Ye Olde Rocket Forum

Go Back   Ye Olde Rocket Forum > The Golden Age of Model Rocketry > Plans & Publications
User Name
Password
Auctions Register FAQ Members List Calendar Today's Posts Search Mark Forums Read


 
 
Thread Tools Search this Thread Display Modes
Prev Previous Post   Next Post Next
  #22  
Old 01-15-2019, 11:04 AM
Tau Zero's Avatar
Tau Zero Tau Zero is offline
Incurable SEMROC Fan
 
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Twin Falls, Idaho, USA
Posts: 2,318
Talking

Quote:
Originally Posted by blackshire
Looking at the catalog illustration of the Mini-Dactyl (see: http://www.ninfinger.org/rockets/no...a/73cen00c.html ), I was certain that it used the PNC-54 nose cone (see: http://www.ninfinger.org/rockets/no...a/73cen060.html ), the same one that was used in the Star Trooper kit (Estes' 4:1 tangent ogive BT-5 nose cone, used in their Gnome kit, is virtually identical). But to my surprise, the Mini-Dactyl used a balsa nose cone that--if I recall the thread about it correctly--was *only* used in that kit (it *may* have been the BC-50 http://www.ninfinger.org/rockets/no...a/73cen060.html ). I ordered a few duplicate Mini-Dactyl balsa nose cones from Semroc a few years ago, and they looked almost nothing like the nose cone in the Mini-Dactyl catalog illustration.
I have a Centuri Mini-Dactyl kit that I got from Don Fent about ten years ago. The nose cone is equivalent to Semroc's BC-515E (1.5" elliptical), and Carl McLawhorn posted elsewhere that this was the only kit that used this particular nose cone.

I agree, the catalog photo shows a 2.2" long PNC-54, which I much prefer aesthetically.

In cases like this, I find myself wanting to recreate the catalog pictures instead of the actual kit. Case in point? Three pointy Semroc BC-517 pod cones on the Centuri Taurus instead of the PNC-51s.

Cheers,
__________________
Jay Goemmer
"Centuri Guy"/"Tau Zero"
YORF Member 28
Semroc SAM #0029
NAR 86131


"I think about organizing things all the time. Never seems to happen. I find something that piques my interest and I'm off on a quest. Or a Centuri. "

--Bill Eichelberger, 02/22/2022


“Centuri fret buzz in an updated form.”
Bill “Wallyum” Eichelberger re: Estes Flutter-By
03 Sept 2014
Reply With Quote
 


Thread Tools Search this Thread
Search this Thread:

Advanced Search
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

vB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Forum Jump



All times are GMT -5. The time now is 05:02 PM.


Powered by: vBulletin Version 3.0.7
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Ye Olde Rocket Shoppe © 1998-2024