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Old 08-02-2020, 02:10 PM
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That Tintin is incredible! The paint and checkerboards really look great.

And I like your method of using halves of balsa cones and adding them onto the fin — I may have to “leverage” that idea!
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Old 08-02-2020, 02:19 PM
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http://www.ninfinger.org/rockets/rockets.html

There are three RDC catalogs posted in Ninfinger, plus their Ballistics Manual. I provided two catalogs for scanning.

Chas


Looks like I’m the one who sent Sven the Ballistics Manual - forgot about that.
It came with a bunch of stuff that a friend dropped off when he was getting ready to move. A large Estes range box, Mini Max Hustler, assorted motors from mid to late ‘60’s were included among other things - not a bad haul. He probably would have thrown them out if I hadn’t been home when he called.
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Old 08-02-2020, 02:36 PM
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Thanks for the compliments!
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Old 08-02-2020, 08:11 PM
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Looks like I’m the one who sent Sven the Ballistics Manual - forgot about that.
It came with a bunch of stuff that a friend dropped off when he was getting ready to move. A large Estes range box, Mini Max Hustler, assorted motors from mid to late ‘60’s were included among other things - not a bad haul. He probably would have thrown them out if I hadn’t been home when he called.





Set the wayback machine to July 12, 2006 for more RDC chit-chat:
< https://forums.rocketshoppe.com/sho...hlight=Cardinal >


I did get around to replacing the Cardinal's fin. The original builder used gauze reinforcement on the fins; haven't decided whether or not I'm going to replace the rest of them.
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Old 08-21-2020, 07:43 PM
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I found time to get back on the Dart project this week. The white paint wasn't behaving in this humidity but I think it looks okay now. I also discovered that my original home made launch lugs suddenly didn't fit the rod anymore. I tried sanding the inside with no luck. I cut them off lengthwise at the mid line and used the remainder as saddles to accept polished aluminum tubing.

I thought I had one more set of decals but turns out there were no more checkerboards.
I didn't want to wait to obtain new ones, so I went old school and used a magic marker on label stock with several coats of clear.

There has been no measurable rain here for about six weeks so I won't fly it anytime soon.
I had big plans to fly the other half of the fleet, but with this drought I won't risk setting the hay field on fire.
I'm satisfied with the result and even more glad it's finally done. I only crashed it eight short years ago.
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Old 08-21-2020, 08:00 PM
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I found time to get back on the Dart project this week. The white paint wasn't behaving in this humidity but I think it looks okay now. I also discovered that my original home made launch lugs suddenly didn't fit the rod anymore. I tried sanding the inside with no luck. I cut them off lengthwise at the mid line and used the remainder as saddles to accept polished aluminum tubing.

I thought I had one more set of decals but turns out there were no more checkerboards.
I didn't want to wait to obtain new ones, so I went old school and used a magic marker on label stock with several coats of clear.

There has been no measurable rain here for about six weeks so I won't fly it anytime soon.
I had big plans to fly the other half of the fleet, but with this drought I won't risk setting the hay field on fire.
I'm satisfied with the result and even more glad it's finally done. I only crashed it eight short years ago.

In Hi Humidity, I paint, standing inside from my Back door,,, cracked enough for the paint to hit my rocket, holding it about half way out. This way, the paint travels thru A/C cooled air. The smell etc goes right out due to the inside air pressure and the humidity doesn’t affect the job. Then I put the painted rocket in a back room closed, near the A/C vent to dry cooly , not blistering. Try it....
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Old 08-21-2020, 09:49 PM
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Hey Erik-
It seems you have a hybrid between the Mini-Max and Enerjet Aerodart.
The rounded "blunt tip" nose cone was only used on the ST-20 based Enerjet Aerodart that had only three fins.
The Mini-Max Aerodart used Heavy-walled HT-175 tubing and had four fins.
While your version is great looking, it is not representative of an actual kitted version.
I made a mistake on my first Enerjet Aerodart clone as well. I put 4 fins on it too.
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Old 08-22-2020, 09:11 AM
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Danny- good tip
GH- A lot of my rockets are purposely hybrids. Often I prefer to interpret catalog designs rather than duplicate them exactly.
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Old 08-22-2020, 09:16 AM
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I found time to get back on the Dart project this week. The white paint wasn't behaving in this humidity but I think it looks okay now. I also discovered that my original home made launch lugs suddenly didn't fit the rod anymore. I tried sanding the inside with no luck. I cut them off lengthwise at the mid line and used the remainder as saddles to accept polished aluminum tubing.

I thought I had one more set of decals but turns out there were no more checkerboards.
I didn't want to wait to obtain new ones, so I went old school and used a magic marker on label stock with several coats of clear.

There has been no measurable rain here for about six weeks so I won't fly it anytime soon.
I had big plans to fly the other half of the fleet, but with this drought I won't risk setting the hay field on fire.
I'm satisfied with the result and even more glad it's finally done. I only crashed it eight short years ago.
Ah, I can now see how your lock system for the nose cones work based on these images ... very cool Erik!
I had been meaning to ask you about that.

Wow, you even painted the bulkhead. We have such terrible humidity here in South Louisiana that appears to be a good idea to keep unprotected balsa from swelling and affecting the bulkhead fitting in the body tube. Your finishing skills are great ... excellent looking Aero-Dart
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Old 08-22-2020, 09:28 AM
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Thanks Steve.
I'll call it the latest offering from the never kitted "Tribute Series" not available from any hobby shop.
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