What did you do rocket wise today?

[o1d_dude]

Does anyone no what decade any of these Estes range boxes are from appears not much info on the paperwork black and white box has a patriot in it and the others have alphas inside ??

The first one is from the late 1980’s / early 1990’s.

I know this because it’s the one I bought when my daughter was three years old.

 

[Greg Furtman]

Louis, you need to take the droud out every now and then. Your Cherokee H's fins are on upside down.

J/K! Looks good! Can't wait to see it painted! I need to work on mine this weekend.

Methinks you thinks of an Arapahoe.

 

[kuririn]

Finished assembly of the Folgore last night.

And put together a Sky Condor this morning.

Sky even pre bevels the airfoil in the wings for you!

Build, build, build!

 

[Adam3836]

The first one is from the late 1980’s / early 1990’s.

I know this because it’s the one I bought when my daughter was three years old.

Thanks for the info
Can’t find anything online about these lol
Do you remember the one you bought it came with an alpha right ?

 

[Leo]

@Adam3836 I have the kit in the first picture. For reference, the motors that came with my set are from 1987.

 

[Adam3836]

@Adam3836 I have the kit in the first picture. For reference, the motors that came with my set are from 1987.

Awesome thank you

 

[Adam3836]

A little Estes C6-5 static test today
Little guys pack a punch lol

 

[Joekeyo]

Made good progress on low boom SST. The bulk of the work is done. Also finished up Big Daddy a day or two ago. The large decals turned out good. One thing I learned is to keep everything as wet as practical. I use a spray bottle to wet the rocket. Good practice for the decals on the LBSST.

 

[o1d_dude]

Thanks for the info
Can’t find anything online about these lol
Do you remember the one you bought it came with an alpha right ?

Pretty sure it did.

That would account for the Alpha in rocket collection.

I did buy an Alpha much later with the hardest / heaviest balsa nosecone I’d ever seen. Not one to let a gift like that go to waste, I built it with a 24mm motor tube and dubbed it the “Super Alpha”. It was quite a flyer.

Believe it’s still in my rocket listing on Thrustcurve.org .

 

[Cape Byron]

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And put together a Sky Condor this morning.
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Build, build, build!

The Condor is actually a very well performing glider. I've had one thermal away into the blue. Nice kit.

 

[Cape Byron]

Spacemonkey V-2 starting to look like something...

 

[heada]

Second set of fiberglass and epoxy fin reinforcement on my LOC 7.5" Patriot.

 

[Hobie1dog]

I was on eBay today and found the LDRS # 30 DVD for sale, wish I could find someone wanting to get rid of of a big collection of high power rocket videos

 

[Charles_McG]

Got the Terrier Malemute off the ground.

 

[jqavins]

Sweet!

 

[rharshberger]

Got the Terrier Malemute off the ground.

Looked like a nice drag separation between stages, and the ignition looked nicely timed as well. Did you use a Quantum for staging? If so could you share the settings over in your build thread.

 

[Charles_McG]

Looked like a nice drag separation between stages, and the ignition looked nicely timed as well. Did you use a Quantum for staging? If so could you share the settings over in your build thread.

Yes, nice drag separation, those there was a tiny backup charge.

I used an Eggtimer Proton for staging. I can put the settings over the in build thread. There are also 2 Eggfinder Minis on board, one per stage. Didn't need them -this time.

 

[mbeels]

Got the Terrier Malemute off the ground.

Awesome! That H399 really got it moving. What is planned for the next flight?

 

[Charles_McG]

Awesome! That H399 really got it moving. What is planned for the next flight?

H399 to H53

 

[Deenelson85]

Sanded on a fiberglass body tube i am building. Done a motor test of a new KNSB ratio with RIO done better than expected!

 

[Funkworks]

After probably 30 minutes of dry fit testing, and practising alignment, I mixed up some rocketpoxy and glued in the top motor mount ring/floor for my scratch-built Smurf rocket.

I slid on the lower ring to make sure the alignment was correct but will be removing it to add a bottom fillet to the top one. I had to practice removing it just to make sure I could.

This step is probably the more critical one of the whole project. Because the height and rotation angle of the upper mmt ring have to be perfect for it to act as a floor and also allow the fin release mechanism to work.

Most of the parts are done now and I’m finding that gluing them together isn’t to be taken lightly.

I’ll have pics in the build thread later.

 

[Joshua F Thomas]

Test fit the Tall Boy kit. It is, indeed, tall. Sags a little in horizontal but is totally straight when vertical.

 

[rharshberger]

Worked a bit more on my BT50C Altimeter Bay for an Eggtimer Quark, 180mah 2s LiPo, and a Missleworks Screw Switch. So far its taken 4 iterations go get this far but its looking really good, now I just have to make a few more changes, like the altimeter will be permanently wired into the bay and the screws at each end will function as connector posts for the ematches. Battery leads will be unchanged unless I can shorten them a bunch, and the switch will be wired direct to the board and a JST connector to allow the battery to be removed. Sled it printed from Overture natural PETG, and due to layer direction and good layer to layer adhesion is extremely strong in tension (I cant break it by pulling on the ends) and the side walls along the altimeter sides are not more than .045" thick tapering top and bottom to zero thickness. By building a Quark just for this sled I can raise the altimeter almost .125"gaining much needed space on the back of the sled.

First three iterations.

View of "top" side.

Another view of top side

View of bottom side with switch mounted, it all fits with about .06" of clearance to the coupler tube.

Side view.

Just how tight things are.

 

[XrayLizard]

It’s not what I did ... however the GF ordered a condor boost glider and a Corporal kit from apogee ! Lol!
This will be kits two and three for her.
Mind you we are in early 60’s of age haha
Her new name is rocket princess!

although I did get a new quality miter guage for my bandsaw.. and it works like a charm

 

[o1d_dude]

Test fit the Tall Boy kit. It is, indeed, tall. Sags a little in horizontal but is totally straight when vertical.
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Sag is okay. You might be able to enter it in a Super Roc contest if you meet the specs.

They sag a lot.

 

[Rocketjunkie]

Made some more 18 mm motors, a 6" F15 (50 N-s) and 2 9" F25 (70 N-s). Will static test. New curative both the propellant and delay grain.

The previous 2 9" motors suffered maximum catos blowing the case.

 

[Wally Ferrer]

Another fun one, ready for paint...

 

[Lugnut56]

Did a little more work on the Pyramid, but didn't go as good as I wanted due to warpage of the side panels. Nothing that can't be worked around, but it adds time to the project.

 

[Hobie1dog]

ordered the Mark Canepa book, "Large and Dangerous Rocketships"

 

[Antares JS]

Assembled 15 pieces of wood into 3 Mega Red Max fins. First go at using Titebond, seems alright so far. A bit more runny than I am used to since I usually use Aleene's Tacky Glue.