LarryBAR99

In my excitement about working on the X-Wing  I forgot to describe my other project after fixing my printer nozzle.  I stumbled across Luna (from Destination Moon) model rocket by Works-Of-Claye on Thingiverse.  It's a small rocket, using a B or C engine, but the author admits he hadn't flown it at the time he shared the files.  I was attracted to this rocket because it was featured in the 1950 movie, Destination Moon  and I'm a sucker for retro looking SciFi rockets (like the Silver Comet ). I made some modifications to what the author's design, including adding a base to the nose cone in Thingiverse so it slipped into the body tube instead of having to clamp onto the top of the body tube.   Using Tinkercad to add a base for the nose cone I also modified the gcode for the lower body to pause and change filaments to print red tips on the fin pods .  I printed the baffle and a screw on 18 mm engine retainer using PETG for heat resistance. Printing the ...

I've had some printer problems in the past month where the print head kept moving but nothing was coming out.  After a lot of Googling and anguish I figured out I needed to replace the nozzle on the print head and how to do it when the filament was stuck and wouldn't retract.  Anyway, I'm back in business now. NCR X-Wing Fighter from 1996 Estes Catalog I came across a cool looking build thread on The Rocketry Forum entitled X-Wing Fighter Builds . The author, The Red Darren, was going through several different iterations of 3D printing and building a Star Wars X-Wing using balsa for the fins.  He's still perfecting his project, but shared a couple of STL files  which got me interested.  I printed the parts, which are meant to be assembled like shown here : I quickly recognized the solid parts would be hard to turn into a rocket.  I'd made a couple of attempts at using my printer's ability to print in "vase mode", where one thin continuous layer is prin...