My new restoration project, not a car!

[rocketpowered_keith]

It's a LR-105!

Sorry, I meant to post this in Free parking. I'm a tool. I will have to do some fab on it though, I'm tooling up to bend and flare tube to replace some damaged lines.

 

[930dreamer]

Cool, more information please, Atlas?

 

[e-tek]

what the hell is it??

 

[rocketpowered_keith]

Cool, more information please, Atlas?

Exactly correct. Atlas sustainer. You can wikipedia the basics, but this is the sustainer engine for the Atlas SM-65 ICBM. This engine started along with the two boosters and continued running after the booster engines dropped off.

This example is missing pumps and the injector. I probably won't ever find any other spare parts, but I'm intending on restoring what is there.

First disassembly, then a strip and repaint of the chamber, and reassembly after polishing/cleaning all of the accessories that I do have.

 

[rocketpowered_keith]

Since this should probably be in free parking, can a moderator move it?

 

[e-tek]

Where did you find it - Rockets R Us??

 

[rocketpowered_keith]

These types of things are quite rare. I've been interested in rockets for a long time, and never seen one available until this one.

There is a store which could be called Rockets R Us. It's called Norton Sales, North Hollywood. They have a website, but if you are in the area, its a wonderful surplus place.

 

[loudrango]

cool project!

 

[jabberwoki]

WOW thats the coolest trinket ive ever seen !!! Please more pictures.

 

[Brad54]

That's a loooong way to go for a marshmallow roaster!

-Brad

 

[bjaspud]

My first reaction is 'man, everyone needs to own one of those' ....cool.

Then I thought, 'man, would that send my wife over the edge if I drug that monster home'.

Personally I think you need to fab that beast into a kick **** melt-the-snow-from-your-driveway machine. You'll be the envy of the neighborhood.

Oh well. Thanks for sharing. It's nice to dream.

Enjoy!

 

[Kevin54]

Salvage I Andy Griffith reincarnated.

Okay....a few questions. What the hell does something like that cost, what do you do with it when you get it restored, and what is it worth restored.

And hell yea it's rare. It's not like you can pick one of them up anywhere. I very seriously doubt if there are any around Ohio, so that only leaves 49 other places to look

 

[rocketpowered_keith]

My first reaction is 'man, everyone needs to own one of those' ....cool.

Then I thought, 'man, would that send my wife over the edge if I drug that monster home'.


My wife is very understanding, to say the least. And, it occupies a corner of manland (garage!) so it doesn't affect the household.

A friend suggested placing a plant on top and calling it a planter.

I tell people I'm going to the moon, and this is the first part of my spaceship.

Keith

 

[rocketpowered_keith]

Salvage I Andy Griffith reincarnated.

Okay....a few questions. What the hell does something like that cost, what do you do with it when you get it restored, and what is it worth restored.

And hell yea it's rare. It's not like you can pick one of them up anywhere. I very seriously doubt if there are any around Ohio, so that only leaves 49 other places to look

what do you do with it once restored? Look at it. A monster of this size is far too large to fire. At about 60,000 Lbs of thrust, it would require more liquid oxygen and kerosene than I have money.

 

[930dreamer]

what do you do with it once restored? Look at it. A monster of this size is far too large to fire. At about 60,000 Lbs of thrust, it would require more liquid oxygen and kerosene than I have money.

Never say never.

AKA: LR105-7.
Status: Out of production.
Height: 2.69 m (8.82 ft).
Diameter: 3.05 m (10.00 ft).
Thrust: 386.40 kN (86,866 lbf).
Specific impulse: 316 s.
Specific impulse sea level: 220 s.
Burn time: 266 s.
Vague: 1960.
Number: 50 .



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[JamieK]

I'm guessing your neighborhood doesn't have a HOA!

 

[CrashTestDummy]

Cut a hole in the garage door, paint a vertical line from top to bottom that passes through the hole (like the door will split vertically) and bolt the tail cone to the outside of the door.

Then see how long it takes for the neighbor across the street to move out.

Nice!

Gene Beaird,
Pearland, Texas

 

[rocketpowered_keith]

I'm guessing your neighborhood doesn't have a HOA!

It does have a HOA, but they don't regulate what is INSIDE my garage. The engine is about 8' tall, and sits by the inside steps into the house from the garage. The exit cone is 4' in diameter exactly to give you a sense of scale.

930Dreamer- That's the engine I have, but I've been quoting the 60K lbf stat for thrust because that's what it makes at sea level. In vacuum it's much higher.

-Keith

 

[Lippyp]

Cool, my dad used to work on the stuff that went on the pointy end (well not on the Atlas but on the Polaris and Trident as well as the dumb ones that get dropped from planes)

 

[tyrell2004]

There is a store which could be called Rockets R Us. It's called Norton Sales, North Hollywood. They have a website, but if you are in the area, its a wonderful surplus place.

One of my favorite places to go when I used to buy props and set dressing for movies. I'd get lost in there for hours of what if............

ps. try liquidoxygen.com for ..you might get lucky...

I'd go to mojave and help ya launch........too lol

 

[GarageEnvy]

Let me be the first to propose a group project for the gj members. I think we could collectively buy an old Impala and breathe some reality into the urban legend about the rocket powered car in Arizona that impaled itself into the cliff.

 

[JC23]

Is this where you say it's made by ACME and is guaranteed to catch road runners?

It reminds me of the Darwin Award for the guy who put a JATO bottle on his '62 Chevy. All they found was pieces parts on the side of a mountain and I wondered if it was a gearhead I knew.

 

[evintho]

Get an old beat up stationwagon and mount it in the back with the thruster hanging out the rear window.

 

[v7guy]

land speed record?
http://www.sonicwind.com/historyofFreedom LSRV.htm

 

[rocketpowered_keith]

land speed record?
http://www.sonicwind.com/historyofFreedom LSRV.htm

That's the only other LR-105 I know of in private hands, and now it's all cut up. I wish him luck, but Waldo Stakes is a dreamer.

That's not a criticism of the man, but of the scope of his ambitions. He needs a lot of money to make any one of those projects happen. I certainly don't have that kind of money.

 

[Lippyp]

land speed record?
http://www.sonicwind.com/historyofFreedom LSRV.htm

Its gonna get beaten to it by Bloodhound SSC, a combination of rocket and the jet engine from a Eurofighter Typhoon, designed ultimately to hit mach 1.4!

http://www.bloodhoundssc.com/car.cfm

 

[CouchSpring]

looks like something from dr. who.

 

[fergus]

My first reaction is 'man, everyone needs to own one of those' ....cool.

Then I thought, 'man, would that send my wife over the edge if I drug that monster home'.

Is this where you say it's made by ACME and is guaranteed to catch road runners?

I nearly spit my coffee all over the screen...twice. One of these is going into my sig.

 

[ironheadtom]

I'd like to bolt that thing to the side of my car and next time a wanna-be gangster pulls up next to me with a bumping stereo ........ ****!

 

[Bionic]

Its gonna get beaten to it by Bloodhound SSC, a combination of rocket and the jet engine from a Eurofighter Typhoon, designed ultimately to hit mach 1.4!

http://www.bloodhoundssc.com/car.cfm

Bahh go the aussies!!
http://www.aussieinvader.com/