Turned the nose cone on the wood lathe. I used a piece of the trunk of a Pinyon Pine tree we cut down on our property about 7 years ago.

The worms had bored some holes in the piece, which gives some character to the finished part.

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OK,

So I learned something to share; this forum does support multi-lingual characters:

I'm NOT picking on, flaming or otherwise disparaging HenryMac.

Pi?on is the spanish word for pine. Pi?on trees are found throughout the American Southwest. The wood is fabulous for campfires but I never thought to make nosecones out of it.

So apparently, the way you get an enye (the spanish n with the tilde on top) is to press Alt 164 for lowercase and Alt 165 for the uppercase. An umlaut u for your Launch Cr?e is Alt 0252.

I was today years old . . . .



Edit: so when you type it in it works and looks right but when it gets displayed it gets substituted with a question mark so . . . .

Oh, Well

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Awaiting First Launch: Too numerous to count
Finishing: Zooch Saturn V; Alway/Nau BioArcas; Estes Expedition; TLP Standard
Repair/Rescue: Cherokee-D (2); Centuri Nike-Smoke; MX-774
On the Bench: 2650;
Dream Stage: 1/39.37 R-7

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John Simmons a.k.a. "Lakeroadster"
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Yup, problem solved.

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NARTrek Silver
I miss being SAM 062

Awaiting First Launch: Too numerous to count
Finishing: Zooch Saturn V; Alway/Nau BioArcas; Estes Expedition; TLP Standard
Repair/Rescue: Cherokee-D (2); Centuri Nike-Smoke; MX-774
On the Bench: 2650;
Dream Stage: 1/39.37 R-7

I did a preliminary swing test today in (4) different positions, Nose Cone Canted:

Inward
Outward
Upward
Downward

The canted nose cone does not appear to tilt the rocket off it's vertical c/l.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7XIHqF8_H8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djy-BjBm17s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrCtqCrxWxY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVmSbCsOlDY

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My Fleet with Build Data: Lakeroadster's Rocket Shop

This thang needs a "Wile E. Coyote" decal.

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Failure may not be an OPTION, but it is ALWAYS a POSSIBILITY.
ALL systems are GO for MAYHEM, CHAOS, TURMOIL, FIASCOS, and HAVOC !

I especially like the last picture where it looks like you dodged a missile...


Bill

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Ready for some primer...

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