So today my 3d printed parts arrived which was awesome, My Body tube had also arrived a while before that so I got to assembling, I first started with the landing mount and assemebled using m3 screws, I used nylon for most of them and heat set inserts but I might switch to steel screws, I used some rubberbands I had lying around and tested wheter it works and it did kinda? there was a weird issue where the whole rocket tilted a little and put all the weight on 3 legs instead of 4, This was probably because of warp in the 3d print probably, I added some blue painter tape to the edges to help with this

Another thing I found was that the landing legs themselves acted as a spring, When you dropped it from a certain height or put enough pressure the leg itself bent. I actually like this accidental design because it helps with softer landings

The TVC mount was where I messed up. I realized that I hadn’t left space for the bottom y axis mount to move the way it should and structurally there were some issues also, to solve this I used a soldering iron to melt at the plastic and created a messy area for it the move and that helped pretty well, I have to redesign this in v2. Besides that I also forgot to tell my printer I needed my avionics bay printed and that I needed 2 tvc rockets not one, so i’ve decided that I’m going to focus more on getting one succesful flight up and parachute or do something like bps space did with echo and drop the rocket from a drone at high altitudue and try to land it (this is probably what im going to do). The rest of my parts are going arrive in the coming week but school also started so progress will be slow.