I would use single sections of tube. Using a 24" piece of right angle aluminum stock makes aligning the slots relatively easy, and a single piece reduces alignment and gas venting issues. One other alignment tool I use is a section of 1"x 2" U channel when setting up the BT-5 tubes on the cores. Did the kit come with the card stock surrounds for the gas transfer slots? And as far as the epoxy, I doubt that would be an issue, do you?

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No, not on the Trident.

The Bident had them but not the Trident.

BTW, I found some of those cardstock surrounds in my stash.

Not sure where they came from. I think I got 'em in a box of rocket "stuff" from an old hobby shop.

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It came with the alignment jig, but I don't see the surrounds I think you're referring to.

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I have an opened "Trident II" (and taped shut) and it shows them in the plans.

But not in the original Trident

I probably should scan it for Ye Olde.

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I actually did that with my Bident (eh-heh, ah, otherwise known as Trident II). Since the Trident II was among the last Estes kits to get balsa nose cones from the old nose cone machine, I put the BNC-50Y and 50K into my parts box and replaced them with plastic versions. Didn't have plastic versions of the 50J (I substituted a SEMROC version) or the four -20 sized cones, so I left them.

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All right, crazy idea.

If I use the 9" tubes and couplers, could I temporarily join them w/o glue while gluing the front and rear ends and thus save the jig?

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