dagabu Posted December 3, 2011 Posted December 3, 2011 Good to see you, a lot better attitudes over here. -dag
WonderBoy Posted December 3, 2011 Posted December 3, 2011 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
firebird Posted December 4, 2011 Posted December 4, 2011 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.
JFeve81 Posted December 4, 2011 Posted December 4, 2011 (edited) 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 Edited December 4, 2011 by JFeve81
cojonesm Posted December 12, 2011 Posted December 12, 2011 (edited) 14mm whistle rocket with 3'' slowgold and some leftover blue cut stars. http://www.pyrobin.c...%203%20inch.mp4 http://www.dpcforum....51984_thumb.jpg Edited December 12, 2011 by cojonesm
dagabu Posted December 13, 2011 Posted December 13, 2011 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
firebird Posted December 13, 2011 Posted December 13, 2011 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
dagabu Posted December 13, 2011 Posted December 13, 2011 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
Peret Posted December 29, 2011 Posted December 29, 2011 (edited) 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 Edited December 29, 2011 by Peret
californiapyro Posted December 29, 2011 Posted December 29, 2011 i was there with peret having fun, out of my 7 rockets 3 didnt work as planned. here are 3 that worked, i will be uploading a MUCH bigger rocket shortly. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNR6Ap2fTvQ
Col Posted January 1, 2012 Posted January 1, 2012 (edited) 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!! Edited January 1, 2012 by Col
dagabu Posted April 2, 2012 Posted April 2, 2012 Here is my 1# whistle rocket with a 3" shell with torbillions and flitter comets. Enjoy! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn9TuzMcr80 -dag
dagabu Posted April 2, 2012 Posted April 2, 2012 (edited) An end burner using whistle fuel. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loXCHv5Dq-s&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active Other rockets from Saturday. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzQwaKfC-os&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active -dag Edited April 2, 2012 by dagabu
dagabu Posted April 22, 2012 Posted April 22, 2012 (edited) 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 Edited April 22, 2012 by dagabu
dagabu Posted April 22, 2012 Posted April 22, 2012 Well, sometimes you have to see just how long you can get a rocket to stay in the air. How about a whopping 30 seconds of flight time? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ul0dhjdITqI -dag
Mumbles Posted April 22, 2012 Posted April 22, 2012 Are those made using whistle end burners, or whistle boosted BP?
dagabu Posted April 22, 2012 Posted April 22, 2012 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
dagabu Posted April 23, 2012 Posted April 23, 2012 Getting bored yet? Here is a standard willow shell on top of a 1# whistle rocket. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy3hLDGaRGU -dag
dagabu Posted April 23, 2012 Posted April 23, 2012 (edited) #1 whistle strobe rocket. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV1SDLi795Y -dag Edited April 23, 2012 by dagabu
dagabu Posted April 23, 2012 Posted April 23, 2012 Here is my latest Rondelle shell, no bottom shot I am sorry to say but it does have four white stars in the shell. I wanted to try the new spiking string I got and made the shell without booster, pretty tight group sadly but the break was round. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnFcmb4qeKI -dag
dagabu Posted April 23, 2012 Posted April 23, 2012 (edited) Are those made using whistle end burners, or whistle boosted BP? Straight whistle, Benny with red iron and 1% phlegm. How about a red rocket? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4ZuSnhW-uw -dag Edited April 23, 2012 by dagabu
Mumbles Posted April 23, 2012 Posted April 23, 2012 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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