Overview of Components
- Off-the-shelf 6" fiberglass nosecone
- Stainless steel tip
- Ablative coating
- Various fixtures [citation needed]
Machining the Nosecone to Proper Dimensions
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Ablative Application
- We did several ablative tests to come up with a workable recipe and application procedure, in response to a general unhappiness with last year's finish
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- Instead of sanding down the ablative layer by hand, as we have done previously, we instead elected to wildly over-apply ablative, and remove the excess on a lathe