How Do I keep sepatrons from destroying my parts?

[nhnifong]

I use the little solid boosters to pull heavy spent stages away from my rocket. Because if a heavy part so much as touches another heavy part one of them will be destroyed. However it's sort of a catch 22 because my tanks in the middle (not the spent ones) are destroyed by the exhaust from the sepatrons (little boosters)I have to point the exhaust from the little boosters at my rocket, to thrust the spent stages away from it.

Sorry no pics yet.

If anyone has a clever solution to this, please post.

[thevegimobil]

Hold shift and the movement keys in the vab... Rotate them at smaller increments... So they go up and away...also consider the Srb centre of mass so put them just above middle on the Srb so they don't spin back into you engine

[sal_vager]

You could use them in pairs as well, both sides of your booster as well as top and bottom, that way the thrust will go to the sides of your center stack instead of into them

[OceanFire]

You could place them farther down so then don't overheat the tanks (if there's room), or put them on the non-spent rule tanks (facing away from the pod) but this could distupt your orbit. Hope you find solution to your problem!

[nhnifong]

I just discovered I can use inwardly pointed sepatrons to destroy every part in a stage and make it disappear. I might have to use this to make a rocket that hollows itself out from the inside.

[khearn]

I've put seperatrons on the top of 6 tanks around a central stage, with the seperatrons all pointing just to the side of the central stage. When they fire, the tops of the side tanks move out and clockwise, like a flower opening its petals. The central rocket just shoots out the middle. Sometimes the tanks hit each other afterwards, but it's been pretty reliable for getting the central stage out safely.