Booster attachment
Posted: Mon Aug 26, 2013 7:01 am
Hello everyone, I need help with booster attachment. How do you make those tubes and hooks? Image below.
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Didn't that system use dangerous metal coat hangers for hooks? Imagine if that thing exploded on the pad, it could put your eye out!newbrocketeer wrote:Hello everyone, I need help with booster attachment. How do you make those tubes and hooks? Image below.
Strattocoaster wrote:I am also interested in the best way to attach boosters. I was planning on using the wire & pen tube as the above drawing shows.
It can't put your eye out if you use 4 mm optical density safety glasses and a thick coat. Are you going to tell me that a piece of shrapnel is going to fly off and actually hit me (30% possibility), hit my eye super small spot (make it 3% possibility) then go through the glasses (1.5% possibility) and then put out my eye (0.75%) possibility). Unlikely to hurt someone but what ever you say since you are supposed to be the "expert" since your rocket is best.U.S. Water Rockets1 wrote:Didn't that system use dangerous metal coat hangers for hooks? Imagine if that thing exploded on the pad, it could put your eye out!newbrocketeer wrote:Hello everyone, I need help with booster attachment. How do you make those tubes and hooks? Image below
How is that coat going to protect your eye?Water Rocket Expert wrote: It can't put your eye out if you use 4 mm optical density safety glasses and a thick coat.
In my first sentence I said that you should where optical density 4mm saftey glasses.arjan wrote:How is that coat going to protect your eye?Water Rocket Expert wrote: It can't put your eye out if you use 4 mm optical density safety glasses and a thick coat.
So, when you talk about your dangerous experiments on the internet and some kid who doesn't have the same protective gear copies you and had a bad accident, will the coat and eye protection be able to protect your conscience (if you have one) and will you be able to sell your coat and eyewear for enough money to pay for a lawyer?Water Rocket Expert wrote:It can't put your eye out if you use 4 mm optical density safety glasses and a thick coat. Are you going to tell me that a piece of shrapnel is going to fly off and actually hit me (30% possibility), hit my eye super small spot (make it 3% possibility) then go through the glasses (1.5% possibility) and then put out my eye (0.75%) possibility). Unlikely to hurt someone but what ever you say since you are supposed to be the "expert" since your rocket is best.U.S. Water Rockets1 wrote:Didn't that system use dangerous metal coat hangers for hooks? Imagine if that thing exploded on the pad, it could put your eye out!newbrocketeer wrote:Hello everyone, I need help with booster attachment. How do you make those tubes and hooks? Image below.
Not all choices are honorable.Water Rocket Expert wrote:You could just put a warning saying I am not responsible.
Water Rocket Expert wrote:Oh no I am not saying they should be changed for competitions becaus that is a saftey issue I am just saying for the average person with safty equipment they could use metal parts.