I used all the tools I created to make a set of dummy motors- motors without any oxidizer but otherwise exactly to spec. This serves two purposes. First: it allowed me to make sure that I haven’t forgotten anything and that my tooling is complete and I’ll be able to make motors out in the desert when the time comes. Second: it allows me to have a motor that I can stick into rockets in order to get them correctly balanced so that they are stable, without having to deal with any flammability concerns. It’s really starting to hit me just how much larger these are then the motors I used in my youth. On the far left is an Estes A size motor (same as the size B and C) for scale. My motors are (from left to right) size C, D, D, E, E, and F respectively.
