Drowning Minds - Sanding, sanding, and more sanding!

Well like I promised, I would post more photos and updates on our rocket project. Today after classes I went in and did a fair amount of sanding. We had already done some bondo work, and now to clean up our mess on the first section. And boy was it a mess.

Now, the amount shown here took me nearly two hours to do. But trust me, its damn smooth!

As you can see, further down we got really careless when applying the Bondo... Unfortunately, I started on the easy side.

So now you can see just how much I really have left to go on the one tube. I've sanded all the way around this near end, but there is plenty more to be done. The reason for the Bondo is to fill the seams and clean up any rough areas in of the tube. This will allow for a very clean application of paint later.

Here are two more "sections" of the rocket that still need to have their seams filled in, sanded, primed, and painted. We have a lot of work left to do, but I'm really excited with how well it's going so far, and how much we've acomplished already.

I may try to get a few more photos of the trailer. There was a student that is also working on the project (mostly planning, designing) who came in and snapped a few photos while I was welding. If I can get them, I'll toss them up on here.

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