Greg Kurlinski's Page
Location: Concord, CA
Club Memberships: LUNAR
Club Home Page: http://www.lunar.org/
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2012-12-17
Lamp v1
Rocksim Design
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2012-12-12
LAMP
Build
LAMP is mostly a joke that happened during RSI's 24 hour live feed during the end of their kickstarter campaign for Star Citizen. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cig/star-citizen and http://www.robertsspaceindustries.com/star-citizen/?rid=40931 during this feed, when the ... [More]
2012-12-08
Prototype 1
Flight
Flight good. Too much bp in the apoggy charge: the body tube split at the paper spiral seam. May be repairable. - F24 - Snow Ranch [More]
2012-04-16
4 fins, 3 Motor Mounts, 2 Airstarts, and a Altimeter - 4 AV
Build Entry
The AV bay is a 8" long, 29mm dia. (well actaully it is a bt-55 coupler, but close enough)
From Top - Down, this is a list of items planned for the av bay
ejection cap (main)
bulkhead
BeeLine (with its own LiPo battery) (the antenna lead will be run down the AV bay wall)
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4 fins, 3 Motor Mounts, 2 Airstarts, and a Altimeter - 3 Join MMT/Body
Build Entry
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4 fins, 3 Motor Mounts, 2 Airstarts, and a Altimeter - 2 body
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4 fins, 3 Motor Mounts, 2 Airstarts, and a Altimeter - 1 MMT
Build Entry
So, start with 3 "standard" estes 24mm (D and E) motor mount kits (p/n 303159). I built them with Epoxy, instead of white/yellow glue, just to insure strength, since this "Could" be launched on 3 F39's !
Attach 1-1/2 yard of kevlar shock cord to 2 of the mmts, and 3 yards to the mmt ... [More]
2012-04-14
Crazy Trzy (v0)
Rocksim Design
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2012-04-13
4 fins, 3 Motor Mounts, 2 Airstarts, and a Altimeter
Build
Who says small rockets have to be simple?
What is this rocket? It is (or will be) a scratch built 24mm normal looking rocket, that just happens to have:
2 side pods that also have 24mm mmt's.. that will be air started electonicly after the center motor burns out (plus a second or ... [More]
2012-04-07
Bucky Jones
Flight
G79 - Snow Ranch [More]
Bucky Jones
Flight
- g76 - Snow Ranch [More]
Mini-BBX w/ CPR3K w/ Terrier Booster
Flight
Power of lower stage was too low, going to need to step it up for any furture 2 stage flights. The top stage did not light either (seems to have been an ignighter problem).
The rocket did get high enough to arm the ejection charges, so everything did come down on 'chute. but ... [More]
2012-03-24
GL's Doppler Shift 2.6 - Finishing part 2
Build Entry
Nose cone :Primed with Krylon "Fusion for plastic" White primer, then 2 coats of Krylon Banner Red Gloss
Everything else was primed with OSH Enamal White primer.
Payload tube : Krylon yellow Avbay stripe : Black Sustainer body and FIN-DER's : Krylon White Gloss Forward 1/2 of fins ... [More]
2012-03-14
Pemberton Technologies - King Kraken
Rocksim Design
Rocksim 9 can now handle tube fins, but not the Beveled style that the Kraken uses. the 3-fin sets used here approximate the drag of the actual tubes. 
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2012-03-13
GL's Doppler Shift 2.6 - Finishing
Build Entry
Prime, sand, repeat.
Saddly due to the weather, these steps will take a while. While I was waiting for the primer to dry, I finished up the Avbay, not that there was that much to do. And I did some work on the decal that I will use, not sure yet if it will go on the flat of the ... [More]
2012-03-06
GL's Doppler Shift 2.6 - Day 4 (Fin-Ders)
Build Entry
The Fin-ders slip over each fin, and epoxyed. Try your best to get the fin-der's to align with each other... unfortuantly, one of mine is set back further than the other two.
Once everything was dry, I took alook at the gaps... yes, there WILL be gaps, it is designed that way.
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2012-03-05
GL's Doppler Shift 2.6 - Day 3
Build Entry
Trying to get the fincan/MM Tube to slide into the pre-sloted body tube took a lot of effort. Thankfully I was warned of this by my brother, and I was prepared.
First, as the instructions suggested I took off the 1/32" joint line that is at the middle of the fin can
Second, I sanded ... [More]
2012-03-03
Bucky Jones
Flight
parachute detached, but (somehow) the body fell flat with NO damage. will use a Screw Eye for next flight. - G53-5 - Snow Ranch [More]
King Kraken
Flight
- H128W - Snow Ranch [More]
Mini-BBX w/ CPR3K w/ Terrier Booster
Flight
H180W - Snow Ranch [More]
Mini-BBX w/ CPR3K w/ Terrier Booster
Flight
H180 - Snow Ranch [More]
2012-03-02
GL's Doppler Shift 2.6 - Day 2
Build Entry
I used DAP Plastic Wood to fill in the groves on the body tubes. Normally I dont bother, but I wanted this rocket's paint job to be extra nice.
Next up was the AV bay... seems kinda big.
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2012-03-01
GL's Doppler Shift 2.6 - Construction
Build Entry
No suprises so far:
Hardpoint anchor built, and installed on one end of the MMT
Centering ring glued on
Fin can slides up the mmt, then glued the Slimline.
Letting all this cure.
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2012-02-29
GL's Doppler Shift 2.6 - Delivery
Build Entry
And waiting for me today there it was....
Everything looked ok, except that the coupler was a bit pushed into the body tube, and rather stuck. It took about 20 minuets of gentle coaxing to seperate them
Here is another look at all the parts, with the packages opened.
Double ... [More]
2012-02-24
Doppler Shift
Rocksim Design
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My tries
Rocksim Design
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2012-02-23
GL's Doppler Shift 2.6
Build
It is on order, and has been shipped. tap. tap. tap. [More]
