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Old 09-19-2019, 09:19 AM
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Originally Posted by PaulK
Looks Great, Tim! What did the final weight come in at?


Sorry for the delay, school started up and that's a busy time of year for my work.

A whopping 535 grams. As I got further into the assembly it became apparent it was going to be significantly heavier than I expected, so I did switch gears on the engine mount. Luckily I was able to cut out the 24 mm mount without too much trouble and replace it with a 29mm mount. I didn't go crazy with epoxy gluing the fins on, only one coat of paint, no primer. Still came out 535 grams. I know if I had to do it again, the conduits and charge retainers would be balsa and card stock, and based on my experience with the TLP kit, making balsa fins was not that hard. I'd likely just print the nose cone, which really came out awesome, and call it a day.
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