10-04-2007, 02:10 PM
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Dazed and Confused
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: TN
Posts: 11,624
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Originally Posted by Shreadvector
They were 30 ga with a thinned area and then sometime in the mid 1970's they stopped making them that way and switched to straight 31 guage with the pyrogen on it. They worked about as well, but the thin section was neat-o since it formed a nice bend easier.
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That would explain why I'm not familiar with the thinned Astrons. I didn't get into rocketry until the mid 70's so I never saw the neato version.  |