Launch Lugs
It's always a small moral victory when I remember to put the lugs on before final painting.
I prepped for the mounting by scraping the primer off the fin at the targeted attachment points. This is something that *would* have been better to have masked beforehand, but I hadn't really finalized how I wanted to do it yet.
The lugs are positioned away from the body enough to clear the plasmasphere with a comfortable bit of clearance.
Lugs were then glued on, nestled against a piece of Al angle for alignment.
Before filleting, I checked the position and alignment of the two lugs. Good clearance over the ping pong ball, and the rod appears to be parallel to the airframe.
Standard fillets finish the job, and now, at long last, the most fun part of any rocket build can begin: fin attachment.
(yes this is a bit out-of-order.... I did all this just before masking the ball)
It's always a small moral victory when I remember to put the lugs on before final painting.
I prepped for the mounting by scraping the primer off the fin at the targeted attachment points. This is something that *would* have been better to have masked beforehand, but I hadn't really finalized how I wanted to do it yet.
The lugs are positioned away from the body enough to clear the plasmasphere with a comfortable bit of clearance.
Lugs were then glued on, nestled against a piece of Al angle for alignment.
Before filleting, I checked the position and alignment of the two lugs. Good clearance over the ping pong ball, and the rod appears to be parallel to the airframe.
Standard fillets finish the job, and now, at long last, the most fun part of any rocket build can begin: fin attachment.
(yes this is a bit out-of-order.... I did all this just before masking the ball)