The discussion is fine. Often fun.
Jumping to unfounded conclusions can be an issue.
Recommending safety code violations and actions that can damage the club's
launch equipment are a problem.
Due to the current ratio of dozens (or more) successful launches to those with
issues I do not see evidence that there is anything wrong with our launch pads.
Nothing in this discussion has brought up anything that makes me think there
are deficiencies in ROC launch pads or the way they are assembled.
Other questions to consider:
Are the rail buttons properly installed?
Is the rocket large, heavy, or otherwise unsuitable to the size launch lugs
installed?
A very minor amount of breeze on a Hawk model can cause substantial torque on
the rail buttons, and cause massive binding.
Rather than extrapolate issues based on a single event, it makes more sense to
look at the specifics. If a pattern of similar event occurs, then we can look
at root causes. (Some of us have specific training and experience in root cause
analysis.)
A single data point does not define a curve!
So, discussion and debate are fine. But, jumping to conclusions on limited
evidence and recommending poor practices should be avoided.
David P SmithROC Board of DirectorsNAR 78668, TRA 15803, L2Amateur Extra,
W6DPShttp://www.qsl.net/w6dps ;
On Thursday, July 25, 2019, 01:17:52 PM PDT, R Dierking
<applerocketry@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have a question for you all, and please be open and honest. I was
considering just dropping this last night maybe because I thought there might
be some controversy and dropping it would have been much easier. I do have
other interesting things to do.
Should I have posted or not?
Richard
