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Rich's Rockets

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     Rocketry Product: Estes - Big Daddy {Kit} (2162) [1998-]

    Building the Estes Big Daddy (2015-03-06)
    “Building”? Slight exaggeration there, but “Taking Out Of the Bag and Thinking About How to Do It” doesn’t fit in the title so well. I’ve been trying to decide ... [Read More]

    Building the Estes Big Daddy (part 2) (2015-03-07)
    I started building the motor mount, and had a scary moment when I realized it wasn’t going to work the way I was about to do it. Fortunately there’s an easy fix. Here’s the ... [Read More]

    Building the Estes Big Daddy (part 3) (2015-03-14)
    I did some more work on the Big Daddy last Saturday, then woke up on Sunday with a nasty cold. I slept a lot the next couple days, finally got back to the work table on Wednesday night. I stacked ... [Read More]

    Building the Estes Big Daddy (part 4) (2015-03-15)
      After gluing that launch lug I remembered reading about someone who’d been having trouble with erratic launches of his Big Daddy until he added a second lug. I decided to do that ... [Read More]

    Building the Estes Big Daddy (part 5) (2015-09-24)
    Been a long time since my last Big Daddy post, though I think I’ve mentioned it was in primer, and that I won another Big Daddy kit at the August launch so swapped its good nose cone with the ... [Read More]