Warren B. Musselman

For 29mm and 38mm birds, I have long used "wire" eye bolts or screws. What I do is weld the loop closed with my little tiny 125A wire-feed welder. Takes 5 seconds to do the weld, and 2 hours to clear ...

Since I need an 98mm N load for my 5" bird, I might just have to go take a stroll around the North Site and see if I can find this for you James... 😯

I'm impressed. I've molded a fair number of things - a motorcycle fender from carbon fiber for a buddy, a part for another guys' motoglider kit that he damaged, a replacement piece for a carbon-fiber ...

Seems I've been posting and I also replied to your last PM... I'm alive and well and waiting for some machining to be done. Soon Scott, soon....

Very nice David! "Grom" huh? I'm currently having a piece of 4" airframe turned down in three steps to accomodate 1, 2 and 3 layers of tip to tip without increasing diameter. It is slated to fly at B...

I'm going to have to pick some Partall up. I typically fill t-nut threads with vaseline.

OK... well if you have the right tool for the job. Hope we have a Mile High Mayhem for you to come to Doug. Fire ban in April ain't a good sign.

4" 15oz sock? Woah...I'd seriously consider that M or N-fodder on an Estes paper tube even. Realistically speaking, wetting out carbon is such a pain compared to glass. Very hard to see unless you ha...

Almost looks like a LEGG's egg... but bigger. Guaranteed to work, vaseline.

I learned the hard way - keep it simple until you're comfortable. I'll second the motion on Perfectflight altimeters, but also add a plug for Missileworks' RRC2-mini - I have 3 of them. Very reliable ...

I lay up all the tip to tip for a given layer at once - sometimes 2 or 3 layers on each even now that I've got the procedure dialed in. Picture a 3FNC bird - number the fins 1, 2, and 3. I'll lay up o...

Very nicely done. I never thought of using EMT as a mandrel. I've always used paper or phenolic tubing except for the 38mm mandrel I had one of my machinist buddies make from schedule 80 aluminum pipe...

Think of it as meaning "The standard by which all others are judged..." It was a compliment...

Woah!

Like I said, I think our club contests should be open to any commercial altimeter currently in production or manufactured within the last 12 years say. If there are issues with a particular altimeter,...