New .625 parts

[Tweeker]

  Now that we have proper .625 SRBs the rest of the .0625 parts need a little attention, 

The Oscar-b is a nice fuel tank, but you have to stack up far too many. It would be nice to have 2X, 4X and 8X length versions.

The TK-38 radial decoupler is nice, but when attaching more than 4 of them on a .625 core, such as 8 mites around a stack of Oscar-b tanks, they tend to get caught on the adjacent tanks when decoupling.  So it would be nice to have a 1/2 or 1/3 width coupler

So you end up dragging  the booster you just jettisoned. 

A set of  landing legs and a solar panel sized to mount radially  on a .625 core would be nice as well. 

 

 

 

Edited October 23, 2019 by Tweeker
mispell

[Guest]

Well, believe it or not, the extant small landing legs are designed for .625m landers. People just keep using them on 1.25m ships to save mass, and if you add some even lighter legs they'll use those on them too, appropriacy be damned.

[PositronLance001]

On 10/23/2019 at 12:43 PM, Rocket Witch said:

Well, believe it or not, the extant small landing legs are designed for .625m landers. People just keep using them on 1.25m ships to save mass, and if you add some even lighter legs they'll use those on them too, appropriacy be damned.

good point. They're cheap, light, and OK to use. Also if you're playing career or science, they are low on the tech tree, and are cheap.

 

[Tweeker]

On 10/23/2019 at 12:43 PM, Rocket Witch said:

Well, believe it or not, the extant small landing legs are designed for .625m landers. People just keep using them on 1.25m ships to save mass, and if you add some even lighter legs they'll use those on them too, appropriacy be damned.

 

On 10/29/2019 at 7:21 PM, PositronLance001 said:

good point. They're cheap, light, and OK to use. Also if you're playing career or science, they are low on the tech tree, and are cheap.

 

I thought about it, and built a few probes,  and from my experience, 

They are still the heaviest {Fuel excluded} part you will put on a small probe, 

If you Build a small probe consisting of:

1) an HCES or OCTO core, 

2) a z-100 battery. 

3) an OX-Sat  solar panel, 

4) an Oscar-B fuel tank. 

5) An Ant engine

6) A thermometer, seismometer, a barometer, and a Gravioli detector, 

7)  Communotron 16

8)  3 ea LT-05 Micro Landing Struts.

 

3 struts are the least you are going to use,  and the struts weight  .045 for 3. 

this is more than any other part , except the probe core. 

 

The struts are the most expensive parts in terms of delta-v cost,  and they are oversized in this application. 

You are actually better off using Cubic Octagonal Struts as landing legs. 

I actually use the  LT-05 struts on my manned landers,  

 

[Fierce Wolf]

Lets not lose focus: a 4 in 1 Oscar tank would be super nice

[PositronLance001]

and so would tiny fins. I like building mini-rockets, but the only fins small enough are the basic ones, and those offer no control and look ugly. should be high tech tree for miniaturization though.

[Fierce Wolf]

1 hour ago, PositronLance001 said:

mini-rockets

....mini-rockets...in MY KSP? How dare you!

[PositronLance001]

3 hours ago, Fierce Wolf said:

....mini-rockets...in MY KSP? How dare you!

They're suborbital only, and can barely make it into space.

 

[Noud]

use the RLA-stockalike mod it has every 0.625 part you will ever need (I my opinion) 

look at this!

https://imgur.com/a/xJFxC

downside is that ever sins squad is updating there models and textures they don't look very stock alike any more...

 

 

[Tweeker]

I have used them extensively, 

but like most mod packs, there are part I use and parts I don't

so the parts tabs become cluttered. 

I stripped the mod pack down, but the fact remains, these could stand to be added to stock