Greetings people again, I'm back and with another blog post, I've got some news, the rocket is getting close to completion, the day of launching at the Perth rocket club is getting closer and the English blogging assignment was finished at the end of last term.
I know that some of you might not know who I am but you will in the first blog but don't know what I look like. So soon the valence of me will be lifted and you all will know. It will be in a video and if you want to see it, you'll have to be prepared. Doesn't matter if you are or not but the video will come soon enough.
Some people in my English class have wondered when I'll get going to lunching day at the club and I have good news and that is 'The Fire ban is over'. It all ended at the start of this term. Well I hope you all are waiting to see some launches in the first launch day so be ready to find out.
I know that some of my class mates of my English class have decided not to continue on with their blogs as some others have decided to continued on like I have and I'm not ready to stop, just too early but I might have some breaks or you might not see some other blogs because I'll be busy working on my rocket or some other rockets that are built from scratch.
I'll be heading off now, I've got some other homework to do and for next time and for some new people, I'm Daniel Burmas and see you people later.
Thursday, 27 April 2017
Tuesday, 25 April 2017
Section completed
Greetings people, I'm back once again with another blog post and this time, I've got some good news, I've completed a section of the rocket it self. The section that I've completed was the one with the fins and it was perfect.
What I attended to do with my Dad for details is first calculating the circumference of the external diameter of the body of the rocket, then using a piece of paper and mark some dots on the line that are a right over the other lines that the edge of the paper has overlapped, halving the circumference and then calculate the quarter of the circumference to get the marks on the paper to draw the lines for where the fins are going to be placed, pinning the fins on the rocket to make it easier to glue the fins but with two pins and then glue the fins and then wait for the glue to dry.
(23/04/2017): The fins have already dried up and connected to the rocket but the fins are not completely finished, with the glue alone, the fins are not strong enough to stay attached to the rocket. The glue is not super glue, the fins will break off on impact on the surface after parachuting down. The solution to that is to use what is called araldite which is a mix of two araldite glues which mixes together to form the glue but needs to be applied on fast before it dries out.
There are other problems, the nosecone is still to be made but there are only three prototypes already made and still the actual nosecone is not yet being built. Later today, I will start work on the nosecone and then I'll be getting closer to completing the rocket but the other thing is the parachute which is vital to the rocket it self but I have a choice, try to find a parachute in a hobby store or I'll just have to make one myself.
(26/04/2017): I'm unable to post a photo to this blog post from my photo files or my phone but sometime soon, I'll be able to post a photo from my school computer.
What I attended to do with my Dad for details is first calculating the circumference of the external diameter of the body of the rocket, then using a piece of paper and mark some dots on the line that are a right over the other lines that the edge of the paper has overlapped, halving the circumference and then calculate the quarter of the circumference to get the marks on the paper to draw the lines for where the fins are going to be placed, pinning the fins on the rocket to make it easier to glue the fins but with two pins and then glue the fins and then wait for the glue to dry.
(23/04/2017): The fins have already dried up and connected to the rocket but the fins are not completely finished, with the glue alone, the fins are not strong enough to stay attached to the rocket. The glue is not super glue, the fins will break off on impact on the surface after parachuting down. The solution to that is to use what is called araldite which is a mix of two araldite glues which mixes together to form the glue but needs to be applied on fast before it dries out.
There are other problems, the nosecone is still to be made but there are only three prototypes already made and still the actual nosecone is not yet being built. Later today, I will start work on the nosecone and then I'll be getting closer to completing the rocket but the other thing is the parachute which is vital to the rocket it self but I have a choice, try to find a parachute in a hobby store or I'll just have to make one myself.
(26/04/2017): I'm unable to post a photo to this blog post from my photo files or my phone but sometime soon, I'll be able to post a photo from my school computer.
Tuesday, 11 April 2017
Running through Problems
Greetings People, I'm back, it's been quite a while since the last blog I've sent but doesn't matter, and I'm going through okay. Today is the School Holidays, giving me a good time to work on my first rocket but the only thing is I'm running through a set back which is the nosecone.
The reason why it's a set back, is because as Mum and I looked through in the shed with the unfinished kits or kits that haven't been built yet, the nosecones that they have don't fit the rocket I'm building and the ones that have already been built don't fit the rocket, some are too big, the most of them are a bit small.
For that information, that forces us to build a homemade nosecone but with different strategies of how to make one like from balsa wood with a wood Lathe.Unfortunately I can't get an image that matches the strategy because it will affect the security of the blogger.com.
Or from balsa wood (same material) but as sheets, bent to take shape. Unfortunately I can't get an image to match the strategy I'm talking about, although as I've found the one I'm looking for, I couldn't be able to copy the image and send it on this Blog Post.
Maybe with plastic from a 3D Printer. I'm also unable to view an image for this stratagy because of the same thing for the one for the wood lathe. Doing it with a 3D printer is tricky but it requires a computer to make a computerized model of the nosecone and then printed from the printer machine and cleaning up the over hangs from the printed model.
Well, that's all for today, if there's anything else I need to add, I'll put it on my blog so I hope you people would understand what I'm saying. See you guys around.
The reason why it's a set back, is because as Mum and I looked through in the shed with the unfinished kits or kits that haven't been built yet, the nosecones that they have don't fit the rocket I'm building and the ones that have already been built don't fit the rocket, some are too big, the most of them are a bit small.
For that information, that forces us to build a homemade nosecone but with different strategies of how to make one like from balsa wood with a wood Lathe.Unfortunately I can't get an image that matches the strategy because it will affect the security of the blogger.com.
Or from balsa wood (same material) but as sheets, bent to take shape. Unfortunately I can't get an image to match the strategy I'm talking about, although as I've found the one I'm looking for, I couldn't be able to copy the image and send it on this Blog Post.
Maybe with plastic from a 3D Printer. I'm also unable to view an image for this stratagy because of the same thing for the one for the wood lathe. Doing it with a 3D printer is tricky but it requires a computer to make a computerized model of the nosecone and then printed from the printer machine and cleaning up the over hangs from the printed model.
Well, that's all for today, if there's anything else I need to add, I'll put it on my blog so I hope you people would understand what I'm saying. See you guys around.
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