Scout 2004

Trailer Trash Aerospace and Venturing Crew 9764 are working on a project for their next Rocket Jamboree!

The rocket is a 6" tube fin made from Sono-Tube and will fly on a "L" sugar motor

This page will show the project from drawing board to flight. Check back soon for updates as the quest continues! Click on any of the pictures to see a full size view.

For those of you that have RocSim v6 this is the sim file that the guys made. Since the rocket is a tube fin and the simulation can not replicate the tubes the picture looks a little different.

RocSim File 34K

These are most of the parts displayed before assembly. The nose cone is still in the works but you can see the base and the dowel that is the core of the cone.

This is a mockup of the parts made for the rocket. The nose cone is from the 6" test rocket.	Venturing Crew 9764 consists of Dan Sharp, Mark Gordon, Marcus Mather, Ryan Blair, Rob Lucas and Scout Leader Mark Sharp Here are a few pictures of the first build session for the tube rocket. The guys got down to filling the body tubes and fin tubes. Then glued the fin can together and got the first tube fin attached to the can.





	Making of a Cone!
We have made several conical nose cones like this with paper then glassed. G10 turned out to be a much better material, strong and easy to finish. We used .010" G10 from www.portplastics.com it was about $25.00 for a 3' x 4' sheet, it cuts with scissors and rolls down to about 3/4" without cracking.

The G10 was wrapped around a nose cone and marked at the top, bottom and glue seam. Then a piece of string was used as a compass to mark the arcs and cut out with scissors. It was sanded at the glue locations with an orbital sander. Some release film was cut a little larger than the G10, we use window tint and throw away the tinted sticky stuff and use the slippery backing.


The release film is taped to the cone to be copied, epoxy spread on the overlap areas of the G10 and it was wrapped around the cone and securely taped. After the epoxy cured the tape was removed and the cone test fitted on it's base.


The base is made form a piece of sono tube with a slice removed, it and some release film put inside the body tube and epoxied back together, the same way the couplers are made. Around the top is a 1 in tube to make an even fit to the body tube, inside are 2 centering rings to hold the dowel and a 6 inch section of 54 mm motor mount tube to hold the Gwiz LC. The cone was epoxied to the dowel and base and when cured filled with foam. The G10 seam and around the dowel are filled with bondo and sanded ready for primer.


The cone in primer with its electronics bay and G-Wiz MC ready to fly.