Shock Cord & Nose Cones of Model Rockets

Video Transcript

"Now what we'll do is, we now have a nose cone and a parachute assembled. Next thing we're going to do is attach the main rocket to the nose clone via the shock cord. To do that, you take the shock cord and the nose cone, previously where we had attached the parachute. We will now attach the shock cord. And you take the shock cord and you put it into the gap that we cut out to provide enough lanyard, or enough shock cord on one side. You simply tie it together. To tie, it's in kind of a knot because this is elastic and it's going to cinch down so pretty good, and usually with this type of model, except for that mistake, usually with his kind of model what happens is it will, make sure you don't get tied up with the shock cords, or with the lanyards with the parachute. This type of model does not need much of a length of a shock cord or much of a strength to hold the two together because it's not really a high powered rocket. We'll talk about high powered rocket assembly later which is a lot different than this. These are basically for children or adults to have fun with and to just fly. So now we have a completed model rocket set where you have the rocket body, the engine mount tube, parachute and nose cone, and all assembled."