What did you do rocket wise today?

[KarlS]

bought another kit at HL on sale.

 

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Still can't see the image (need permission).

So sorry - my bad.
Let me know if you have other problems with the site.
It's new and I'm just starting to populate with build info.

 

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Still can't see the image (need permission).

Maybe now? Google and I seem to be arguing.

 

[KC3KNM]

Spent today making a motor/fin mount.

 

[jlabrasca]

Maybe now? Google and I seem to be arguing.

looks like you've got it sorted.

It also looks like you milled down through the plywood?

What are you'd doing for work holding?

 

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looks like you've got it sorted.

It also looks like you milled down through the plywood?

What are you'd doing for work holding?

I screwed the stock, at 4 corners, to some scrap plywood and attached that to my surfaced waste board. Since it was apparent the plywood wasn't flat, and all cuts were through, I just increased the depth to compensate. I left 0.5mm holding tabs at the cardinal points of each larger circle.

 

[Nytrunner]

Watching paint dry on the L2

 

[jlabrasca]

I screwed the stock, at 4 corners, to some scrap plywood and attached that to my surfaced waste board. Since it was apparent the plywood wasn't flat, and all cuts were through, I just increased the depth to compensate. I left 0.5mm holding tabs at the cardinal points of each larger circle.

Got it. The ring looks good. Are you doing the CAM in Fusion 360?

I have a pile of supplementary/sacrificial spoil boards like that -- with cut lines from going through the stock. I got one of these

https://www.whitesiderouterbits.com/collections/cnc-spoilboard-surfacing/products/6210

to face off the spoil boards. Still getting the occasional blow-through, but only when I screw up the z-height zero (or when the stock isn't flat).

I've had good success using a variation of this technique


for work holding with aluminum stock up to 6 mm thick (you can see the tape in post 19017). No tabs to cut and file.

EDIT: Just noticed that you wrote "my surfaced waste board" not "surface of my wasteboard" -- so you probably know all this stuff already.

 

[CzTeacherMan]

Got working on a custom Wildman Demon yesterday and today. It's a 3"airframe with a 38mm mount. And the real custom part...5 fins! Motor mount went together yesterday as well as the vent band and av-bay. Today, I attached the first fin this morning, drilled holes for the HED and av-bay. Then I painted the NC and vent band. Fin/boattail assembly will be finished tomorrow-ish, then I'll attach airframe and get working on fillets. I'm super excited about this build since my Demon 98 gets a little pricey to launch since my rocket budget shrank when my youngest was born. This will allow me to fly my favorite rocket design on my current budget and with the 5-fin design that I love so much also. Probably won't be able to fly it until MWP, but it'll be a gorgeous one-of-a-kind bird. I'll be able to fly it on fast 29mm motors all the way through the longest 38mm motors available. Very, very excited for this one.

 

[BDB]

Just opened this box of awesomeness!

 

[CzTeacherMan]

And while I was at it...
I decided to build the Mac Performance Black Fly. I toasted my first one at URRF 5 back in June, picked up a replacement and have been sitting on it since. Breaks my heart to have to build a new one, but I love that rocket so much, it just has to be done.

 

[blackjack2564]

Drew up OP files

 

[anbhtblr]

Got it. The ring looks good. Are you doing the CAM in Fusion 360?

I have a pile of supplementary/sacrificial spoil boards like that -- with cut lines from going through the stock. I got one of these

https://www.whitesiderouterbits.com/collections/cnc-spoilboard-surfacing/products/6210

to face off the spoil boards. Still getting the occasional blow-through, but only when I screw up the z-height zero (or when the stock isn't flat).

I've had good success using a variation of this technique


for work holding with aluminum stock up to 6 mm thick (you can see the tape in post 19017). No tabs to cut and file.

EDIT: Just noticed that you wrote "my surfaced waste board" not "surface of my wasteboard" -- so you probably know all this stuff already.

Thanks for the info/techniques.

