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Cool project, I used to build model rockets when I was growing up. I wonder if they still even sell those kits anymore since they could be considered "dangerous".

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>If you’ve ever built a model rocket, you’ll know there’s not a whole lot to them. Essentially it’s a cardboard tube, a plastic nosecone, some fins, and a little clip that will keep it riding the launch rail as it accelerates off the pad. Extra points awarded if you add in a parachute, but strictly speaking, even that’s a luxury. Stick an Estes motor in that thing and send it.

Cool project, I used to build model rockets when I was growing up. I wonder if they still even sell those kits anymore since they could be considered "dangerous". Archive: https://archive.today/A0sei From the post: >>If you’ve ever built a model rocket, you’ll know there’s not a whole lot to them. Essentially it’s a cardboard tube, a plastic nosecone, some fins, and a little clip that will keep it riding the launch rail as it accelerates off the pad. Extra points awarded if you add in a parachute, but strictly speaking, even that’s a luxury. Stick an Estes motor in that thing and send it.

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I built about a dozen Estes rockets when I was a kid. All balsa fins, tubes, spray painted in multiple colors. From 3 stage "A" engine models, others with B, C or D engines up to Big Bertha. Built a launch pad in HS shop class. Had a blast. Some may still be stuck high up in the oldest trees in the neighborhood.

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Hah yeah, Most of the ones I built were Estes but I did build a few "from scratch". Found instructions on how to do it with this "cardboard paper" that was adhesive and large paper pieces over a wood dowel to make the body, then glued together and shaved down cork for the nosecone and balsa for the fins. I think it was a c6-5 engine if I remember.. Its been a long time.

I never got to fire off anything larger than a D engine though, that was still fun.