Will Estes rocket engines work with Quest rockets?
Mar 20, 2009 by Person M | Posted in Hobbies & Crafts
I just bought a Quest Rocket, and it has a different type of mounting for the engine. It also requires a different ignition process than Estes rockets, but will my Estes engines be able to set up without buying anything from quest?
Yes, Estes engines will work, and you shouldn't have to modify anything to get them to fit, as model rocket motors are all standard sizes and lengths. You can also mix and match igniters (Estes igniters with Quest motors and vice versa).
loopy_markvan | Mar 24, 2009
Homemade rockets explode with Estes engines"2007 Edition"
Four homemade rockets fired into the abyss. They explode at 800 feet plus. The last rocket misfires. Enjoy.
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Our experiments with stomp rockets (which arrived Christmas day) went well. But foamy flying rockets that could reach a lofty altitude around 150 feet only served to fuel Juan Carlos’ desire to shoot some ‘real’ rockets even higher into the sky. That meant sooner or later some flying model rockets would have to put in an appearance.
My original plan was to hold off on an introduction to model rocketry for a couple more years. I was around 7 or 8 when my Dad and I flew our first model rockets — and I managed to have a lot of fun without blowing myself up. So that seemed like a good age for a start.
But kids these days have to get a head start on just about everything, don’t they? I came home from work one day last month to find Juan Carlos out on the back deck building what he called a “bottle rocket”. He was taking pieces of his various toy rocket rigs and duct-taping them to plastic water bottles.В While I was gratified to see that he’s absorbed the appropriate manly duct-taping skill, I knew his plan to ‘light the rocket fuel’ would lead to nothing but disappointment.
So I explained to him that water by itself won’t work as a rocket fuel. He countered that was OK: He would just drain off the water, put some matches in the bottle and then light them.
Holy crap. I’m raising a pyromaniac.
Well, maybe not a pyromaniac — but he can be very stubborn when he gets something in his head. I realized right then and there that it was time to improvise, adapt and overcome. I would either have to roll out a flying model rocket, or lock down everything flammable in the house and keep a constant watch on my inventive young man for the next six weeks.
So. Our swamp Bunker gets the addition of a spaceport a couple years ahead of schedule. Haven’t I written somewhere before that I’m really not in charge of planning around here?
The one thing that concerned me was that Juan Carlos had put his personal space program on something of a ‘rush’ timeline. He wanted to send a rocket into the swamposphere by the weekend, which gave me about 4 more days to get it going.
