Goblin's on hold, as I'm concentrating on these three for the June ROSCO launch.
I ordered it directly from Pemberton Technologies. A bit of lag between ordering and shipping but worth the wait.
Glad to hear reality was better than the forecast.
I’m gonna paint it box colors (boring, I know)! I love the classic Aerotech look, and I got me some custom Aerotech logo stickers (not sure the copyright laws on that one haha). I sadly don’t have a great place to fly. I single-handedly got Rocketry banned at my local park, and the nearest place to fly is over 3 hours from where I’m based. Classic so-cal. I’ll be sure to post on this forum as I continue to work on it! Thanks for showing interest, friend!
Ha! That’s a story for another day. I’ll keep the whole forum updated!!
I’d be interested in hearing what you think of the solvo 6 printer after you’ve used it for a bit. I was toying with the idea of picking one up, or maybe one of the new solvol 7 printers. Primarily focused on rocket parts, but maybe some terrain tiles and other doodads here and there (phone mount for car, replacement buttons / battery covers for electronics. Custom project box enclosures etc)Assembled a SOVOL 06 Plus 3d printer, primarily for exercising my few remaining brain cells, and for rocket stuff of course, what else? MUCH less elaborate than the bargain unit I bought last year. Took about 3 hours, some of which was spent looking for that 3mm screw that I dropped.() On one screw I had to remove the bit and twiddle it with my fingers to tighten, so spacing was a bit snug in some places. Still, the instructions were follow-able, though Chinese-To-English almost always has bobbles therein... But...unlike the el-cheapo unit I bought last year, this consisted of already-assembled units rather than individual parts to be assembled. So much easier.
Now it's time for the hard part: learning to use it.
Are the roll/foldable? Make a chute/streamer out of them for the banana rocket
The size of the SOVOL 6 Plus was great but the difficulty getting it to work...it finally ended up quitting in the middle of leveling. Sent it back.
Gnarly!! Sorry that happened mate
On a positive note, the 3D printed and GF laminated fins stayed attached and fully survived. So good proof of concept.
Well I guess that answers my questions about your experience with the sovols…I disassembled and packed up the SOVOL 3D printer...
In the middle of self-leveling, it just quit. Unplugging, turning off and on, no use. Dead.
Considering the issues I had actually getting it to print, it's probably just as well. Tech support consisted of a few answers to common problems (which didn't do any good) and a place for comments. I didn't find any responses from SOVOL in the comment list, and didn't receive emails about the issues I had.
So despite the price and the features, I won't be buying another SOVOL. So it goes.
Wonderful to see you (here) out and about!
I used duplicolor metal cast on a tau zero. And duplicolor mirage on my L1 king kraken.
Yeah, I’ve been lurking for a while. (Still 20 pages back in the what did you do rocketry wise thread. - getting caught up) Haven’t been doing much rocketry related stuff lately, but starting to get back into the swing of it.
I do that on most (all) my builds these days… (well not really these days, I haven’t built anything in months, not since the Miss Riley 24 I finished a while back)
Even better day today: despite constantly threatening forecasts constantly falling backward on the clock, we saw no rain, mostly mild winds, and a lot of clear patches in the sky, culminating in a totally cloudless sky by the end of the day. In terms of weather, it was the best day we've seen in Seymour in more than a year. A glorious day for rocketry, even though I only managed a single (very fun) flight.
Man, that's really cool. I need to teach my girlfriend to laminate fins.On a positive note, the 3D printed and GF laminated fins stayed attached and fully survived. So good proof of concept.
The one regret I have on my King Kraken build was not installing mount points (t-nuts) for rail buttons before installing the MMT… especially now that I’ve converted it to Dual Deploy.
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