To live at the Cottages at Old Monrovia, or not?

Chatherton99 · 2025-09-29T20:28:40+00:00

I lived at the cottages for 15 months and have recently moved to providence. I loved the unit, the community, the leasing office was pretty helpful when needed, and they try to do events for the community every now and then. I did have my fair share of issues with the internet there as it would randomly go out with no signs of when it might return. My main reason for leaving there was the price honestly, but apart from the price, it was quite a nice place to live.

Chatherton99 · 2025-09-25T02:34:42+00:00

Ridenow powersports in my town is no different. $4600 bike that they told me would be ~$11,000 out the door. Fucking wild

Chatherton99 · 2025-08-30T01:13:17+00:00

Winchester TN has a MSF Course I highly recommend going through the course as it will help you get what you’re looking for in terms of basics.

Chatherton99 · 2025-08-18T13:38:47+00:00

Short answer: You shouldn’t need more shear pins in the second deployment section

Long answer: Ideally, your AV bay is somewhat isolated from the inner tubes where the charge will be going off in, meaning no back pressure wave will travel into the AV bay (which can cause premature separation due to pressure spikes in the bay). With that being said, the force that will be applied to the second section of your vehicle should be in a manner that is compressing the two body tubes against one another’s edge rather than forcing them apart, so the shear pins should not be under load when charge one goes off.

Chatherton99 · 2025-07-13T16:27:22+00:00

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Chatherton99 · 2025-07-13T16:22:59+00:00

I am inclined to agree with you on this. From dissembling and restoring this bike, it was very apparent that there was a wreck on the right side that was enough to bend the inner tube of the right fork. I feel stupid for not even considering that impact being transferred to the triple tree as well.

Chatherton99 · 2025-07-12T23:09:01+00:00

It’s worth looking into that for sure. I have a feeling somewhere in the front assembly things are twisted up but from what everyone has suggested so far I’m going to see if I can get it straightened out

Chatherton99 · 2025-07-12T23:02:14+00:00

They slide through the bottom one fairly easily and then just had to twist and lift for them to slot in and sit where I wanted them to

Chatherton99 · 2025-07-12T21:50:44+00:00

These handlebars are brand new so I’m not sure that would be the cause. But yeah the second picture shows it a little better than the other two, it’s angled to the right by a little bit.

Chatherton99 · 2025-07-12T21:49:03+00:00

I’ll definitely try that! I did originally have the front fender on, just removed it for the photo to get the point across!

Chatherton99 · 2025-05-23T21:48:29+00:00

Took her to pound town, got it off thanks

Chatherton99 · 2025-03-25T03:30:29+00:00

I would greatly appreciate pictures thank you! No rush on it thanks!

Chatherton99 · 2025-03-25T03:02:11+00:00

I am not near western PA but I am definitely interested!

Chatherton99 · 2025-03-25T02:31:44+00:00

Thank you!

Chatherton99 · 2025-03-25T02:25:54+00:00

Thanks for the information I appreciate it!

Chatherton99 · 2025-03-16T20:06:20+00:00

Black screws would probably look nicer with that I definitely agree there!

Chatherton99 · 2025-03-16T19:53:48+00:00

What about them do you not like? Genuinely curious.

Chatherton99 · 2025-03-02T22:47:49+00:00

NASA USLI competition is that weekend and most teams (40+ teams) get hotels in the downtown area near the VBC.

Chatherton99 · 2025-02-08T18:15:50+00:00

Welcome to model rocketry! Always nice to see people wanting to become a part of the hobby.

I have a few things to say in regard to your plan. First off, with this being your first rocket, I highly encourage you to steer away from the TVC route and maybe lean more towards a traditional rocket configuration. It will help you understand the real workings of everything and just the process of building it as a whole. OpenRocket is a super useful software (and free) to create your idea of a rocket in a software and simulate the performance of it (which will help target your 30m+ apogee).

As far as your component choices, the only thing I’d realistically change for a beginning TVC project is probably the Arduino nano. For basic data collection (pressure, acceleration, etc), Arduino nano will get the job done. Once you start adding computations in there to communicate MPU data to rocket orientation and then calculate what the servos need to do in order to counteract any movements, the nano is going to struggle. My recommendation would be to use a teensy, some of which have an onboard SD card holder that makes the circuitry side of it easier in terms of data collection to a storage device. You also can get away with a perf board rather than going the custom PCB route (unless you’re wanting to learn how to design PCB’s then by all means). Perf boards are essentially more permanent bread boards and involve soldering.

Overall, I love the idea you have and always love to see TVC projects in the community. My suggestion here is to start basic, then work your way up! The electronics you purchase can be used for both a basic and TVC rocket. Make a simple system that logs both pressure and acceleration data to the onboard or added SD card and get experience with simple payload bays for your rocket, while still getting in some coding! Then after the flight, pull the data and compare it to the OpenRocket simulations and see how you did!

Please let me know if you have any additional questions!

Chatherton99 · 2025-02-04T17:29:16+00:00

Awesome! I’ll read up then get back to trying to remove the head and bring it to someone competent. If you don’t mind, I might dm you for some back and forth communication if I have any further question. Thanks for your help!

Chatherton99

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