12-18-2017, 11:19 PM
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Originally Posted by ghrocketman
Glad I was able to help.
I also agree that the "Power Tower" pad one is also different.
When the Power Tower was produced, both Centuri and Estes were owned by Damon.
The Power Tower was a clone of the Estes Porta Pad.
The only thing that differentiated the two was color and blast deflector shape.
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Another kid at school in Georgia who was into model rocketry had one; I definitely preferred their angled deflector to Estes' disc deflector, which kicked back finish-marring sparks unless the rockets were elevated a little way above it with a clothespin or a spent motor. |