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Old 06-03-2013, 09:10 PM
stefanj stefanj is offline
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That's really cool, Gus! That's an interesting way to pack the "hardware."

Around 73, I bought a Centuri launch outfit, sans rocket as I recall, at a garage sale. It came with that asbestos-topped wooden pad. I remember pinching off little bits of the strange fibrous stuff . . .

In the late 80s, I bought a partial box of those launch lead /deflector assemblies. They were high up on a shelf in the same hardware / variety store where I bought rockets as a little kid. There were three or four of them left in the black and orange box. I had plans to recreate pads with them, but I ended up liquidating them with much of my old rocket stuff when I moved west.
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