02-09-2013, 07:01 AM
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the middle-aged rocketeer
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Urbana, Illinois.....the birthplace of HAL
Posts: 468
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Originally Posted by Chas Russell
It is a PNC-40H rubber nose cone. The 1964 Estes catalog lists it along with two other cones as plastic. Only one is actually plastic as it was from a firework. See www.ninfinger.org. It also shows up in the 1963 catalog, but appears to be mislisted as weighting 0.07 ounce. The 1964 catalog shows a more believable 0.40 ounce.
I believe that these nose cones originated with Model Missiles, Inc. Hopefully someone can either confirm or disprove that.
Chas |
+1 It is a pnc 40H. it was featured on the Central Rockets kit whose name I forget. The shock cord is attached via a piece of thread you attach through the shoulder. I've got three of them I bought at Slot and Wing, one with the origanal instructions rolled up inside.
The rocket from Central Rockets also featured the spin-fin unit used in the Estes Bug-a-Bye design.
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