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Old 05-24-2019, 09:12 PM
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Default Mercury Redstone 1:52

I've maybe gone 3D printer crazy and I've got 3 projects going at once! While browsing Thingiverse I came across files for a "Mercury Capsule for Polecat 5.5" Redstone".

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3285664

I happend to have a length of Semroc Centuri ST-13 (Estes BT-56) sitting in front of me and thought, why not!

I started this project when I got my first 3D printer, I printed the capsule, but I just couldn't get the tower to print. After a dozen or so tries I gave up and shelved it. Today I was sitting at my desk getting ready to work on the Pershing when I looked at the capsule sitting there and thought I'd try the tower again with my new printer. Same results, disaster. But I kept trying, then I hit the right settings combination in the slicing program, and success! So I went ahead and printed the rest of the parts. This is scaled down to 24.25% of the Polecat version. I'm using PETG again, so I think the tower may be strong enough for flight, worst case, I get to print another one!
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