[NRVR-Members] What are folks doing for buying new motor casing hardware now days?

[Pat Artis]

Tweeks

Pick one, 75 or 98, and I will let you borrow a case. Like Bob, I bought
the cases since I did not have an option. Between them, they have 6 or 8
flights.

Pat

On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 9:50 PM, Thomas Tweeks Weeks <
tweeks-junk2 at theweeks.org> wrote:

> Thanks for the useful info Jordan. I hadn't dug that far into all my
> options yet, but was just starting to weed through the motor selections to
> lift this big 32lb rocket for my L3 cert flight at LDRS. I was looking at a
> small M, 75mm single use.
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> Initially I was thinking that I wouldn't use 75mm size motors that often
> back here in Blacksburg, and would just mainly fly on a 54mm adapter.
> However, at 32lbs it seems that not that much in 54mm will do the job on
> this bird (5:1 thrust requires an avg of 720N thrust, unless looking at
> VMax or white thunder).. so it's looking like 75mm is the most useful size
> motor for this thing.
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> Maybe 75mm CTI hardware will work just fine.
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> Comments or related thoughts welcome.
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> Tweeks
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> On Saturday, March 11, 2017 6:42am, "Jordan Truesdell" <
> jordan at truesdell.org> said:
>
> CTI Hardware for 75mm was built specifically to fly Aero tech reloads. It
> was developed for the (military/scientific?) community when AT had their
> production stoppage. There are physical differences - I presume to
> circumvent patents - which requires an additional o-ring of standard size,
> avail at Amazon for under $1 each in qty 5. But there is no functional
> difference.
> I decided to skip 54mm HW and just fly big 38s with an adapter. (tho I
> have CTI HW, so who knows what will come of that)
> Jordan
>
> On Mar 11, 2017 2:19 AM, "Thomas Tweeks Weeks" <tom at theweeks.org> wrote:
>
>> Hey all..
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>> So I'm in the market for 54 and 75mm motor hardware for my new big bird..
>> and am just wondering.. is anyone buying Cesaroni any more? I really like
>> Cesaroni since they first came out with the ProX line. I mean Aerotech is
>> okay.. but they sure are messy (compared to the Aerotech 54mm anyway).
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>> But I was thinking about just doing my L3 on a single use small M
>> Aerotech.. and continue using single use 54/75mm until the news is in on
>> Cesaroni..
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>> Thoughts?
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>> Tweeks
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