Originally Posted by Shreadvector

Yes, the Pitsco rockets are crap.

I drove to San Diego and bought 400 of them for our club through an online school surplus auction site.

The version I got is the one with an actual body tube. I have also seen the 'roo your own' tube version at the Columbia Science Center and was even more dissapointed in it (and in the competecny of the science center staff for selecting such a POS).

The one's I got had no instructions and did have the Estes A8-3 motor attached in a tiny bag. I figured out what needed to be done to make them work and our club president whipped up excellent written isntructions for them. We replaced the shock cord and provided a normal shock cord anchor (any style of "normal" will work). Also, you do need to use needle nose plyers to install the tiny screw eye. AND you have to wrap the outside of the centering rings with paper to get them to fit properly.

See the attached instructions. We named it in a club committee meeting at Jack-In-The-Box based upon the Big Bertha-ish fin profile.

Originally Posted by mojo1986

Yes, those are nice instructions. You should consider sending them to Pitsco...........I think they are still selling that kit.