Nuclear engines exploderizing each other?

[tstehler1]

Hey everyone,

I love the new quad-coupler, and I've been trying to develop a four-engine stage for an interplanetary probe I'm working on. The problem is that when I put decouplers on the set of engines, it adds those dang fairings. When I press the button to ignite the nukes, the fairings break off and and slam into the engine opposite them, everything goes boom, and I'm left with a giant pile of fuel tanks and no engines.

Anyone know how to avoid this? Is there a way to disable these fairings?

Thanks in advance! Cheers

Edited September 6, 2013 by tstehler1

[Killerdude8]

This is indeed a pickle, My reccommendation, Radially mount the stages after it.

[Specialist290]

This one's come up a few times before. Use the Q and E keys to rotate your LV-Ns by 90 degrees or so. That should cause the fairings to eject safely away from the other engines.

[Johnno]

Here's some image tutorials I made. I'm starting to get tired of repeating myself, suppose I should make a tutorial post in the tutorials section and just copy paste the link.

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For tri-coupler rotate engines 90° so fairing seam faces outward. For quad-coupler rotate engines 45° so that the seam faces outward.

[RSwordsman]

^^Too bad it has to be a workaround for the unfavorable construction system, but that is awesome. I'll definitely have to apply this to something soon.