lakeroadster
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BT-60 Based, Rear Eject
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U.S.S. Sarah Connors... A Scratch Build Homage To The Shrox Version
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Design Revision 01: It's all about "The Dish"
The plan is to turn the dish on the wood lathe. The Upper Half as a separate piece from the Lower Half so they can be hollowed out (think wooden bowls). Then cut the dish in half and attach it to the BT-60 Body Tube.
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I love this design. It has been on my "ToDo" list for years.... Glad to see someone is tackling this project! 
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A small nitpick, which you may or may not care about: The dish should form a circle after being mounted on the rocket. Therefore a body tube-sized chunk should be cut out from the circular pieces before being applied. In your OR model, it appears as if each half is a perfect semicircle, which means that on the assembled model they form an oval profile rather than a circle.
lakeroadster
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The dish is integrated into the fuselage, not the other way around. Therefore it is actually is 2 separate half circles
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Preliminary CAD Package
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I like it, although it is kind of like Picasso meets Captain Kirk.I love this design. It has been on my "ToDo" list for years.... Glad to see someone is tackling this project!
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lakeroadster
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Turning The Disc
Used my wood lathe and some 1" pine stairway board scrap.
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Always gave me a Reliant feeling with the short probe as opposed to the long probe of the Estes Enterprise. Plywood construction and rear ejection will make Captain Kirk yell out loud after a successful launch.
That Sarah Conners sure has a lot of junk in the trunk and is nice and stubby. Take that Skynet!
Love those old school Shrox airplane designs.
That Sarah Conners sure has a lot of junk in the trunk and is nice and stubby. Take that Skynet!
Love those old school Shrox airplane designs.
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Very cool. I have a large 3D printer so I likely would have printed the disk. For me it would be the easier solution. I'm impressed with how yours came out.
lakeroadster
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Witchcraft I say! Witchcraft!
lakeroadster
When in doubt... build hell-for-stout!
Cutting the Disc
I pulled up the CAD drawing and made a drawing of the discs, see Post #6, then used my Radial Arm Saw and my Chop Saw to modify the Disc halves, then glued them together. I'll sand the body tube contour once it dries.
Think I'll have a Calzone for lunch... 
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Mmm, pita bread.
lakeroadster
When in doubt... build hell-for-stout!
High Fiber Pita Bread... guaranteed there will be some floaters tomorrow...
lakeroadster
When in doubt... build hell-for-stout!
Sanded The Disc To Fit The Body Tube
Spent some time out in the barn sanding the Disc to fit the C-80 Tube. Actually used the body tube with sandpaper wrapped around it. Worked pretty good.
The nasty looking cutouts at the back are clearance cuts for my Altimeter Two. I hogged out the material with my Dremel and will make some cover plates for those sections.
Now I'll go ahead and finish up the CAD Drawings. This one looks like it's a go.
P.S.: Kind of reminds me of the Bat Symbol... or The Bat Plane.
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