joeman wrote:I have been having no luck getting the tube off the mandrel. [emoji853].

That sucks d00d. Mandrel misery is a terrible thing.

Great work Joe. I'm very keen to see you final weights for a given slice of airframe.

I'm thinking about moving to WA just for the launch day buffet. Don't get anything like that in NSW! It certainly looks inviting We need our own Lamington Lady. Are you offering to take on that role, Aquaman? :wink: The Lamington Lady was unable to come to our launch this past weekend. Safe to say ...

I'm thinking about moving to WA just for the launch day buffet. Don't get anything like that in NSW! Great photos by the way. How big is that upsized Fat Boy? Would love to build one of those. Thanks Aquaman, The cheese board comes between morning tea and the sausage sizzle we have for lunch. Safe ...

Hi all, It's been some time since I've posted some launch day photos. Allow me to remedy that. Here are some pics from our WARS Grass Valley Launch on 18 May as well as a link to an album with more photos. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/GFuy5_kqzQY8xHPIgsgHTmy7RvbNspQDE0JL9e1skicz6ADGF86tBB-iFUZ7...

We had a guy pitch up to the first WARS launch of the season earlier in the year who had some interesting info. Apparently long before WARS, Tripoli WA, or PARC there was Tripoli Perth. They could never get their hands on anything larger than G class solids. So they started looking into hybrids and ...

You people obviously don't do enough sanding, do you :P . +100 Nope, I do plenty of sanding and if I'm being frank I'm quite good at it. And sure, it's second on my list to painting but I don't f up sanding whereas I find painting is effectively a roll of the dice. This is especially the case now t...

+2. Painting is the worst part of rocketry imo.

Don't trust the postage calculator on their website. It's likely to be incorrect if you are buying carbon that comes on a roll. I received my first order from them last week. The website said $64 international postage. Actual cost was $105. (all USD) When it comes to ordering CF fabric that comes i...

stdulek wrote:Thanks All. Will be back at a future Thunda to try to break some other records

EXCELLENT! FYI I've updated the AMRS Records page with your flights. It's great to see all the single stage HPR records have been claimed!

https://rocketry.org.au/education/records/

Congratulations to Blake, Scoop, and Black Sky! This is incredibly exciting news! As most are aware Woomera is now Defense only and as a result there is currently no commercial/civilian accessible launch capability in Australia. Kudos to EVERYONE who helped make this happen!

[quote="joeman"I use LinuxCNC on an old server with a parallel port.[/quote] I can't put to words how much I enjoy the above sentence Joe. You're leveraging a parallel port in 2019!?!?! That's just plain awesome. https://www.wineberserkers.com/forum/images/smilies/champagne.gif You're doin...

I'd love to know more about the ablative layer of cork on their fins though.

A LOT of money sunk into this.... amateur rocketry persons porn really. You're not kidding! It definitely brought Nammo into focus, I was unaware of them beforehand. They're HUGE and have their hands in all sorts of things. For instance. They designed the .338 Lapua Magnum round. They supply Rocket...