What did you do rocket wise today?
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Just how thin are they? You can't have been too too stingy with the glue if the mount held up in flight.
Gave the MidiBertha (scratchbuilt, shorter than the stock BB) a coat of flat black topped with gloss orange. Flat black first because I'm looking for a darker orange for the Thunderbird 3. I think it came out about right. I'll be painting some TB3 parts before assembly.
mounted the 98mm motor mount in the V2 and poured epoxy into the base
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Epoxy In the DDM unit on the Rocketdyne project.
Punched out and dry fitted the Blender just to say I did something else rocketry today. Also assembled F51-10NT drilled to 8 for Aerobee 150 Jr on June 17.
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Zeroed out my can of Acryli-Quik white primer right as I got *just* enough coverage to move on to color coats. And I mean I was getting unpredictable spurts and pushing through until the very end. Kept moving the can back and forth in front of the rocket and holding it at different angles until no more paint spurts came out, only propellant. Perfect.
Off with me to Zoro.com.
ETA: Zoro.com counts sales tax toward the $50 minimum order total to get free shipping. Nice!
Off with me to Zoro.com.
ETA: Zoro.com counts sales tax toward the $50 minimum order total to get free shipping. Nice!
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They're heavy cardstock - 1/16".
opened up the Big Daddy package and took the balsa fin sheet out and stuck it a drawer. NO MORE BALSA
Old School Doug
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Added "Don't Drink & Paint" to the multi-build family.
1) Got the fins cut, started on the mmt and decided to give Bondo spot putty a try for filling the body spirals. If painting goes well, I may never go back to filling with CWF. The sand down phase went so much faster with Bondo!!
2) The Crawler ( I may open it up for a better name once finished) has all the fins mounted and fillets applied.
3) Final color coat is on the fin can of the AZT. The base coat is done on the nosecone and payload section. Should shoot the final color on Thursday.
4) Final color is done on the body and nosecone of the King Kraken. The inside of the tube fins got the final coat of primer and have been finish sanded. 1st coat of primer is on the exterior of the fins.
Looke like I'll be on track to have all completed by the next club launch on the weekend of the 17th.
1) Got the fins cut, started on the mmt and decided to give Bondo spot putty a try for filling the body spirals. If painting goes well, I may never go back to filling with CWF. The sand down phase went so much faster with Bondo!!
2) The Crawler ( I may open it up for a better name once finished) has all the fins mounted and fillets applied.
3) Final color coat is on the fin can of the AZT. The base coat is done on the nosecone and payload section. Should shoot the final color on Thursday.
4) Final color is done on the body and nosecone of the King Kraken. The inside of the tube fins got the final coat of primer and have been finish sanded. 1st coat of primer is on the exterior of the fins.
Looke like I'll be on track to have all completed by the next club launch on the weekend of the 17th.
Rearranged the rocket wall yet again to fit my two latest builds. Still may be room to squeeze in one of two more, but then something's gotta give.
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Did a 2075g batch of my propellant. Got 6 38mm, 4 54mm, and 2 75mm grains and had nothing left over! Next time I want to make that combo I'll up it to 2100g.
Only three more batches like that and I should be ready for LDRS!
Only three more batches like that and I should be ready for LDRS!
I sanded on and off all day again. Finally got the SI ready for another can of primer. Now it's primed and sitting outside on my painting pole. And yes it took a whole can of primer. I got two cans of gloss white ready for the final, I hope, coats of color. Vinyl is ordered. Now we wait.
tsmith1315
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Are you using a 5 qt mixer?
I decided to get back into rocketry on April 24th of this year. Went to the hobby store the next day and purchased an Estes Big Daddy.
Then I went down the rabbit hole of HPR and set my sights on becoming L1 certified.. ordered a Wildman kit and finished it in time for the May 21st launch, where it flew successfully.
Being both a widower and retired, I like to tinker with stuff on my workbench, and building rockets was evidently just what I needed to keep the boredom at bay.
Anyway, today I took a picture of what I've built in the last six weeks.
Then I went down the rabbit hole of HPR and set my sights on becoming L1 certified.. ordered a Wildman kit and finished it in time for the May 21st launch, where it flew successfully.
Being both a widower and retired, I like to tinker with stuff on my workbench, and building rockets was evidently just what I needed to keep the boredom at bay.
Anyway, today I took a picture of what I've built in the last six weeks.
Outstanding, you're quite the modeler
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Now, start designing your own stuff. Scratch building or at least kit bashing is a whole other rabbit hole.
tsmith1315
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You’re gonna need a bigger boat!
Hmm, maybe. That's really my workbench area, I've been reluctant to intrude. The Quinstar is way up and out of the way, doesn't really count. Will have to work on it.
Oh, and I need a bunch more hooks.
That space between the floor joists is wide open and unintrusive.
But "nonintrusive" is sort of the opposite of "nicely displayed". Some more on vertical stands might work, sitting on that filing cabinet.
Anyway, after one regular speed and one uncommonly fast neil_w builds, what's next?
Odd'l Break-Away as a quickie time-filler until the next scratch build.
I recently found most of my unfinished Break-Away in a yet to be unpacked moving box. Most of it. How do most of the segments wind up in the same box, but not all of them? 
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They “broke away” from the (un)pack(ed moving box)I recently found most of my unfinished Break-Away in a yet to be unpacked moving box. Most of it. How do most of the segments wind up in the same box, but not all of them?
(I’ll show myself to the door now)
6 quart. I've done batches up to 2500g, but they start creeping up the sides some while mixing so I've decided that's my limit in there.
tsmith1315
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That’s a bit more than I would have thought you could get from that size bowl!
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