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Very nice, Kevin.

I'd never thought of stitching the main charge wires right into the recovery harness, but that's a nice touch for sure.

In my larger burritos, I use brass eyelets, and the burrito gets "bootlaced" together. I use a length of 1/4" polyethylene tubing, with holes corresponding to the places in the "bootlace" pattern where I want the nylon "lacing" to go through. Put some FFFg powder and an e-match in the polyethylene tube, and you're ready to rock and roll...

When you "bootlace" a burrito, it has to be sized appropriately for the chute that's inside it. Ideally, you want the chute to be pretty snug inside the burrito, which puts adequate tension on the whole assembly, making it very happy to come apart at the right moment. Imagine, for a moment, Raquel Welch getting laced into a corset, and you kinda get the idea :-)

adequate tension... Raquel Welch....

Thank you for reminding me that there are a few things more interesting than rockets.

Don't ever change, Marcus.

snipped-for-privacy@propulsionpolymers.com wrote: Imagine, for a moment, Raquel Welch

For a moment? I've been imagining that for hours on end every day since junior high school.

Nicely done, Kevin!

nicely done, both the entire system and the web page

I like your shock absorber system. reminds me a bit of dock line strain systems for larger boats. for a larger rocket I would be tempted to run the main strap all the way, a bit longer than the maximum stretch of the two elastics as you have it.

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Imagine, for a moment, Raquel Welch

Do you mean using an airbag system as backup recovery device?

I agree. I'm also toying with alternative placements for the shock absorption system, running it somewhere in the middle of the harness and sheathing it somehow so it won't tangle the rest of the rigging. That way the webbing could be one continuous piece end-to-end.

Kevin