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Old 06-21-2018, 03:04 AM
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Originally Posted by BEC
Since you brought it up, here it is.

I still think, subjectively, that Q-Jet cases are as not hot post firing as Chinese Quest BP motors - especially the Cs. But the plastic cases must be hot enough to be deformable immediately after firing. None have felt "soft" when pulling them out of a normally recovered model (well, as near normally as you can what with the delay and ejection charges outside of what we'd consider "normal").
Whoa...at first glance (in the small thumbnail image, just before I read your posting), I thought it was a pickle! I guess the combination of its heat-caused relative plasticity, its rapid (gravity plus backward [downward?] ejection out the back of the rocket) downward travel, and the hardness of the ground where it hit may all have contributed to its deformation.
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