09-21-2005, 12:50 AM
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SPEV/Orion wrangler
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Atlanta, GA
Posts: 2,645
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Originally Posted by rraeford
In photo #3
Notice the nose cone on the Farside X and the Ranger. It comes to a point. That changed as time went by to a blunt, rounded nose. And then to a shorter and even more blunt plastic nose later on – which continues to this day. I kind of liked the original.
rraeford
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I still have a balsa 60L nose cone. It is over 3/4" longer than the current PNC60L. Of course, the shape of those balsa nosecones varied anyway from time to time as the bits for the plumb grinder wore out and were replaced.
You can blame the Goonybirds for the shorter PNC60L. I guess the shorter ones looked funnier and they could only afford one mold back then. Those were the two-piece injection molded version. They got even shorter when the one-piece blow-molded version was made.
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