Warren B. Musselman

Carbon is expensive, but the price has dropped substantially over the last 6 months or so as production has ramped up. You can thank Boeing, Airbus and the Joint Strike Fighter for the price increases...

What makes a material G10, G11 or G12 or their corresponding fire ratings of FR4 FR5, etc. is the epoxy that forms the substrate and the way they are manufactured. It has to do with fire rating so the...

Well don't keep us in suspense - What are the right tools for drilling clean holes in filament wound fiberglass? Warren

HM makes two grades of 98mm tubing. The thin wall stuff you have is generally assumed to be for motor mount tubes. There is a heavier wall product meant for high performance airframes. I've got a piec...

From a purely structural engineering perspective, convolute wound tubing is considerably stronger than filament wound. The reason for this is that most of the load in convolute wound tubing is carried...

This thread is opened for the purpose of proposing new Agenda items for the club annual meeting. As mentioned in another thread, aside from the normal departmental reports that happen at each semi-ann...

I just got off the phone with Joe. The agenda will be pretty much identical to last years agenda. Aside from the various reports by the President, Treasurer, Membership, Volunteer, Web, Equipment, and...

I've already seen a proposed agenda for the annual meeting. I will prevail on Joe to send me a copy and let me publish it for discussion. Warren

I have the case and nozzle for the K350 (and a K350 reload). I'd certainly be willing to loan that out under the normal conditions. Warren

Looks like the avatars are working fine now. As far as motor retention, PML makes a 3 point motor retainer that will fit that bird, but you need to install the threaded inserts before you install the ...

Conway voiced such persuasive arguments, I don't think it bears any further discussion. A Vendor Forum has been created. Have at it folks. Warren

I couldn't tell you Troy. Out of a current 568 registered users, probably 120 or thereabout only logged in once or a couple times at most. How many of them created additional account(s) I can't really...

That's the opposite of what I read in the orange book and the discussions on the TRA forum some months back - it seems to clearly say that they have the right to search your "premises" with no specifi...

..and while this topic is wandering awful far into political terrain and Off Topic from motor storage... I would venture to say that what you're talking about is so far in violation of the Constitutio...

So the way I see it IF you want to legal with storage in the state of CO, you need a LEUP and a Colorado Type I, II, and III licenses in order to possess, use, transport and store APCP rocket motors. ...