Update 6/30/2024: Here is the link to the most current STL files. These are advanced copies and I will publish the official files on my Printables page once I am happy with the fit and configuration.
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Since the release of the Nike Smoke by Estes this week, I've seen a lot of chatter including Facebook. This rocket design has become a new favorite of mine, and while I have nothing against Estes, I like building rockets from scratch, and since I only have a 3D printer and haven't yet dove into castings and forms for FG/CF, this is what I know.
In a FB discussion, I was chatting with another about not being able to find the Nike NC. Building the one for my Nike Smoke Extreme wasn't hard but it's time-consuming. No 3-in Nike Nosecones could be easily found, so I decided to just jump in and model it. That is what this thread is for. I have been modeling for a long time, and only just started 3D printing last year. I feel like I'm still a beginner though I have spent a king's ransom on filament.
I pulled the openrocket sim up for the Nike Smoke Extreme and scaled the nosecone up by ~193%. This is gonna be beastly. Here is the rough, first draft of that:
With the shoulder, it's going to be 569mm tall. That's a lot of plastic!
I will have to come up with a way to split this. I have some designs that I have done before that should work fine. My concern is that I wanted to mount the AVbay in the nosecone as well, so that's just more plastic. It is very preliminary, but I'm gonna do it. I might need to put a 54mm MMT just so I can get this thing over 1000 feet. That's tomorrow's problem.
More to come...
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Since the release of the Nike Smoke by Estes this week, I've seen a lot of chatter including Facebook. This rocket design has become a new favorite of mine, and while I have nothing against Estes, I like building rockets from scratch, and since I only have a 3D printer and haven't yet dove into castings and forms for FG/CF, this is what I know.
In a FB discussion, I was chatting with another about not being able to find the Nike NC. Building the one for my Nike Smoke Extreme wasn't hard but it's time-consuming. No 3-in Nike Nosecones could be easily found, so I decided to just jump in and model it. That is what this thread is for. I have been modeling for a long time, and only just started 3D printing last year. I feel like I'm still a beginner though I have spent a king's ransom on filament.
I pulled the openrocket sim up for the Nike Smoke Extreme and scaled the nosecone up by ~193%. This is gonna be beastly. Here is the rough, first draft of that:
With the shoulder, it's going to be 569mm tall. That's a lot of plastic!
I will have to come up with a way to split this. I have some designs that I have done before that should work fine. My concern is that I wanted to mount the AVbay in the nosecone as well, so that's just more plastic. It is very preliminary, but I'm gonna do it. I might need to put a 54mm MMT just so I can get this thing over 1000 feet. That's tomorrow's problem.
More to come...
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