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| Our first Espresso images come from the daughter
of Steve Kristal, Emma. Per a thread on the Rocketry Forum, Steve (aka: Gus) made this entry: Emma's Science Day Project
Every year I do a rocket launch for
Science Day at my daughter's school.
This year my daughter Emma, a fourth grader, offered to build some of the rockets herself
(she's pretty good at building rockets).
The rocket we decided to add to our lineup was the Fliskits Espresso. We thought the
goofiness of the foam cup idea would appeal to the kids.
Since I do five classes in a row and there isn't time to reload rockets between classes,
we have to build five of any rocket we add to our launch lineup. Ease (and in this case
fun) of build and reasonable cost were big factors going for the Espresso as well.
Emma built all five Espressos, and man did she do a fantastic job!
Per a recent email from Steve, he said:
"The best fun-value-per-dollar of any
kit on the market"
Emma did an incredible job building this Skill Level 2 kit.
Not only that, she built FIVE of them! This isn't just an indication of how
easy it is to build foam cup rockets. It's proof positive that Emma has earned the
title of "Rocket Scientist", in my book! Good job!
Steve's captions can be seen with the photo's that he sent
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<< Here's a picture of the
kits as we started
First up was to build the motor mounts. Since
these are rear-ejection, they were different and fun to build. >> |
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<< Next was cutting out the
fins. Mom was a little nervous about Emma using the X-Acto but, unbeknownst to Mom,
Emma has already had a fair amount of experience cutting fins.
She did a great job especially considering we accidentally made 20 instead of the 15 we
really needed. No cut fingers, perfect fins, and one very (deservedly) proud fourth graderNext came preparing the fin cans. This involves
cutting holes in the tops of 3 of the cups, and hot-gluing the cups to the motor mount.
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<< Next up was spray
painting the fins. You have to do this before you glue them in since the spray paint
might melt the Styrofoam cups. Here Emma displays her technique with 3 fins taped to
a bamboo skewer. The nice part
about doing 5 rockets at once is you can mass process, and experiment a bit. Here
are the completed fins. >> |
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<< After they dry, the fin
root gets white glue and the fins get placed in the fin can. Here Emma prepares one
of the fins with glue, with the partially completed fin can nearby. After all three
fins are in, hot-glue fillets are added. Finished fin cans and motor mounts awaiting the rest of the upper cups.
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<< Emma adds the upper cups.
All that remained was to hot-glue the launch
lugs in place and we were done. Well, actually, Emma reminded me we weren't done.>>
"Dad, they're not rockets until you
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We couldn't
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