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What tubing is that sized for, custom roll-wrap?Made a set of 29mm carbon fiber anchor points. Also started making a 29mm 5.5:1 VK mold.
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Upgrade NowWhat tubing is that sized for, custom roll-wrap?Made a set of 29mm carbon fiber anchor points. Also started making a 29mm 5.5:1 VK mold.
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My old Radio Shack scanner died, so I’m on the hunt for a new ham HT that’ll work great for fox hunting a TeleMini.
What tubing is that sized for, custom roll-wrap?
The prepreg is wrapped around a mandrel (aluminum, steel tube......), followed by shrink tape then a cure in the oven. I only make a mold for my nosecones/tailcones.I am intrigued with carbon fiber. Did you make molds to manufacture these parts?
Then the road runner poked his head out, said "Meep meep", and ran away.At ejection the screw eye ripped itself from the balsa coupler. The payload section came falling back and landed about 10ft from the pad. The rocket body floated onto the nearby train tracks and a train came by before we could get the rocket back. It was literally run over by a 100+ car freight train.
Shortest Build Thread Ever.
Then the road runner poked his head out, said "Meep meep", and ran away. Shortest Build Thread Ever.
Nice job.
Wow, that's snazzy. Thanks for the recommendation!Get a Kenwood TH-D74A, you can't take all your money in your casket with you, spend it on all the good stuff.
Gorgeous work. H/I record attempt rocket?Made a set of 29mm carbon fiber anchor points. Also started making a 29mm 5.5:1 VK mold.
Maybe at some points, the waivers around here aren't quite high enough for that... (France)Gorgeous work. H/I record attempt rocket?
Very nice. I’d love to see a post on how the plug & mold work goes.Maybe at some points, the waivers around here aren't quite high enough for that... (France)
3d printed nosecone plug for the mold. It's barely long enough for a Pro29 3G + recovery + electronics.
If it's anything like my tubefin with raked leading and trailing edges, it oughta be a great whistler!Did some design work on a Venn Diagram based rocket. BT-80 LPR tubing and it'll fly on MPR 24mm and 29mm motors. Sometime soon I'll get a build thread going. Cutting the interlocking rings will be ... exciting.
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I finally launched it today. It went up straight but did not glide at all, just spun around till it hit the ground. I lost the nosecone and one fin.Finished my Apogee SR 72 Darkbird
I neglected to mention two things that surprised me, and I spent some time pondering:Flew some rockets for the first time in far too long, at GSSS launch in NJ. It may sound weird but it feels like an enormous weight is off my shoulders.
Despite somewhat iffy conditions, everything I brought with me (including all previously unflown rockets) made it into the air, including the Mini A Heli (twice, not blowing apart), LauncherX, Skywriter Deluxe, Plasma Dart (twice), and Blackfish, plus a Crayon test flight and one Quinstar flight just for fun. Flight details will be posted to the appropriate build thread.
All flew arrow-straight and were recovered successfully, with only the LauncherX sustaining minor cosmetic damage. I wasn't flying very high (small field and windy) but man oh man was it fun.
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