02 Baffle Chamber
I cut down the tube coupler to a 3 inch length, and added some one inch spacers to the bottom. Then added my first and second baffle plates. The spacers are just chunks of bamboo skewers, such as you might get from a grocery store.
The skewers split very easily with a hobby knife, the purpose of which is to give them a flat side to glue onto the tube.
This first baffle plate will be exposed to the main of the explosive charge, so I superglued and epoxied it into place. I only used the 5 minute epoxy here, however, just to save some time and to make sure it didn’t run away from me. After it was cured, I crammed the second baffle plate down on top of the spacers, with the vent holes 90 degrees out of phase.
The idea being to let the ejection charge pressure through, but not the parachute melting sparks. Once this was positioned, I saturated the edge with some medium thickness superglue–no epoxy this time to save on weight. It’s not going anywhere.
Titus and I were working pretty closely on it around this time. He agreed that the superglue would be enough to fix the second baffle in place.
If you look closely at the above shot, you can see the first baffle plate’s vent through the second plate. Unfortunately, I have yet to receive my shipment from RedArrow…so I’m out of bulkhead plates. I’ll have to move on to the fins.
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