I do use double sided tape for some wood/G10 projects, but I didn't even consider it for aluminum, my bad.
I hadn't seen the tape/super-glue technique before - I'll have to keep it in mind.

As to your earlier question re software, I use QCAD for design and EstlCam for the cutting programs.

Yes - I do true-up/surface my work surfaces (usually).

Thanks again for the info.

 

[jlabrasca]

Finished the repairs on the Mini A Heli after it lawn-darted at this month's LPR launch.

The assembly instructions call for cutting three slots in the section forward of the helicopter hinges, to vent the ejection charge. These slots pretty much guarantee that the rocket will not fly again after hard nose landing.

For the replacement, these slots were replaced with three rows of 4 mm holes. The replaced section was soaked in CA to stiffen it.

It was handy to have the BT5 tube cutter that came with the kit, as well as the 13 mm motor block pusher tube to use as coupler stock for the replaced section.

I also enlarged the holes for the thread that holds the rotors down. I am not sure if the failure of the rotors to deploy on the first launch was because the thread got hung up, or if it failed to burn through on ejection. For the next launch I am thinking of using sewing elastic in place of plain cotton thread.

 

[Creeps]

Baffle dry.
Fins papered and tacked.
Motor mount drying in the garage.
Body tube sanded, I don't worry much about filling in the spirals.

Time to don the respirator, and get a coating of thin CA on the nose cone (kindly sourced, along with the fin set, from eRockets) of the Estes Sky Raider clone I've had on the build pile.

I'm hoping it will fly as nicely on a D12-7 as my nineteen eighties original. Which, I've put up only once since the turn of the millennium; not wanting to lose it after all these years.

Then, it's time to see what the design can do on some Aerotech propellant.

 

[neil_w]

Printed out a whole mess of new bolt head decals for my IRIS-T.

 

[Tobor]

I finally got around to applying first coat of primer on my 3" BlackFly. It probably won't be fully dressed for Woosh by Sunday, but that's okay.

 

[Wayco]

Built another Eggfinder today. Start to finish in less than an hour. It helps that this one is the fourth transmitter I have built this month. Three of them went into new kits we have built this summer, and this one goes into a 3" two stage rocket I bought from CJ a couple of years ago. Hoping to fly it at Airfest this year.
Wrote up a list of rockets for that launch, nine rockets, with three flying on research motors, the two stage flying on two 54mm motors, three on 75mm motors, and one 98mm motor.

 

[G2Rockets]

I started sanding the inside of my Av-bay so the lids will fit. I’ve been flying a lot of little H and Big G’s. Getting anywhere from 1300 to 3500 ft.

 

[Thorfire]

Completed the finish on the AMW red max 'Der Drachen Max' for tomorrow.

 

[blackjack2564]

Built a M-1450 motor, glued it up.

 

[OverTheTop]

Nothing

 

[jlabrasca]

Tried to impose some order on this nonsense

(there is more, out the frame to the left and the right)

 

[Charles_McG]

Parts for my Cosmic Interceptor downscale.

 

[neil_w]

Cool, how far "down" is that? I have a full set of unused decals if you need scans or anything.

 

[Charles_McG]

49%. BT50 body and 13mm motor mount. My younger boy, Asa, took the full scale build away from me - but I scanned everything before he started. Thanks for the offer.

Edit: And a PNC-50SP, which I had handy, and I decided was close enough.

 

[MikeT]

Ordered a 3.90 Mercury Capsule and Redstone kit from Boyce Aerospace. My first 3d printed build.

Mike

 

[jqavins]

Thought better of painting, again, due to weather.

 

[Andrew_ASC]

Picked up some Estes E-12-4 motors for the Conquest and extreme 12 builds. Also at hobby lobby they had Bob Smith’s glue, some CA, and some Testor’s cement. Haven’t done a lpr/mpr build in ages. -$57. Still don’t have a place to launch these yet hahaha.

 

[dhbarr]

Started assembly of my bps.space r1 kit.