Kinda Quiet in here................
Im rebuilding Hair of the Dog if anybody cares. 🙂
Its shorter now, um, got a hair cut. 😆
Will still hold an L730 though.
Dont want to spend much money right now.
So I using the materials I have laying aroud, to repair Damaged rockets I already have. Not as fun as new ones, but hey. 🙄
Will try to clear the shelves of parts and pieces and refill them with flayable rockets. 8)
I do the same thing.
I have a four inch. A combination of two rockets, about 1/2
done.
All the parts laying on the desk for 2X Nebulon Warrior.
I am 1/4 done with a 8" X 14' Thor-x.
I also got My warming plate today to start making sugar motors.
I have $100.00 to spend w/Giant Leap. Just deciding what
reloads I want. Two J500s or a few of another ones. Not sure.
I am also trying to decide what I want to fly the 6th. It will Be
My first time at the Atlas site. Hope the weather holds. Will
stick with J and below.
I have plenty to keep My rocket juices flowing.
Fly 'em, fix 'em and fly 'em again. If only it were that easy.
In case people haven't seen the build thread on TRP ( http://www.rocketryplanet.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2409 ) and want something to fill the void,
here is what I've been working on recently, a new 38mm av-bay. It will have 2 Parrots, a Beeline transmitter, and 2 deployment batteries. It's under 3 inches long and pretty light:
The Kevlar cord going through the middle is a single piece that goes all the way through. The "H" structure between the two circular bulkheads is made of 0.030" G10 with a layer of FG going from bulkhead to bulkhead. This is how much it's assembled so far, with 1 Parrot wired up and 1 of the 2 deployment batteries installed.
The way it goes together is: there is a coupler that is glued into the main chute airframe tube. The av-bay has a small bulkhead and a large bulkhead. The av-bay gets inserted into the main chute tube, small end first, and then the large bulkhead seats against the forward edge of the coupler. That leaves the small bulkhead sticking out a bit from the back of the coupler. The preload ring fits over the end and pulls the av-bay against the forward stops using 5 screws. Those 5 screws are also connected to the deployment terminals on the inside via wires soldered to the nuts, so the ejection charges are just connected by wrapping them under the screw heads before final tightening.
Here is the preload ring:
I decided to make this a 2-Parrot av-bay to make it easier to keep symmetric and so that I could put 70G and 250G versions in the same rocket and see what the real G limit is for the 70g version. A test flight in a Blue Ninja went pretty well tonight, except for the main charge blowing out the airframe tube. I'll rebuild the Blue Ninja, and also fly this in my Thunderbolt38 and some high-performance carbon fiber 38mm rockets that are still on the drawing board.
Very kool design - not sure I have the nimble fingers to make something like that work.
Thanks, Joe. We'll see if I can get my transmitter working properly this time.