Sadly retiring upscaled Solar Sailor II

[billeblurzz]

Due to the way I display my rockets…spent motor casings epoxied onto cd discs…the base somehow got wet and the motor casing swelled/fused itself into mount!

 

[billeblurzz]

Sailer…I guess I can’t spell my own rockets right before my eyes! Skonk Wulf?

 

[JohnCoker]

Beautiful work!

 

[CoyoteNumber2]

A cardboard casing for a black powder motor? Can you unravel the casing from the inside out?

 

[K'Tesh]

A cardboard casing for a black powder motor? Can you unravel the casing from the inside out?

That's what I'd do... Knock out the nozzle... Crush the end of the motor tube with pliers, and unpeel it from the inside.

 

[NOLA_BAR]

Great looking model! Like suggested above. If it is a BP motor drill out the clay nozzle and peel away at the motor casing from the inside. I purchased a nose cone and body tubes a while back to upscale the Solar Sailer II, just never got to it.

 

[billeblurzz]

Yes I tried all those methods and it's so fused along the whole motor casing which is an E motor length the twisting involved was going to destroy the whole rear end of the rocket!

 

[NOLA_BAR]

I guess it depends on how much surgery you want to try. Use a rounded file to ground the motor tube to the centering rings and replace with a heavy wall 24mm motor tube? Looks like a BT-80?

 

[KenECoyote]

That's a beauty!

Personally I'd take a big drill bit to the back and then needle nose pliers to twist put the cardboard. Easy easy and I've done it several times since I used to launch on a frozen lake in the winter and my rockets would land in slush and puddles.

Related, I just had my second colonoscopy and everything was great! TMI?

 

[billeblurzz]

Last flight on an E20-7!

 

[billeblurzz]

 

[beeblebrox]

1. If it is an Estes E9 or E12 case in there, just grind out the nozzle and use high thrust 18mm motors in it... keep that in there as a motor adapter...
2. Cut thru the motor case (carefully) with a sawzall.. with long fine tooth metal blade.

 

[jqavins]

Knock out the nozzle. Ram a ½" or so dowel through so there's a clear path. Aim a blow drier through it, and leave it running for an hour or two.

Then try things like pulling it out unwinding from the inside. If the paper starts coming out damp, go back to the blow dryer.

-- OR --

Cut out the centering rings, file out their remnants, and install a whole new motor mount.

 

[OverTheTop]

Related, I just had my second colonoscopy and everything was great! TMI

I am sitting waiting for one right now. TMI?

 

[KenECoyote]

I am sitting waiting for one right now. TMI?

Not at all sailor!

(My apologies to the OP for the most awkward TRF thread hijack ever! )