Mah Rokkit! (now with video!)
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Topic: Mah Rokkit! (now with video!)
Posted By: tallen702
Subject: Mah Rokkit! (now with video!)
Date Posted: 03 January 2010 at 12:57am
finished it today. Stands at 3' (that's approx 1 meter to you pinkos up north). If the wind dies down enough tomorrow I'm gonna launch it. Edit: Launched on Monday. Took video, forgot to follow the rocket up with the camera for a moment. I'll take better footage when I launch again tomorrow. Anyway, here's what I got: ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
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Posted By: mbro
Date Posted: 03 January 2010 at 12:58am
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I'm surprised you didn't design it after something soviet made. ------------- 
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Posted By: Darur
Date Posted: 03 January 2010 at 12:59am
Mrs. Tallen must be very pleased  ------------- Real Men play Tuba [IMG]http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/1859/newsmall6xz.jpg"> PH33R TEH 1337 Dwarf! http://www.tippmann.com/forum/wwf77a/log_off_user.asp" rel="nofollow - DONT CLICK ME!!1 |
Posted By: rednekk98
Date Posted: 03 January 2010 at 1:05am
| The best thing to do is get the cheap kits with your buddys and play dodge-rocket from about 300 yards.... |
Posted By: bravecoward
Date Posted: 03 January 2010 at 1:08am
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...not what i was expecting. damn
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Posted By: The Guy
Date Posted: 03 January 2010 at 1:10am
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Well someone got a little paranoid after playing Modern Warfare 2 ------------- http://www.anomationanodizing.com - My Site 
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Posted By: High Voltage
Date Posted: 03 January 2010 at 1:21am
Suck it, tallen. It's over 6' tall. ------------- 
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Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 03 January 2010 at 1:36am
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HV, is that 2 Estes Amazon rockets put together? Sure looks like it. ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: Eville
Date Posted: 03 January 2010 at 1:43am
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I do believe HV's is the Mean Machine. Tallen, what does yours say? ------------- 
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Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 03 January 2010 at 1:50am
AMAZON, hence my question to HV. It seems to be similar fin, nose cone, and body construction. ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Eville wrote:Posted By: High Voltage
Date Posted: 03 January 2010 at 2:23am
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http://www.estesrockets.com/store/rockets/001295-mean-machinetm.html - Estes Mean Machine I've had it for years, so my kit was older than the one on their site. This one doesn't break down into smaller sections, or fit E engines I think. I had one exactly like yours, tallen, but I broke a fin one day when the chute failed to open completely. -------------
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Posted By: Eville
Date Posted: 03 January 2010 at 2:37am
I still have my old Estes Patriot from 10+years ago around here somewhere. Only thing it needs is a new nose cone. My parachute chord snapped on its last flight so the rest of the rocket just free-fell. Held up fine other than that. Girth>length -------------
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Posted By: Tolgak
Date Posted: 03 January 2010 at 7:53am
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I used to make rockets from scratch with my dad. We would put in windows and put in a payload of either a lizard or a random large bug. I should get back into it, rockets are fun.
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Posted By: nickman98
Date Posted: 03 January 2010 at 8:13am
| i made a few when i was younger. quite fun and we had a big lake that once frozen was perfect for launching off of. i liked my 1000ft rocket till it melted its chute and smashed to peices on the ice...opps. |
Posted By: DeTrevni
Date Posted: 03 January 2010 at 11:11am
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I used to be a big "rocketeer" as well. My neighbor was also a science geek, so he was member of an actual club. I'd go to launches where the used those big reusable engines. Fun to watch. I remember one homemade rocket's chute failed to open. Thing was, this rocket was like 12' tall and 8" in diameter. It suffered a bit more damage than a cracked nose cone. I remember the tracker yelling at everyone to run. :) ------------- Evil Elvis: "Detrevni is definally like a hillbilly hippy from hell" 
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Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 03 January 2010 at 11:31am
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I built a rocket once. I glued the nose cone on and inserted a small bag of black powder.
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Posted By: GI JOES SON
Date Posted: 03 January 2010 at 11:59am
recreating the challenger, eh? |
Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 03 January 2010 at 1:40pm
Sort of. I was a lot younger so I didn't understand that it would need to be compressed for a satisfying explosion so all I got was a little "poof" and a broken rocket. ------------- ? |
Posted By: WGP guy2
Date Posted: 03 January 2010 at 2:33pm
Mah Rokkit (pending getting one of the internships I applied for) |
Posted By: carl_the_sniper
Date Posted: 03 January 2010 at 2:53pm
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I have built and launched rockets but have never recovered one.
