right now, im getting the fins on, i want to re-enforce with carbon strips that are epoxied to the fin and the body tube(fillet re-enforced) do I need to use a high temp epoxy to do this?
I have ran sims on this rocket and it can produce almost mach 1.5. I am making fins out of 3/16 birch ply (4 of them)is this idea a semi sound idea?
will west systems epoxy work? (i used to using the hobby epoxy 30min slow cure)?
should i CF sleeve the whole thing? or is filled and finished phenolic good enough for this project?
also whats the story with trackers? i see all the cool guys with them, but I am not as cool as they are, but do they borrow stuff from fellow members? or does someone usually has a radio and most people just buy transmitters? im completly confused on once my rocket could possibly make 10K how im going to find it?
Personally I would use G10 for the fin cores and slot them into the airframe, then run 1 or more layers of glass or carbon tip to tip across the entire fin. I've done some spectacular shreds on Machbusters I've built with lesser construction techniques.
Warren
well i layed down some fiber and some 20 min epoxy on the fins that should hold them well. aerosleeving is too much weight we are going for records here lol (my own personal record)
i think it will hold G10 is nice though, but i had some 3/16 birch hanging around so i used that ans some fiber enforcement honey comb is really fun too!
i wanted to make a 4 fin min dia. though mostly everyone has a 3 fin, 98% of my rockets are 3 fin so i opted for 4 this time, I really kinda want to make this rocket be able to do the WARP-9 egg loft
Sutter...wood is for BDR's...BIG DUMB ROCKETS. why do you think Ferrari's use light strong high quality materials? because they're sports cars. You're building a sports car of a rocket, you don't want to have steel wheels on that beast do ya? 😆
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