Bruiser
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On the tails of finishing my Mini Nike X (needs the streamer added) I have decided to move on to another rocket because I am stuck at home. Both Elaine and I have tested positive for Covid so we have to quarantine. I rummaged thru my stack of kits and this one seems like I have what I need to build it including mods
So this is almost 39 inches tall, has a really long plastic nose cone, a plastic fin can and one-piece plastic fins. Estes states it weighs 9.2 ounces and flies to 787 feet on a E9-6. I simmed it up in OR and even with reloads for a 24/40 case performance isn't too great.
I think that I am going to modify it to use 29mm motors. The design has a 17.75 motor mount/stuffer tube that is held in place with two centering ring molded into the plastic fin can and a forward plastic centering ring in the coupler that joins the two 11.625 inch body tubes together. I would need to open up the molded rings in the fin can and I would not use the plastic forward ring, The motor mount tube I would use would be 8 inches long so it will not reach the tube coupler. I would just cut a new fwd centering ring from 1/8th inch ply.
I tried googling to find other builds and found just a few write ups (mostly reviews) so let me ask if anyone else has modded this kit to use 29mm motors?
Thanks for reading,
-Bob
So this is almost 39 inches tall, has a really long plastic nose cone, a plastic fin can and one-piece plastic fins. Estes states it weighs 9.2 ounces and flies to 787 feet on a E9-6. I simmed it up in OR and even with reloads for a 24/40 case performance isn't too great.
I think that I am going to modify it to use 29mm motors. The design has a 17.75 motor mount/stuffer tube that is held in place with two centering ring molded into the plastic fin can and a forward plastic centering ring in the coupler that joins the two 11.625 inch body tubes together. I would need to open up the molded rings in the fin can and I would not use the plastic forward ring, The motor mount tube I would use would be 8 inches long so it will not reach the tube coupler. I would just cut a new fwd centering ring from 1/8th inch ply.
I tried googling to find other builds and found just a few write ups (mostly reviews) so let me ask if anyone else has modded this kit to use 29mm motors?
Thanks for reading,
-Bob