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Old 12-20-2017, 07:53 AM
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Originally Posted by tbzep
Estes had an angled deflector sold as an accessory in the 70's, but it wasn't as fancy. The Centuri version should have been added as an accessory when the two companies products started crossing over.
I'd forgotten about that one! If its depicting drawing is accurate, that blast deflector was yet another design--a section of a circle, with "near edgewise" pressed-in stiffening ribs, with one bent-over section at the top where the launch lug slipped through a punched hole. (The "Fin-Kwik" also looks like it was a versatile, heavy-duty tool; I'd buy one of them, too, if Estes re-issued it...)
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