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Old 06-08-2021, 10:17 PM
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I LIKED the "Model Aircraft Parts" shipment method that was previously used.
Motors should have ZERO shipment regulations.
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Old 06-30-2021, 04:43 PM
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I don't know if Euclid made them or not, but they were capable of doing it. You could order up just about anything from them.


CMR tubes were made by Stone Industries and were "wet" wrapped not "dry" wrapped like Euclid tubes.
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Old 07-26-2021, 05:11 PM
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I cloned a MRI Lepus a few years ago, using the cone from my old MRI "Flare" and an actual MPC body tube. Sturdy as heck; I finally launched it on a C6-7 and it plain disappeared.

I have enough Semroc parts to make a couple of Lepus and Zeus clones. I believe I gave a set to SEL as well.
Balsa Machining Service (BMS), Semroc, and Quest--between them--have most if not all of the original MPC and AVI body tubes, motor mount tubes, display booster tubes (possibly including the 5 mm O.D. Taurus-1 booster tubes [if not, a 1/8" launch lug with one wrap of self-adhesive label paper matches the 5 mm outside diameter]), transition sections, and nose cones. Also:

The MPC Taurus-1 kit's http://www.ninfinger.org/rockets/nostalgia/74avi07.html 5 mm diameter booster nose cones and exhaust nozzles (as well as the other plastic parts in the plastic "Customizing Parts Sets" that came in MPC and AVI kits, and in early Quest catalogs (see: http://www.ninfinger.org/rockets/ca.../93quest22.html ), are easy to duplicate as solid-cast resin parts in one-piece RTV--Room Temperature-Vulcanizing--rubber molds (see my primer, "Resin Casting for Rocketeers" http://www.ninfinger.org/models/rms...resin_cast.html , on the Ninfinger Productions http://www.ninfinger.org/rockets/rockets.html website). They can also be 3D printed; the late Bruce Levison ("teflonrocketry1") 3D printed some Taurus-1 booster nose cones & nozzles, and T15 (15 mm diameter, for the MPC Miniroc kits) 5:1 tangent ogive and elliptical (for the MPC Miniroc Pipsqueak kit) nose cones for me.
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Old 07-26-2021, 05:46 PM
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The Taurus-1 chrome parts kits, were the same as the ones included in the Moon-Go kits
https://modelrocketbuilding.blogspo...rt-1-parts.html
and 3d versions can be found here
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4880427
and another version here
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4827180
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Old 07-26-2021, 06:13 PM
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The Taurus-1 chrome parts kits, were the same as the ones included in the Moon-Go kits
https://modelrocketbuilding.blogspo...rt-1-parts.html
and 3d versions can be found here
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4880427
and another version here
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4827180
Thank you for posting those links! I'm glad to know that those parts, 3D printed--and the nose cones, fins, etc.--can be ordered online. All of the MPC Miniroc kits appear to have come with the injection-molded customizing parts sets (so did the MPC Viper kit my father built 40+ years ago), but not all of them are aluminized ("chromed"); in some of the kits I've bought, they are black plastic, with no "chroming" on them, and:

Does anyone offer 3D printed MPC Lunar-Lectric launch pads and launch controllers? They had useful little convenience features (the pad's microclip lead supports for front-motor boost-gliders and its wind direction vane, and the launch controller's vehicle cigarette lighter/spotlight plug).
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Old 07-26-2021, 07:05 PM
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At one point I believe MPC was owned by either Post or Kellogg's cereal company.
Cereal-Box toys....
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At one point I believe MPC was owned by either Post or Kellogg's cereal company.
Cereal-Box toys....
You're close (it was [is--MPC makes model rocket kits today] a cereal company). The citation at the bottom of the card stock back of my Taurus-1 and ASP-1 kits says:

MODEL PRODUCTS OF GENERAL MILLS FUN GROUP, INC.
MOUNT CLEMENS, MICH. 48043
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Old 07-26-2021, 08:20 PM
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I knew it was some cereal company out of my home state, thanks for confirmation !
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Old 07-26-2021, 08:43 PM
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I knew it was some cereal company out of my home state, thanks for confirmation !
You're welcome. The ones that MPC sells today, *as* model rocket kits, are quite good (see: https://www.google.com/search?q=MPC...Q4dUDCAo&uact=5 ). (They still offer the "flight or display" Vostok and Titan IIIC kits [see: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_fr...C+kits&_sacat=0 ], but only as display kits. However, only a few parts need to be added, or made, in order to build them as flyable models, although being plastic [like the Cox RTF rockets], they need pretty high-impulse motors for their size.)
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http://www.lulu.com/product/cd/what...of-2%29/6126511
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Old 07-27-2021, 08:59 AM
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Does anyone offer 3D printed MPC Lunar-Lectric launch pads and launch controllers? They had useful little convenience features (the pad's microclip lead supports for front-motor boost-gliders and its wind direction vane, and the launch controller's vehicle cigarette lighter/spotlight plug).


The launch pad design was used by a later manufacturer. MRC? Custom? It didn't use the little flag and I'm not sure if it used the clip support mast.

If you're ever in Oregon, go to the Sun River Science Center. One of my MPC pads, and an original Moon-Go, is on display.
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