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That was a nice web site, but I thought some one locally might have one they wanted to sell. Dale

I bought my Triple beam scale online at Ebay.( I know what you think.. Ebay but read on) The company is meadow pines. They make a great product and it rivals an ohaus any day. The price is the other…   Read more»

Scale accurate to tenth of gram, 100-200 gram capacity, beam type prefered but usually they are more expensive. Dale

What type of scales you looking for? Digi? Trip-beam? Also what would be considered Cheap? May want to know what specs they need to conform to as units and resolution of units? I have a couple places I get scales…   Read more»

This could be a very good contest to run. I’m interested. Let’s see what kind of interest we have and we’ll run it as a contest at MHM or Oktoberfest. Call it “1 card Rocket Stud” or something.Warren

JW,Let me know if you like to play darts sometime for $$. I get to be 5 feet away while you’re in the back ot he bar getting rebounds off sots on their way to the head. :PJS

If we do this contest, I’ll enter SkyScraper, and 18,000′.Regarding altimeter repeatability… I recently threw all of mine in a chamber. I had 4 PerfectFlites and 2 MW. I was stunned at how close they all came out. I expected…   Read more»

JW,I think I’d as soon go to a Cheetah girls concert. Its not w/o engineering challenge: but the idea of trusting an altimeter to be more accurate than the repeatibility of a particular rocket, I don’t buy into. To be…   Read more»

Heck yeah, I think I’ll enter on every flight! Seriously, it would be worth it to enter $10 to bet on the accuracy of my Rocksim abilities. 😀 ha!

Now this sounds interesting…I might go for it…

I have a missleworks for most of my applications. I was just asking about the MAWD for my SSSS bird simply because of the size.

Ken,Shoot me an email and I can send a copy of my spreadsheet. It’s not perfect, but it works well enough for me.BTW, I need to echo JW’s comments about Missile Works. There great altimeters. I have two of them….   Read more»

I’ve pulled it into Excel, but the baro data is really noisy for pulling derivatives for velocity and accel. Anyone got a spreadsheet with some good smoothing or curve-fitting algorithms in it?Excel does curve fitting. After you plot your raw…   Read more»

I fly the PerfectFlite MAWD quite often, and yes — it was in a conical nosecone in a rocket that coresampled, and the altimeter is fine. Incredible. I also like the PerfectFlite HA45 (Hi-altitude, 45K). It works great for regular…   Read more»

I’ve got a tiny Perfectflite 15k just for logging purposes. I believe the data is in at least a similar format. I’ve pulled it into Excel, but the baro data is really noisy for pulling derivatives for velocity and accel.Anyone…   Read more»

I’m pretty happy with the MAWD as well.Their service is good too. I had the large capacity get a bit loose so I sent it back for repair. It was a quick turn and at no charge (except for the…   Read more»

I’ve flown James Russell’s MAWD more than he has. I like it. I fly that in tandem with an RRC2 and never had any issues with it or getting the data back off of it.One really cool thing is you…   Read more»

I loved my MAWD… it’s still out on the prairie in my SSS bird from an Oktoberfest flight. I’m still offering a reward if it is returned. I’ll buy another one if I don’t find the old one. I also…   Read more»

The bird on the home page of this site is the UprOar flying at BALLS 06. I’m working on getting the construction photo gallery up here on the site. Give me a day or so.Warren

I think a vry easy way to get a smooth finish is to get a piece of Mylar. Bigger than your tube and wrap after you glass it with the mylar. Put it as tight as you can and then…   Read more»