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Old 01-30-2019, 10:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Tau Zero
Bernard,

After wrestling with the (very rough) attached section, I wish Bill had done it some other way, too.

"If the tube ends in '-J,' that means it's 2.75" long? Say WHAT?"

"And why do the big letters have little (i.e., shorter) tubes?"
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I don’t think Bill will take the blame for the letter suffixes. I always just assumed that this happened the same way the nose cone letters seem to have happened....pretty much when a new size (or shape) was needed they just incremented the letter by one.

Although if that were strictly true I’d expect the body of the K-1 Scout to be BT-30A and the nose cone to be BNC-30A. For the body tube that turns out to be right, but the nose cone is BNC-30D. Oh well....
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