Boosters, splicing, Robinson coupling help!

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Boosters, splicing, Robinson coupling help!

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I was wondering if some one could give me a dezine for easy fall away boosters. Also easy robinson coupling plans, and also will liquid nails work for splicing?
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I need help with a dezine for falling away boosters and an easy robinson coupling, will liquid nails work for splicing? Also an easy staging mechanism dezine would be nice thanks
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Liquid Nails is a no. Are you able to get a polyurethane glue like pl premium?
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Getting ready to launch this airstart/staging mecahism today if plans go well. The lower stage has a glueless pvc (no metal) version of the robinson coupling on board as well. I'll let you know how it goes.

http://www.wra2.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2682
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I can get pl
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Will pl 750 work? Or does it have to be premium? Can some one also tell me how to attach bottles end to end
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Or does pl roofing glue with polyurethane work?
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PL Premium 3x or 8x is well tested and what I know will work. Anything else, you will be experimenting.

Check out the How to section of this forum yet? Some good stuff there.
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No I'll check it thanks
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Pl roofing glue worked great !
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Great! Best cure time for the plp is at least 4 days. But then the bottle should fail first.
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Wow my phone must have mangled my post. Is the pl roofing black? I'll be very interested to hear your results.
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Its black, it didn't burst at 80 psi, but the pvc launcher did lol
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Oh um, you're supposed to use Schedule 40 at a minimum... best solution is to use steel for lower and screw on pvc launch tube. But pvc sched 40 works if you keep it under 200psi
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I'm actually gonna build a gardena launcher( I think that's what its called )