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- From: cdt@sw.stratus.com (C. D. Tavares)
- Newsgroups: rec.models.rockets
- Subject: Re: hot glue
- Date: 31 Dec 1992 19:03:44 GMT
- Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc.
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- References: <1hq68oINNdh5@transfer.stratus.com> <85995@ut-emx.uucp>
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- In article <85995@ut-emx.uucp>, miles@emx.cc.utexas.edu (Miles Abernathy) writes:
- > I have only flown a small Estes rocket, the hobby store kind, but I was
- > told on good authority (by a fellow who helps students put similar
- > rockets together "all day long" at the school where he teaches) that you
- > could use hot glue on the fins. I guess the motor burns out before the
- > glue warms up.
-
- Yup, it does. The motor doesn't deliver full heat until well after
- ejection. So when the model is about halfway down on the parachute,
- you can watch your fins glop off and flutter away.
-
- Really, if it's speed you want, use Hot Stuff. If you can wait all of
- five minutes, use five-minute epoxy.
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