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Apogee deploy being preferred is a good point. Who’ll be the first to test that out? 🙂 [Out of thread but pertinent: I have an old friend named Charles Morris who used to (maybe he still does) work for JPL…   Read more»

We have two scopes – an 8″ Dob, and a 16″ Dob. The 16″ is a monster that we haul all over the country. It is too bulky to track rockets, you have to stand on a ladder to reach…   Read more»

I’d like to make my scope available to anyone who wants to use it to try and track their bird. OTOH, I’d forego using myself it if anyone, and I do mean ANYONE felt that this would be innapporiate. There…   Read more»

I have an offer that I’d like to float by all you SSS geeks. Let me know what you think.Rules stipulate that electronic tracking is NOT allowed, either via beepers or xsmitters. Optical tracking is obviously OK. Along those lines,…   Read more»

The bigger bicycle tower doesn’t go down to 24mm-sized airframes. In fact, it may not even go down to 38mm. It is pretty much a 54mm and up tower. So everyone knows, it is only about 5’9″ tall. That one…   Read more»

Indeed the little bicycle tower is in the trailer… however, with you bigger bicycle tower, I don’t know why you’d want to fly out of it. Your tower is much tighter…Warren

Anyone who wants to use my wooden tower is welcome to it. It is a big, wooden beast that was constructed using something like 24,672 board feet of lumber 😯 It is a wonderful tower that has served me well….   Read more»

Have a great and safe trip, my friend. Hope you got someone to take over the site while you’re gone. If not, shut the puppy down, and let it ride. See ya when you get back.

I leave Saturday morning…Warren

Dude, you need a vacation. Step away from the welder… get ready for the river. Well, my Alfred E. Newman is done. It’s four inches longer than my gut says it should be, but the sim loves it. The fin…   Read more»

I’ve never brought it up with the rest of the executive committee, but I would assume that a number equal to 50% or more of the club’s current treasury for a single piece of launch equipment used primarily by no…   Read more»

If the dues were raised a little, could we afford one then?

I inquired on that tower years ago. IIRC it was $1800 back then. Really. Zowie.

THE Tower I drool over is here http://www.towerlauncher.com/. This thing will handle from 38mm to 300mm diameter birds, is 99″ long (8′), handles both three and four fin rockets and I believe he makes 4′ extensions for it. While I…   Read more»

well come on guys, as much as we are altitude nuts, lets breakdown and spend 100 bucks or 200 to get it right. Seems to me we need 10 feet of something which will accomodate 29-75mm rockets. I’ll toss in…   Read more»

The sad thing is that I very nearly used this tower for firewood a few years ago. It weighs something like 3 metric tons, is too long for the truck bed, and until you doused it with a gallon of…   Read more»

You DO know that Cavemen used to char the tips of their spears to harden the wood and make them slide into the animal easier… That tower is almost old enough to qualify. Heck, if we were ever trapped at…   Read more»

The “wooden beast” of a tower that I use has no special prep whatsoever…. other than a millenia of charring, it is just wood.JW

Waxing the tower guides does work and it eliminates any residue left on the rocket… providing everyone waxes theirs. This is something I did way back when and got good results… when the only choice for oil was from my…   Read more»

What about liquid teflon? Been a while since I thought about friction coefficients, but close to zilch. Personally, I’m converting my daughters air hockey table so that compressed air jets blown out of finely spaced holes in the tower struts…   Read more»