Rich's Rockets Posts
Building the FlisKits Rose-a-Roc (Part 1) (2015-03-31)I’ve let a fair fraction of my work space (and play time) get taken over by my chalumeau project but there still are rockets to be built! I’ll try to squeeze that in. I opened up ... [Read More]
Building the FlisKits Rose-a-Roc (Part 2) (2015-04-04)I took a few minutes out of an otherwise busy Saturday to get started on this build. Following the instructions closely for a change of pace, I started by cutting out the rotors: Those square pieces ... [Read More]
Building the FlisKits Rose-a-Roc (Part 3) (2015-04-22)Okay, so it’s been about two and a half weeks since Part 2. So what have I been doing on this kit? Not a lot. But some, a few minutes here and there. Next step, say the instructions, is to ... [Read More]
Building the FlisKits Rose-a-Roc (Part 4) (2015-05-19)And another long delay. I don’t need to finish this thing before August ... [Read More]
Building the FlisKits Rose-a-Roc (Part 5) (2015-07-05)Okay, let’s get this thing done, shall we? Or a lot of the way toward done. I put the hub together and wired the rotors to the hub. Here it is after trimming the wires and putting the hub on ... [Read More]
Building the FlisKits Rose-a-Roc (Part 6) (2015-07-24)I didn’t much like the thought of gluing the other ends of the rubber bands to slits in the nose cone, so I decided to give the other way a try. I drilled small shallow holes in the nose cone ... [Read More]
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]
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