Neu 1415 1Y, to trim the wires, or not to trim

[donhuff]

You could probably mix up a thinner batch of the anodizing remover, so that you could put it in a larger plastic container and submerge a complete part in it. That would give the stripped part a more uniform looking finish. When I tried it, I just did it to see if it worked or not.

I use to be into high power model rockets, and I made my own motor hardware and propellant. I learned how to anodize so they looked better, and sometime you have to take it off cause it didn't turn out looking very good. Pisser though, after taking it off and sanding the tube to get it back smooth and shiny, they would not take on a good anodizing the second time.

[ray schrauwen]

Weird huh? I dabbled in rockets when I was younger. Even made some Carmel candy rocket propellent at one time.

Dad freaked out on me when I lit off a D Estes engine downstairs in the workroom vice... Smelled like rocket fuel for some time after the smoke cleared. Once I finally stopped laughing my arse hurt from the booting I got from dad.

[donhuff]

I played with the low power stuff a little as a kid, like most kids, but never got to serious about it. But in 2008 my soon to be daughter in law was working on a degree in aerospace engineering at Auburn, and as part of that, she had to be on the model rocketry team. And so it began! My son called one day and said that I needed to come watch a launch. Naturally, I gots to have one......or 20. My largest one was around 12 feet tall and 6 inches diameter, and the biggest motor I ever made and used in it was a medium sized N power, that's about 15,000 Newtons. A large D motor has 20.0 Newtons. That N motor was 4 inches in diameter and almost 4 feet long and weighed like 30-35 pounds. Talk about an expensive hobby. If I had bought that motor, it would cost $700.00 and that's just the reload. The hardware to put it in was another $500 and that's why I made my own. I could make the reload for about half that and the hardware for about a $100. And all that for maybe an 8 second burn time!