Just to mention, it will take sometime to get these motors going and into the system, I would suspect, by the time the kits start coming out, so will these motors.
A8-0
A10-0T

I concur on the B14's. We're not going to see them unless someone figures out a safe way to make them. Any volunteers to drill out cores?

Great news on the new booster motors. Now I don't have to ration my existing supply.

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Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati

There has to be a way to use some type of rubber mold that can form the core as the B14's
propellant is shaped automatically. Of course, I don't know exactly how those engines are
mass produced, but there has to be a way.....

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Dave, NAR # 21853 SR.

Rocketguy and Solo ...

You guys just pegged the Geek Meter so hard it bent the needle.

But I agree completely -- loved the B14.

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Lee Reep
NAR 55948

Projects: Semroc Saturn 1B, Ken Foss Designs Mini Satellite Interceptor
In the Paint Shop: Nothing! Too cold!
Launch-Ready: Farside-X, Maxi Honest John, Super Scamp

I am a proud member of the "Hairy-earred Engineer Society" and wore pocket protectors for years (with obligatory 6" stainless ruler)

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David Stribling
NAR 18402 SR
But it is rocket science!
Get yer Barrowmans here

So does this become the new "Drill, Baby Drill!" issue?

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David Stribling
NAR 18402 SR
But it is rocket science!
Get yer Barrowmans here

At the pressures they use to press black powder, I don't think there's any possibility that you could get a deep-cored, mass-produced motor without breaking many parts in the machine so often that it would be economically a lost cause, and would be dangerous to boot. Doing it as a semi automated two-part process (pressed shallow core, drilled deep core) would only be marginally economical, and still pretty dangerous.

The later B14's were made without drilled cores. Their max thrust was about 2/3rds that of the drilled B14's, and they were just a little higher thrust than the eventual B8/C5 motors. It would still be good to see a higher thrust B or C motor in 18mm format.

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Roy
nar12605

I agree completely.

terry dean

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I'd settle for a long burn B.

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