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Old 12-29-2018, 11:35 PM
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OK - well that just proves that I’m not the best with cheap digital calipers.....

Or it was humid and your tubes were retaining water.
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Old 12-30-2018, 12:18 PM
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Are we still talking about rockets?
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Old 12-30-2018, 02:28 PM
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Well.... I was. Not so sure about tbzep.
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Old 12-30-2018, 04:24 PM
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There's your answer...0.035" thick.
FWIW, on the topic of paper tubes, my experience is that the wall thicknesses for all of them are multiples of 0.007 inches, or very close. The tubes tend to be 2 to 7 wraps of paper that thick.

Besides the Estes 3" tube having a wall of 0.035" (5 layers):

o BT-50 is 0.013" (2 layers)
o BT-55 is 0.021" (3 layers)
o LOC 3" is 0.050" (7 layers)

From looking at the data this way, for paper tubes, I conclude you can deduce the number of layers by dividing the wall thickness by 0.007. YMMV.

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Old 12-30-2018, 06:35 PM
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Makes sense
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Old 12-30-2018, 07:15 PM
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That's some good info, Doug !
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Or it was humid and your tubes were retaining water.

I hate it when that happens.
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