Motor test CMT0801 picture page
Elco Lagendijk assembles the test stand.
When assembling the test stand its centre part needs to be lifted off the ground, hence the use of the weights.
Vincent Kouer and Peter Heeren test fit the test motor parts.
The safety membrane and its clamp.
Vincent Kouer applied liberal amounts of wolfram carbide coating on the O-rings and other places.
The prepared top part of the test motor.
Peter Heeren alternates sliding the grains and spacer rings in the test motor.
Peter Heeren secures the test motor with good solid nuts.
Elco Lagendijk secures the thrust meter.
Vincent Kouer and Peter Heeren are placing the test motor in the test stand.
Peter Leemker is adjusting the covered recording systems, while apart from the igniter the test motor is set to go.
The test just after ignition.
The test at its peak, with nice white smoke, indicating optimal use of the propellant.
A little later in the test (seen from another angle).
The last bit of propellant is burning here.
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Video footage of the motor test.
Video footage of the motor test.
The pressure curve of CMT0801.
The test stand just after the test.
The smoke deflector, as was expected, suffered where the flow hits the curved part.
The only problem with the new test stand was a very minor leakage at the safety membrane.
The bottom suspension of the test motor. As seen here, the smoke deflector worked very well.
Residue in the smoke deflector.
After the test we were very anxious to see the test results and after a while Peter Leemker could show them.
Bringing back the test stand to a paved area for disassembly.
The nozzle after the test.
The very little indented safety membrane, its clamp and its insulation.
