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Old 01-11-2019, 11:18 PM
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Default It’s easy from here....

Then, tape the end of the streamer to the middle of the shock cord and tie the other end to the nose cone (actually the instructions have this done before putting in the shock cord retainer).

After the shock cord and streamer are done the instructions have you put in the thrust ring. Since I didn’t have the folded cardstock “tool” I just did it with a yellow spacer tube that was laying around from some Estes kit or other.

After that, the launch lug, nestled in a fin-to-body joint with the lower end flush with the aft end of the body tube.

As you can see from the nose cone-on-body picture, that yellow Apogee nose cone really does fit ST-7 well. The shoulder is a little loose but that’s easy to deal with.

And....it’s structurally done.

As I said above, it was warm enough to spray paint outdoors so there is now a coat of Rusto 2x white primer on the model. I plan to paint it gloss white with an Apple red nose cone and let that cure well before I put on that last-of-its-kind Excelsior decal. So depending on weather.....it may be awhile before the finished product pictures appear here.
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