install them on completely separate sides?

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I like to put lugs into the fin root fillet, so I’d put the rail buttons centered between fins and the lug in one of the adjacent fillets.

 

[kuririn]

This is a 3 fin, 5.5" rocket. There is enough room to install the buttons and lugs all between one set of fins. Should I do that, or install them on completely separate sides?

Probably doesn't matter, whichever is most aesthetically pleasing to you.

I like to put lugs into the fin root fillet, so I’d put the rail buttons centered between fins and the lug in one of the adjacent fillets.

If I were putting them on the same side this is how I would do it.

BTW here's a pic of mine with a 1/2" lug on one side and rail buttons on another side.

 

[jqavins]

Cleaned up the rocket desk, and resumed work on the Terrier-Orion two stage conversion.

 

[mjremijan]

Big Bertha build. Starting a Big Bertha build. I've wanted a Big Bertha rocket since I was a kid and I finally got one I'm going to document the build on Twitter too. When complete, I'm planning on making a YouTube video on the build as well. In general, I don't see much rocketry videos on YouTube.

 

[DigBaddy]

Big Bertha build. Starting a Big Bertha build. I've wanted a Big Bertha rocket since I was a kid and I finally got one I'm going to document the build on Twitter too. When complete, I'm planning on making a YouTube video on the build as well. In general, I don't see much rocketry videos on YouTube.

I suspect you'll build a Super Big Bertha after that!

 

[jqavins]

Or a Boosted Bertha. Or a Super Boosted Bertha!

 

[cwbullet]

I tested conductive igniters and started a website that will have pyrogen formulas and directions to make your own.

 

[cautery]

I finally installed OpenRocket v15.3 and got past the initial learning curve to start modeling my Lvl 1/2 build.
Just a start, and I am sure there are better ways to do what I have done, but I am mainly interested in making sure the overall numbers pass the sanity check.



Pretty sure I will stick with OR v. RockSim v10 for now...

 

[cautery]

This afternoon, I borrowed the prep/work stand designs from "Inverted Pursuits Laboratory" and merged/modded them to fit my purposes and limited space:

Here are a few images....

Mode 1: Dual stands for large/long/unwieldy pieces.




Mode 2: Merged, single stand with extended feet when you need the piece to stay put.




Mode 3: Merged, single stand without extended feet for use in tight or crowded conditions.




Mode ZERO: Dual stands flattened for storage/travel. A single hook/nail under the 4-way cross. Note: The 4 legs that are rotated in toward each other were all shortened by 1/4" so that the caps would clear and the stands would lay/hang flat. The 20" merging pieces will be stapped to the bottoms with hook and hook straps to hold it all in a compact package. The design could easily be expanded to a double-decker design if needed/wanted, by simply rotating legs 180 degrees; fitting 4-way crosses at the junction of the full 10" legs, and replacing the Tees with elbows; relocating the Tees on the bottom level with additional legs cut for the bottom.



This'll get me by until I come up with something I like better.

[EDIT: Finally found the image sizing option.... no more "in your face" pictures. ]