06-21-2018, 03:04 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Fairbanks, Alaska
Posts: 6,507
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BEC
Since you brought it up, here it is.
I still think, subjectively, that Q-Jet cases are as not hot post firing as Chinese Quest BP motors - especially the Cs. But the plastic cases must be hot enough to be deformable immediately after firing. None have felt "soft" when pulling them out of a normally recovered model (well, as near normally as you can what with the delay and ejection charges outside of what we'd consider "normal").
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Whoa...at first glance (in the small thumbnail image, just before I read your posting), I thought it was a pickle! I guess the combination of its heat-caused relative plasticity, its rapid (gravity plus backward [downward?] ejection out the back of the rocket) downward travel, and the hardness of the ground where it hit may all have contributed to its deformation.
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