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