Monday, January 14, 2019

OR Spaced Needle Build, Part 1 Parts

I've never put together a skinny rocket.
Estes has their Fletcher, Skinny Mini, Mean Machine and Mini Mean machine.
The problem with the Skinny Mini and Mini Mean Machine is the thin wall BT-20 tubing. it is prone to buckling.
This one will be made with the new (uh, oh - plug coming) Odd'l Rockets heavy wall BT-20 tubes.



Not much to this one. It's simply a long, minimum diameter model. The parachute isn't shown, it'll be a 12" Odd'l chute.

Parts of interest:
Odd'l Rockets heavy walled BT-20H
BT-20 sized brown coupler
Apogee plastic nose cone.

The Apogee nose cones have a wide shoulder and fit the new thicker wall tube very well.

BT-20H tubes are available only from jonrocket.com!

2 comments:

  1. So I take it from the post title that this is going to be an Odd'l Rockets kit?
    And don't forget the Estes Big Yank and Cobra 1500 needle rockets. Cheers.

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    1. Hi BAR,
      Nope, probably not an Odd'l kit. You are right, there were more tall, skinny rockets!

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