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Old 02-18-2022, 09:56 AM
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The cord running up the side of the rocket seems kludgy.

This is a very common technique in competition flying, where you want nothing in the upper tube to get in the way of your recovery system.

For fins, I like the CA suggestion. Adding more weight (beyond the added weight of plywood vs balsa) could threaten stability.
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Old 02-18-2022, 10:01 AM
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Kludgy?? Both of my parents were teachers, but I’m gonna have to look that one up.

It comes from the early days of the hacker movement, basically referring to a solution that does the job but ... it's ugly. Not elegant.

IMO, the perfect shock cord mount has yet to appear. I don't really like any of them.
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Kludgy was around well before hackers - I kludged many things back in the late 1960's............

kludge noun

ˈklüj

variants: or kluge \ ˈklüj
, US also and British especially ˈkləj ; ˈklü-​jē

Definition of kludge

: a haphazard or makeshift solution to a problem



The first recorded use of the word kludge is attributed to Jackson W. Granholm, who defined the word in a 1962 issue of the magazine Datamation as "an ill-assorted collection of poorly-matching parts, forming a distressing whole.
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Kludgy was around well before hackers - I kludged many things back in the late 1960's.

Hmm. I seem to have conflated computer hackery with MIT prank culture. Regrets.
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Actually, I AM familiar with the term “kluge”. I always thought it began with a “c” because I’d never seen it written before. Our (now retired) software engineer used the term quite often, i.e.: “I’ll see if I can kluge the Mitsubishi drive to run from the Yaskawa drive software”. It was sometimes followed by “Hold my beer and watch this!”
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