Thursday, January 12, 2012

Scavenger! Build Part 1 Parts

As it turned out, the Quest 50mm tube was a very close fit to the plastic flute nose cone. I ordered some tubing from Quest, but like the nose cone it sat in my spare parts box - until now!

This is going to be a real spare parts build. I'm not buying any new parts, no order will be made.
Everything will come from materials already on hand.

The plastic flute has been shaped into a nose cone.

The engine hook was bent from the flat spring steel ripped from a discarded windshield wiper.
The centering rings were cut from frame mat material. More on that in upcoming posts.
The engine block is a 1/4" length cut from a expended D engine.
The engine mount tube is 5" of BT50H (thick walled BT-50) found in the spare parts box.
I haven't decided on a fin design yet, it'll probably be through the wall construction.

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