What did you do rocket wise today?

[Cape Byron]

Still working at MIL’s. No balsa, no BTS, no centering rings…

Not to be discouraged, I attacked the cupboards and found cardboard and a cling wrap core.

Who needs balsa? “We don’t need no steenkin’ balsa!”

Anyhoo… played with some shapes and it’s pretty strong. I’ll play with the idea more when I get back to the farm with real BTa motor mount and a nose cone.

Followed by a swing test or three.

 

[GrouchoDuke]

Anyhoo… played with some shapes and it’s pretty strong. I’ll play with the idea more when I get back to the farm with real BTa motor mount and a nose cone.

That is super cool. Great idea!

 

[Cape Byron]

That is super cool. Great idea!

Thanks! I couldn’t have done it without the whiskey…

 

[Mugs914]

Great pics, @Danomite45! (Nice tree landing too... )

 

[lakeroadster]

Found a box on my porch that contained, among other things, these:

Is there a little figurine of "Spock" inside?

 

[Grog6]

I found exactly what rocket I've been looking for: a Sentinel. It was the one that inadvertently got the fins put on backwards.
I gave it to a large rattlesnake my buddy tells me. I'd forgotten what happened to it.

 

[Antares JS]

After three easy ones, I decided to grab a more challenging one off the build pile.

 

[Wally Ferrer]

After three easy ones, I decided to grab a more challenging one off the build pile.

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Mine is in dire need of repairs, love the kit. Easy to make it bottom heavy, go light on the fillets.

 

[Joekeyo]

Work continues on the Super Mars Snooper. Made progress on the parachute. Both are nearly done and will probably be completed in the next day or two.

 

[Joekeyo]

After three easy ones, I decided to grab a more challenging one off the build pile.

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It has the same style as the Astron Explorer or the Trident. After launching the Explorer last week, it's my new favorite rocket.

 

[Greg Furtman]

Just ordered a gallon of West Systems epoxy, 105/206. My existing stock is well past its use-by date and almost empty anyway.

WEST Systems makes great epoxy products. I've been using them for 35 years now. The interesting thing about WEST System is that it was developed by the Gougeon Brothers, who were wooden boat builders. They developed an epoxy that has the least toxicity since they used it every day.

 

[Ray Lecture]

Finished putting stickers from Stickershock23 on my Mega Black Max

 

[PigHeaded]

Took a break from software and worked on the engine test stand. Thank you Richard Nakka!

Only broke two old vices in the process…who knew 3/4 inch emt would be that hard to flatten.. I’m exhausted!

 

[lakeroadster]

Finished the Cygnus Probe Ship Design and Drawings.

 

[Re-Bar Ricky]

Finished up my Estes Crossbow SST. I checked the mail and I had a nose cone from eRockets. It's a BNC-55EX for my Estes Ranger clone (#1955). Now that I finally have it all together I can get started. This is the only rocket I ever lost when I first got into rocketry in the mid-80s.

I also had a package on the porch from ACSupply - an Estes Mars Longship! This is a replacement kit for one I ordered a couple of weeks ago that arrived damaged. Kudos to Doug at ACSupply who sent out a new kit. That one will take some time to work on.

 

[BigMacDaddy]

Trying to finish / prep my recent scratch-builds for their first flights...

 

[Grog6]

Dude, the way to flatten tubing like that with a vise is to put in on the flat anvil portion on the vise behind the jaws, and smack it with a BFH. One hit and it's flat.
Cast vises will not flatten it well without breaking, btdt. A forged steel vice will, but last I looked they were >500 bux.
after looking. a 20 ton press is cheaper. and more useful.

 

[PigHeaded]

Dude, the way to flatten tubing like that with a vise is to put in on the flat anvil portion on the vise behind the jaws, and smack it with a BFH. One hit and it's flat.
Cast vises will not flatten it well without breaking, btdt. A forged steel vice will, but last I looked they were >500 bux.

I agree! And the one I bought to replace them did have the anvil and I did get my “big“ hammer out to help out.

 

[Grog6]

I found a short piece of railroad rail that had broken off a few years ago, and made it into an anvil, for shaping various metal parts.

 

[dhbarr]

I found a short piece of railroad rail that had broken off a few years ago, and made it into an anvil, for shaping various metal parts.

Vevor sells cast steel anvils for outrageously low sums. I got an 88lber for about $1.70/lb or so. Not as hard as a Kohlswa, but vastly superior to a vise or cast iron anvil. A sledge head makes a decent small anvil in a pinch.

 

[rharshberger]

Vevor sells cast steel anvils for outrageously low sums. I got an 88lber for about $1.70/lb or so. Not as hard as a Kohlswa, but vastly superior to a vise or cast iron anvil. A sledge head makes a decent small anvil in a pinch.

Please dont use a sledge head as an anvil, if the two hammer heads strike together they can spall off splinters of steel causing injury dont ask me how I know. Hammers in most cases have hardened faces.

 

[GrouchoDuke]

Thanks! I couldn’t have done it without the whiskey…

Believe me, I understand.

 

[OverTheTop]

Started assembling a Yalga kit. Fins tomorrow. This is my first LPR kit for years.

 

[MikeT]

Ordered a Katana.

Mike

 

[Charles_McG]

First stack of my Misty Picture Talos Terrier build.

 

[mjremijan]

Finished the Cygnus Probe Ship Design and Drawings.

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That is sooooo cool! The Black Hole was one of my favorite movies as a kid. Great Job! Would love to buy one from you!

 

[lakeroadster]

That is sooooo cool! The Black Hole was one of my favorite movies as a kid. Great Job! Would love to buy one from you!

This one has a lot of custom wood lathe turned pieces. Check out my build thread link below.

 

[dhbarr]

Please dont use a sledge head as an anvil, if the two hammer heads strike together they can spall off splinters of steel causing injury dont ask me how I know. Hammers in most cases have hardened faces.

Anvils have hardened faces. You're supposed to strike the squishy metal, not the anvil

 

[PigHeaded]

Ordered a Katana.

Mike

Great choice! Got my L2 on one. Great flyer!

 

[Doug Holverson]

Fiddling with the resin printer trying to print small PNCs and the ilk. I'm wondering if those little MPC-AVI-Quest small parts that I recreated ( https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4827180 ) are too small to property print in the current state of the art hobbyist resin printing?