Decided that the Forward Centering ring should have an “AFT” fillet. The “Forward” fillet was created by the initial gluing process; as the glue was pushed forward. So nothing needs to be done here.<\/p>\n
The creation of the fillet is not straight-forward because it was all the way down. So instead decided to lay ~35 ml of Epoxy resin using tube and allow it form a ring. So not a true fillet in the sense (not shaped like a fillet), but still forms the role of a fillet.<\/p>\n
I taped up the Motor-Mount and Airframe where the AFT centering ring eventually needs to be glued (didn’t want this getting clogged up). I also pushed a bunch of newspaper down the Motor Mount and taped over it with Masking tape. Didn’t want ANY glue accidentally getting into the Motor Mount.<\/p>\n
The Epoxy was just 105\/206 mix and inserted using long doweling with 5 mm (internal diameter) plastic tubing. I secured the rocket to the bench using cable ties and let it sit there for 10 hours.<\/p>\n
It was very straight-forward procedure<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Decided that the Forward Centering ring should have an “AFT” fillet. The “Forward” fillet was created by the initial gluing process; as the glue was pushed forward. So nothing needs to be done here. The creation of the fillet is not straight-forward because it was all the way down. So instead decided to lay ~35 … Continue reading Forward Centering Ring Fillet<\/span>