TMT Motor Failure Report
If you have a motor failure and there is not a manufacturer's representative
at the launch to help with the post mortem, please enter at a
minimum:
1. Name and contact info of
the person making the motor failure report.
Name_____________________________________________________________________________________________
Address___________________________________________________________________________________________
City_____________________________State_______Zip____________________Country________________________
Phone_______________________Email
Address__________________________________________________________________
2.
Name and contact info of the person who built and flew the motor (if same enter
"same").
Name_____________________________________________________________________________________________
Address___________________________________________________________________________________________
City_____________________________State_______Zip____________________Country________________________
Phone_______________________Email
Address__________________________________________________________________
3. Motor
manufacturer:__________________________________________________________
4.
Motor
designation.___________________________________________________________
5.
Date of incident (what
launch?):_________________________________________________
6. Date of
motor manufacture (This date or code is either on the paper delay cap or on the
instruction sheet included with the motor. This is important to track the
batch.):_____________
7. Describe what happened using as
much detail as possible. (i.e., Any preflight/motor building anomalies,
amount/placement/type of BP/grease/tape used to build motor, "parts all there?",
motor retention/baffle/recovery system used, weight/diameter/length of airframe,
motor delay/electronic ejection, type of igniter used, description of flight
anomaly, post mortem of airframe/motor case condition,
etc.).
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
8.
Was manufacturer contacted and what was the
response.
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
9.
Weather conditions would also be nice. (Was the motor laying out in the sun, was
the motor in a dark airframe on the pad a long time, was the magazine in the
sun/shade/frozen to the ground, was it calm or windy, info like
that.).
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
If
TMT has any remaining questions after all that, TMT would like to be able to
talk to the rocketeer. Please be aware that the purpose of the questions is to
as accurately as possible document the motor failure and background conditions
and track the failure modes/trends for a particular motor. TMT will not be able
to help you get your airframe/motor case replaced, but if a failure mode
stabilizes for a particular motor, TMT will help get the problem fixed with that
motor.
Copy/Paste this document into a word processor, fill in the requested information and attach the document to an email and send it to Tripoli Motor Testing (TMT) Chair: Paul Holmes