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Join Date: Feb 2020
Location: Central Colorado
Posts: 407
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Nose Cone Ballast and Recovery Dowel
Ballast: A 4" long piece of 1" steel bar stock was placed in the chuck of the wood lathe, then an angle grinder with a 1/16" thick cut off wheel was used to slice off a 1-1/2" long piece. A groove was cut in the o.d., also with the angle grinder.
Final weight is 156 grams
Recovery Dowel: This was cut via a hack saw from a piece of 3/8" steel bar, it's about 1-1/2" long also.
Final weight is 18 grams
Gorilla Wood Glue was placed into the Ballast o.d. groove and it was then slid down into the counter bore of the Nose Cone. Then a fillet of wood glue was placed around the o.d. with a syringe.
The Recovery Dowel is a tight press fit into the 3/8" cross bored hole in the Nose Cone Hub. |