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TIP: Champagne Flute Nose Cones Part 1 (2011-01-25)
If you're like me, whenever I'm stuck shopping I always look for things that could be made into a rocket. Today I was at the Dollar Tree store. I walked past the Valentines Day junk and saw this ... [Read More]
TIP: Champagne Flute Nose Cones Part 2 (2011-02-04)It's the fourth of February, you have ten days to pick up some of these from the Dollar Tree store before they remove them from the shelves on Valentines Day! To see the first part of the cheap nose ... [Read More]
TIP: Champagne Flute Nose Cones Part 3 (2011-02-05)To make the shoulder (or coupler) cut a 1 3/4" length of the main airframe tube. Cut a line through and straight down the length of the tube. Set this split tube into the nose cone allowing it to ... [Read More]
TIP: Champagne Flute Nose Cone Part 4 (2011-02-05)After a little sanding with 220 sandpaper on a block, I got a tight butt joint if the cut shoulder piece sides. I would probably rough up the inside walls of the plastic and epoxy the shoulder into ... [Read More]
TIP: Champagne Flute Nose Cone Part 5 (2011-02-08)From gagreen on TRF : "got mine today great find... has anyone else notices that removing the heart and a little sanding to the base and stem make a pretty good looking display for mmx rockets?" ... [Read More]
Valentines Flute Glass Nose Cones (2012-01-11)To get ready for the next build (and to buy some really cheap 50mm plastic nose cones) check this EBAY listing click HERE These were on sale at the Dollar Stores last year, but I've yet to see them ... [Read More]
Polishing Plastic? Tips (2015-07-29)Dale Bills wrote: Chris, I searched your building blog for any mention of how to polish and buff plastic parts such as the fins and nose cone in the Estes Pro Series II E2X ... [Read More]
Cheap Egg Nose Cones and Payload Section (2016-03-27)Happy Easter Today - These go on sale tomorrow! Cheap, smooth, bulbous payload nose cones. While you can't usually find a body tube that fits the upper half, glue a coupler on the bottom to ... [Read More]
No More Balsa Nose Cones? (2017-01-11)A YORF post from John Boren of Estes: "Estes hasn't made a NEW balsa nose cone in over six years now. All the balsa cones in kits today are from stock we are trying to use up. We no ... [Read More]
Nose Cone Shoulder Rounding - TIP (2017-05-04)Some of the balsa nose cones I get have sharp square shoulders. Don't insert these into body tubes until you've rounded the ends. A square shoulder nose cone can damage the tube ends sometimes ... [Read More]
Apogee Vacu-Form Nose Cone Fix (2018-06-19)I bought two packages of vacu-form nose cones from Apogee. There are three nose cones in each package for six nose cones in total. I wanted to use these in my NARAM competition models. Five out ... [Read More]
Discontinued Centuri 1974 Plastic Nose Cones? (2020-04-28)The question came up on Y.O.R.F. - Why did Centuri discontinue some of the plastic nose cones in 1974? Some posts wondered why later run kits included longer nose cones, instead of the shorter ... [Read More]
Clay Weight? TIP (2020-07-02)On TRF, the question came up about different clay used for nose weight, inside plastic nose cones. On TRF, JQAvins wrote: The little Estes squares seem to be almost the same as Plasticine modeling ... [Read More]
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