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Originally Posted by Faithwalker

Hi Earl,
Thank you for your posting with the photo of the addendum that was included in your Centuri KS-19 V-2 kit. My Centuri KS-19 V-2 kit has a similar but different shock cord attachment addendum (photo attached).

Also, I've made another attempt at photographing the Centuri KS-19 V-2 kit plastic nose cone base eyelet area. I don't see any distinctive file marks, but the surface of the original eyelet location is smooth in appearance and to the touch. It is possible that the malformed eyelet nubs could have been cut off with a sharp hobby knife or possibly sanded off with very fine sandpaper.

I'm not the original kit owner. When I purchased the Centuri KS-19 V-2 kit, it was sealed with a piece of clear cellophane packaging tape, so it had been previously opened because the factory packaging staples had been removed. It is unknown whether the malformed original eyelet nubs on the plastic nose cone were removed by Centuri or by someone else, but, other than the missing packaging staples, the kit is pristine with nothing missing and nothing else disturbed or modified (except the anchor ring is intentionally left out due to the shock cord attachment change), so I concluded that Centuri R&D made all the mods to the plastic nose cone base.

You are likely correct that my Centuri KS-19 V-2 kit is one of the earlier versions issued with the plastic nose cone, since it includes a kit specific addendum. Centuri may have made a little more effort to 'clean up' the plastic nose cone eyelet defect on the one I have, if it was issued earlier. By the time they got around to packaging the kit you purchased, they may have made a little less effort to 'clean up' the defect and simply included the more generic addendum that was sort of all encompassing, rather than have several inserts.

Kind regards,
Jeff Jenkins
aka: Faithwalker
NAR #46879 SR

Well, I replied to this message earlier today, but I don’t see it here….hmmm….

Basically, I can see your lug ‘remainders’ are far less than mine, and it does seem they have been either cut or filed down; it seems like I can see two small dark points that would appear to be very small openings into the side of the shoulder.

Your shock cord fastener addendum sheet was used by Centuri for a good number of years in their kits. I recall getting mail order kits from them in the latter 70s that still used that addendum, as the instructions themselves had not yet been updated even though by then that ‘new’ shock cord fastener was pushing 6-7 years old. Some kits, like the MX-774 I don’t think ever had their instructions redone to incorporate that fastener.

So, it does seem like there is/was some variation in how that lug looked on cones that were included in the kit bag, some maybe ‘cleaned up’ a bit by Centuri possibly, some others not. It would be interesting to know if ANY of the cones came out of the mold ok. One would think possibly so; your addendum refers directly to the use of that lug. But, it would seem the ‘bad’ ones must have eventually outnumbered the good ones, and with seemingly no fix to the issue, the cone and the kit were discontinued. Would have made a great general purpose cone for their #16 tube.

In comparison, the other three then-new plastic cones that had that same molded-in lug and all released at basically the same time — the Nike Smoke, Quasar/Super Kits, and the Orion — all went on to fairly long lives.

Earl