09-05-2018, 08:14 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2013
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Originally Posted by tbzep
The catalog photos look like the PNC-55AC to me. That's the same cone as the later plastic version Goblin, Meteor, Vigilanti etc. By that time, new Centuri stuff was coming out with Estes parts. Sorry, but I don't have documentation.
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Looking at the catalog photos, the nosecone seems to be too blunt for a PNC-55AC. That said, the instructions in the Semroc Magnum Sprint (KV-67) mentioned that the rocket was completely built with Estes parts, and directly mentioned that the original used the PNC-55AC.
Here's what a stock build of the Semroc Magnum Sprint would look like:
Here what it'd look like after swapping in an Estes PNC-55AC:
And finally, what it'd look like with an Estes PNC-55AO:
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