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by bernomatic
Fri, 29 Apr 16, 18:02 pm
Forum: General Rocketry
Topic: A tale of two emails (with apologies to Dickens)
Replies: 1
Views: 2573

A tale of two emails (with apologies to Dickens)

first email In the BE-4 preburner, a very small portion of the engine’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) fuel mixes and burns with all of the engine’s liquid oxygen to produce hot gaseous oxygen, which is used to drive the turbine and spin the turbopumps. Oxygen and LNG burn stoichiometrically above 6,00...
by bernomatic
Thu, 28 Apr 16, 16:51 pm
Forum: Politics As Usual
Topic: Kinda says it all about the democratic side
Replies: 2
Views: 2651

Re: Kinda says it all about the democratic side

I know he was being tactical when Donald Trump said that he wished Bernie would run for president as an independent, but maybe it would let the democratic party know, kinda in the way Trump has let the GOP know, that the people are getting tired of the same old political games. And of course now wit...
by bernomatic
Thu, 28 Apr 16, 03:17 am
Forum: Politics As Usual
Topic: Cruz & Fiorina for prez and vice
Replies: 5
Views: 4432

Cruz & Fiorina for prez and vice

I'm going to say something and everyone is going to take it the wrong way, but Ted Cruz is now scraping the bottom of the barrel... Not in the fact that he picked Carly (I was kinda hoping Trump would make the same choice). If we could go back to the old Cantina, one would see that about this time l...
by bernomatic
Tue, 26 Apr 16, 04:51 am
Forum: Createx Paints
Topic: Createx Airbrush Colors
Replies: 23
Views: 31706

Re: Createx Airbrush Colors

Alright, now for the sad part. As I said above, the whole rocket had been heat cured using a hair dryer, but still felt tacky. I went in little circles with that hair dryer over one area till it got warm to the touch and then moved about an inch over and circled again. Well, Saturday I was at the Au...
by bernomatic
Tue, 26 Apr 16, 04:37 am
Forum: Createx Paints
Topic: Createx Airbrush Colors
Replies: 23
Views: 31706

Re: Createx Airbrush Colors

All right, here's the scoop. I have been working on this rocket for the longest time. Typical stuff, I don't want to rush it, this is a labor of love, etc. Problem no. 1 was finding a fluorescent orange for inside the ram jets. After much trail and error (and not having a lot of funds at the time, I...
by bernomatic
Tue, 26 Apr 16, 03:23 am
Forum: Model Rocketry
Topic: Could anyone compete with the NAR?
Replies: 4
Views: 6262

Could anyone compete with the NAR?

Is the NAR the Estes of rocketry organizations? In other words, is there no way that a new organization could come along, kinda like Tripoli did? It seems that these organizations get so large that they really lose touch with the individual rocketeer. Add to that the "power" that they don'...
by bernomatic
Mon, 25 Apr 16, 03:20 am
Forum: General Rocketry
Topic: Project Pluto
Replies: 6
Views: 5331

Re: Project Pluto

All I can say is, sometimes the minds of men really scare the *oops you said word #1 out of me.
by bernomatic
Sun, 24 Apr 16, 18:45 pm
Forum: SpamBot Graveyard
Topic: Re: Mental shown admissions... SPAM, SPAM, SPAM........
Replies: 10
Views: 11547

Re: Mental shown admissions... SPAM, SPAM, SPAM........

Last night they came out in force, hundreds of them... :o I have been putting out blurbs on facebook and google+ trying to get new rocketry users to sign up. What I got was a bunch of new "users" all right. "spambot" users. There were scores of them. :shock: I'd http://www.picgif...
by bernomatic
Sat, 23 Apr 16, 21:31 pm
Forum: Createx Paints
Topic: Createx Airbrush Colors
Replies: 23
Views: 31706

Createx Airbrush Colors

After first having problems with these paints for airbrushes, then having limited success on the Scorpion, I'm back to having limited success trying to paint my USS Andromeda. I found out you have to heat cure the paints per the instructions on the bottles. but that's all they said, "Cure with ...