So, what have you been doing lately?

Well, I haven't been doing much rocketry so far this year.  We've spent a lot of time babysitting our grandson, watching him for almost two weeks while his parents were out of the country earlier this year.  We took road trips to visit friends in South Carolina, Georgia and Minnesota.  We spent a long weekend visiting our daughter in Philadelphia this summer.  I've also discovered sourdough, isolating my own starter in March and regularly baking bread and other things with sourdough discard (English muffins, bagels, flatbreads, crackers, etc.).  I've also made fresh baguettes using sourdough starter, which turns into an all day project!

I've been reprinting several copies of my four color license plate frame after the one I made for my wife melted when the car was parked in direct sunlight.  

It took several tries, but I've substituted black PETG for the black PLA used to build the main part of the license plate.  PETG withstands higher temperatures than PLA, but it's trick to work with because it either sticks too much to the printer surface or is too brittle.   It's also not recommended to mix filament types (PETG + PLA) but I've mostly got it working using 210 C for the filament head and 60 C for the bed temperature in Cura.

I've finally started working again on my Space Shuttle clone with boosters, and have started cutting the booster tubes for the release mechanism.  I hope to finish it and launch before the end of September.  I'll post updates as I make progress.

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