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Old 04-03-2019, 09:15 PM
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Originally Posted by blackshire
That is what I'd suspected, as for a while (not long before Centuri went out of business), Centuri was using more and more Estes parts and accessories. Here (see: http://www.spacemodeling.org/jimz/cen5330.htm ) are scans of the Centuri ALCM kit instructions, which include scanned "photocopy-type" pictures of the kit parts. Perhaps these might help enable hand-made, cast resin, or 3D printed duplicate hinges to be made.


And vice-versa.

Two Centuri parts -- both within 2-3 years of their *50th* birthdays -- are the plastic Mercury capsule, still in use by Estes (originally first released by Centuri in early '71 in the Centuri Mercury-Redstone kit); and the Enerjet 1340 plastic fin can, originally released around 1972 in the 1340 and within a year of that in the Centuri Argus kit and later Phoenix Bird, used in several Estes kits over the years since and most recently in the Estes Eliminator.

Pretty good success story for both those parts.


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