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 Rocketry Product: Semroc - Sprite {Kit} (KV-86)

Rich's Rockets: Building the Semroc Sprite (part 1) (2017-12-04)

For its winter project, the Syracuse Rocket Club is making Sprites. This isn’t a group build of a single rocket but individual builds of a single design: the K-15 Estes Sprite, or Astron Sprite ... [Read More]

Rich's Rockets: Building the Semroc Sprite (part 2) (2017-12-09)

Start with the motor mount which, by volume at least, is nearly the entire rocket. The motor hook goes on the outside of the body tube, and then the Tyvek piece gets glued over that. (It was gauze in ... [Read More]

Rich's Rockets: Building the Semroc Sprite (part 3) (2017-12-11)

The dried contact cement is… improved. Might never be beautiful. These days if I can remember to I prefer to glue launch lugs on before fins, so I did that. Much easier to line it up without ... [Read More]

Rich's Rockets: Building the Semroc Sprite (part 4) (2017-12-23)

This isn’t normally painting season, but I want to apply and sand primer on the body and flat fins before adding the ring and fin tips, and I don’t want to postpone further work until ... [Read More]

Rich's Rockets: Building the Semroc Sprite (part 5) (2018-02-03)

So I did more sanding and priming and sanding, and I glued the nose cone on, and I filled some dents and the nose/body seam with Bondo spot putty and sanded some more, and I went to put the ring fin ... [Read More]

Rich's Rockets: Building the Semroc Sprite (part 6) (2018-06-15)

Sorry about the radio silence. I’ve been procrastinating a lot on the Mega Sprite and anything else rocketry related, and busy sick out of town and so on. This week I went into last second rush ... [Read More]