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| Breathe Right srtip on ignition wire |
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In the never ending quest to perfect ignition of HyperTek Hybrids, Marty D. has found yet another interresting technique - using a Breathe Right nasal strip on the ignition wire end! What's good for the old nose is even better for holding the cut end of the wire out to touch the grain after setting the rocket over the fill stem at the pad. It's the springiness of the band, that when wrapped INSIDE OUT does its job. After removing the release tape off the strip, position the strip at it's halfway point at the end of the GOX tube. Wrap the adhesive "wings" around the tube. Remove the other release tape half, and place the wire over the N20 tube and rest it on the strip. Wrap the cut wire end with the strip "wings" to hold the cut end out. Carefully bend it over so it can fit up inside the nozzle when you load the rocket - but not too much to destroy the spring-out effect. As you can see in the photo, the strip wings wrapped around the GOX tube act as an insulator for the tip of the wire. In addition, the wings of vinyl wrapped over the cut end provide a tasty bit of extra fuel during ignition. Try this technique when using SOLID 24ga. wire which tends to stay bend down after rocket motor loading as compared to the preferred stranded 24ga. Either way, I have found this to be THE METHOD to fire off those pesky FX grains. The Breathe-Right technique was used on my On-boad video launch. |
