FSI parts at Quest!
Hello All,
I was just buying some parts on Quest's website when I came across an FSI part--a 21 mm motor mount tube (and also 24 mm and 29 mm motor mount tubes), see: http://www.questaerospace.com/Motor...06_3447168.aspx . They also have 21 mm tubing centering rings for their 25 mm, 30 mm, 35 mm, 40 mm, and 50 mm body tubes (see: http://www.questaerospace.com/Cente...06_3447169.aspx ). Plus, they're again selling their long 13 mm motor-to-18 mm tubing adapter mount (see: http://www.questaerospace.com/index...=3447168&Page=2 ). These are certainly interesting developments... |
sorry to disappoint you but those are parts for their 20mm D5-x motors they used to import from China. 21 mm is the outside diameter of the motor tube.
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They've had those parts for some time. on a positive note I recently ordered some parts from them and the body tubes the sent were like the old MPC ones. Very nice! They also have a new blow molded 30mm nose cone with attachment loop.
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Let us know what you think of them when they arrive. I ordered 20 mm 15 mm and 30 mm and was very impressed with the quality
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Quest's parts can be used to make a 35 mm/20 mm Nike-Tomahawk (see: http://www.google.com/search?q=nike...1.0.UfRO4MHj8oA [they have a non-scale 35 mm/20 mm transition, but a scale one would be easy to make with a card stock cone and internal tubing and rings]). For a scale Nike-ASP, Nike-Cajun, or Nike-Apache with the 35 mm Nike first stage, a BT-5 ASP/Cajun/Apache upper stage is only 0.04 mm wider than the correct scale diameter. Plus, all of these Nike-boosted models could have both stages "live," and could use gap-staging (as well as Evan "Buzz" Nau's gap-staged, streamer [or parachute] recovery for the first stage). |
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Here's a NIke Tomahawk I made from Quest parts based on the AVI Nike Tomahawk.
I don't know if that AVI kit was ever released. http://modelrocketbuilding.blogspot...Nike%20Tomahawk I wouldn't call the cardstock transition "easy", but it can be done. |
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I share your doubts as to whether the AVI Astroport Nike-Tomahawk, which was advertised, ever made it to production as a kit. Today, its Nike-to-Tomahawk interstage (as well as a Nike-to-ASP, Cajun, or Apache interstage) could be 3D printed in different types of plastic, including ABS plastic. Such "after-market, detail parts" could be made by Aerobotix (at Shapeways) and/or by Boyce Aerospace hobbies (I have 3D printed model rockets and rocket parts made by both, which are very good!). |
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They're now out of the old MPC/AVI/AVI Astroport-type scale Tomahawk plastic fin units (which isn't surprising, since I'd seen them listed as a "Limited Quantity" item on the Quest website for a year or more). "That mold is old" (literally), but cast resin and 3D printed duplicates can be made. They substituted (at no extra charge, even though they cost more) the slip-on, T20-size "Tomahawk-like" fin units that they use in their Starhawk kits. |
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