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That was a nice rocket. Did you ever get to put up that 5" three break from PGI?

 

Here's a 1lb BP motor with a 4" shell of shells:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDeeIVpEZKs

 

Sorry for the bad video, my friend was taping from farther away with my camera and I was using his phone, well my camera decided to go to sleep on him right after the fuse lit, and he couldn't figure out how to wake it up in time, so we only have the phone video. I think I blew some of the red stars blind (old and not primed well enough) and the motor needed a bit less delay. Any other comments/suggestions are welcome.

 

 

WB

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No unfortunately the 3 break never flew . It would have, the rocket performed perfect as did the other rockets I took home. I was just turned off by something that happened and broke them down and fired them at home . The 3 break I gave back to Tom . I have all the components to make one maybe I can get something together before the next shoot.
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Here is something I threw together earlier today. Just a small 2 ounce rocket with 5 Chrysanthemum 8 Stars in a small dump header with some FFg to help it all along. At least I'm starting to make these little rockets more consistently. This is one of three I made and all rockets (minus headings and sticks) weighted in at 13 grams. Went a little deep into the delay when I was drilling through the clay so it popped alittle early but I think it was good. Once I get rid of some of these 3/8" ID tubes I want to move up to 4 ounce.

 

Don't mind the first 5 seconds (opening logo) part. It's the name of my blog.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZsyrT0_Mqg

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No unfortunately the 3 break never flew . It would have, the rocket performed perfect as did the other rockets I took home. I was just turned off by something that happened and broke them down and fired them at home . The 3 break I gave back to Tom . I have all the components to make one maybe I can get something together before the next shoot.

 

Firebird, that is way too bad. Was it a "Red Shirt" thing?

 

Here is a video of some fun Sunday night "Just gotta light something" rockets. The green one surprised me a lot. It was just old falling leaves comp that looked horrible.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXJMrmSZDQU

 

 

-dag

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It was a safety thing and a rules change thing . Unimportant now but at the time raised my hair a bit. I think for us that are doing big rockets at these shoots we may need to really think about some self restraint. I hate to say that but we are just really starting to push things a little far maybe. I know when I shot those two 12's at PGI that started a crap storm and I am hoping we don't all suffer for it. Not that anything went wrong it was just that safety freeked. I think if we don't limit ourself they will impose rules on us that may really limit us. So with that all said no more 12 inch shells on rockets I think 10 is going to be the biggest I will shoot at a club event. With one minor exception GBR Rocket with the 16 But I still think that will be done on my own private time. i am looking forward to Multi's on rockets I think they will fly better then big balls . My 6# has already shown it's self to lift upwards of 18 pounds and it can toss 15 way the heck up there so I think with the less drag and adding a nice nose cone to it I may see some high flights
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Gotta love the GBR! the IOWA club is OK with the GBR (or they were in August) so if you end needing a place to launch it... ;)

 

-dag

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A few of us had some fun last night at Moapa. Here are three rockets I made, all 1 pound 60/30/10 BP and nozzle, made on the Universal Tooling. The first one had 8% of the charcoal replaced with aluminum flake for a nice tail, and a 3 inch ball header with orange and blue stars that don't photograph well on my Flip. The second one should have been a ring report, but it must have blown the end out and shot the inserts forward in a group. The third, well I was quite happy with that one.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4Jo49t4ZWc&feature=youtu.be

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Heres a few of my nye rockets..nowt special. 75/15/10 with 10% ti sponge in the delay. The shells would`ve broken a lot better if i`d used a flash booster to offset the crappy string i spiked them with :)

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATS7j_aPH2k

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zChodh_RgGM

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM0OhG_G_EE

 

Happy New Year!!

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Looked great Dag.
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I know, I have even said it myself time after time that endburners are NOT for lifting shells.

 

I was wrong...

 

Here is my video from last night of a 3/4" endburner lifting a 3" canister shell to a height where the difference between the visual break and sound takes 1.4 seconds or 1575'. The break is SO far away that the fireflies cant even be seen on camera.

 

Whoda-thunk?

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1NgsMA_ke4

 

 

-dag

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Here is another endburner, this one makes it too 3100' up in the sky and just goes out of frame, you can see the report go off in the middle top of the frame, just a few pixels light up, but it is there. The frame by frame time between flash and report was 2.51 seconds or 3100'.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KL0VjCFWyk

 

 

-dag

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A rondelle is more of a spiral of salutes going off in order than a ring of salutes. The one below has 5 inserts, which isn't enough IMO, but I was building with a friend.

 

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