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- From: paul@taniwha.UUCP (Paul Campbell)
- Newsgroups: rec.models.rockets
- Subject: Re: Other reloadables besides Aerotech? (Re: Info. about solid rocket-
- Message-ID: <1365@taniwha.UUCP>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 21:49:15 GMT
- References: <1346@taniwha.UUCP> <19921221181458.Roger.Wilfong@umich.edu> <Bzrs6r.477@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
- Organization: Taniwha Systems Design
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- In article <Bzrs6r.477@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) writes:
- >This brings up another thing I've been wondering about.
- >
- >How can one size of casing take both F and G reloads? The total impulse
- >of one is twice as much as the other, so there must be twice as much pro-
- >pellant in one grain than the other. Either they use two different pro-
- >pellants with different "impulse densities" (impulse/volume) or they must
- >have something take up the excess space. Is it a solid filler or is it
- >air?
-
- There is no filler.
-
- Well Fs really have a range from just bigger than an E to just smaller than a G
- a 'full' F and a small G with different propellents might fit in the same
- casing. In practice though one tends to buy a pair of ends and an assortment
- of casings that take 1/2/3/4 grains to provide 4 different impulses with
- the same propellent.
-
- For example, I recommend that people who want to get into high-power buy an
- ISP 29-40/60 reload which lets you fly Class C (if Fs/Gs), when you confirm
- you can buy the 80/100 casings to fly Hs.
-
- >Same thing for delays. In motors with delays, how do you put in different
- >delay elemts since they'd be different lengths? I take it that any empty
- >space in a motor is bad.
-
- The short delays have spacers on the propellent end (the delay still sits
- tight up against the top of the motor - you don't want space to let the
- ejection charge fall inside the motor). When you put your motors together
- getting all those spacers in can be a pain, they are a real tight fit - but
- if you don't the delay grain can slip back under boost ....
-
- Paul
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