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Posted By: SSOK
Date Posted: 03 January 2010 at 6:23pm
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I miss the days where I used to launch rockets.
There was never anything more dissappointing than making a nice rocket you really care about, and never finding it again. ------------- 
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Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 03 January 2010 at 6:30pm
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No joke, where I grew up (Whitehorse, Yukon) no store sells model rocket engines. They are impossible to find, because years ago a teacher was kidnapped and the students that did it used model rocket engines to build pipe bombs (or at least try to, as she didn't die)
But yeah, could never buy them, I've only used a rocket once in grade 10 science. |
Posted By: Benjichang
Date Posted: 03 January 2010 at 6:57pm
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Man, I used to be all about model rocketry.
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Posted By: SSOK
Date Posted: 03 January 2010 at 7:10pm
Linky? -------------
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Posted By: rednekk98
Date Posted: 04 January 2010 at 12:13pm
| We used to just tape a shishkabob stick to a C engine for a bottle-rocket substitute, god those things are fast when they aren't pushing a rocket. We tried various home-made rockets as well, but the fins had a tendancy to break off and the rocket would go stupid. I think the black-powder football cannon was our most entertaining attempted at explosive recreation. |
Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 04 January 2010 at 12:43pm
In an effort to keep myself off any ATF watch lists, I'll refrain from mentioning some of our own experiments.  ------------- ? |
Posted By: agentwhale007
Date Posted: 04 January 2010 at 12:52pm
Ditto. I've still got my "Retarded Mosquito around here somewhere. I made a modified Estes Mosquito to hold a E9-4 motor. I was too afraid to launch it. |
Posted By: Eville
Date Posted: 04 January 2010 at 12:54pm
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I bored out a hole in the back of one of my pinewood derby cars. I think the c-6 that I put in it was a bit excessive because it only went about 10 feet before going out of control.
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Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 04 January 2010 at 5:23pm
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Well, I launched today with a C6-5 Estes engine in my Amazon. I dropped the launch rod by 10* in an effort to counter the 10-13mph winds we had today and I think I could have gotten away with 3-5* instead. Due to the flatter trajectory and wind, I only got an altitude of 400' but the parachute deployed properly and the whole thing came back to earth unscathed, so I feel rather accomplished. I took video, but it's kinda sucky since I forgot to follow the rocket up with the camera as well as my eyes. I'll take more footage at my next launch to post here. ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: High Voltage
Date Posted: 04 January 2010 at 5:29pm
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Congrats on the successful launch and recovery.
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Posted By: carl_the_sniper
Date Posted: 04 January 2010 at 5:32pm
I always bought the tiny, ultra high flying kits and pit in the biggest engine that fit. I never expected to get one back and thus was never disappointed when they didn't. ------------- <just say no to unnecessarily sexualized sigs> |
Posted By: DeTrevni
Date Posted: 04 January 2010 at 8:01pm
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Once I taped some fins and a nose cone to a motor. Worth it.
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Posted By: Evil Elvis
Date Posted: 04 January 2010 at 9:26pm
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I want to Buy like 3 kits and build a Paintball SCUD Missile and use it to Nuke EMR's castle. get some cardboard tubing and have way to open a Trap door and rain paint from above. ------------- 
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Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 06 January 2010 at 2:22pm
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bump for video!
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Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 06 January 2010 at 2:34pm
Just find one where it deploys a parachute and replace it with black powder/ paint, then shoot it straight at them :) |
Posted By: Benjichang
Date Posted: 06 January 2010 at 3:05pm
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Tallen, nice, and congrats.
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Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 06 January 2010 at 8:23pm
Oh, what do we have here? Could it be a nice 2-stage rocket? Why, I think it is!
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Posted By: Eville
Date Posted: 06 January 2010 at 8:25pm
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Nothing like robotrippin and model rocketry.
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Posted By: pntbl freak
Date Posted: 06 January 2010 at 10:10pm
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Every rocket I've ever build and launched....I either lost it or took a very long time to find it...
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Posted By: High Voltage
Date Posted: 06 January 2010 at 10:58pm
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Damn you, tallen. You're making me want to go launch a rocket soon. Maybe I'll get out tomorrow before work and fly a couple of mine in the snow.
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Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 07 January 2010 at 6:02pm
I went out again! Did you? Lost my mongoose rocket which I launched after this one. It drifted about 1/3 of a mile after parachute deployment and landed either in some deep, deep brush, or in the Potomac. ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: High Voltage
Date Posted: 08 January 2010 at 2:49am
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Had there been more than a light dusting I would have been out. Wouldn't count on braving the ridiculously cold air either. I'll wait til it tops freezing outside, -------------
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