07-22-2010, 01:59 PM
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Launching since 1970.
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Southern California
Posts: 2,188
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Originally Posted by Doug Sams
I have seen some later B14's that looked more like B8's - they didn't begin to have the larger cores seen on the earlier B14's. It wasn't clear to me if this was due to worn out drills, substitution (ie, selling B8's as B14's before finally getting new cert's and name changes), or mislabelling.
(I posted a pic of the various B14 and B8 nozzles somewhere, but danged if I can find it now...) [Edit: It was on my old website, but I need to upload it to my new one.]
Doug
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I think there was a later (possibly Centuri blue or green casing era) version of B14 make with a deep tapered core rather than the core with two steps seen earlier. It was much deeper than the B8/C5 core.
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