01-18-2019, 05:32 AM
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Originally Posted by Tau Zero
I have a Centuri Mini-Dactyl kit that I got from Don Fent about ten years ago. The nose cone is equivalent to Semroc's BC-515E (1.5" elliptical), and Carl McLawhorn posted elsewhere that this was the only kit that used this particular nose cone.
I agree, the catalog photo shows a 2.2" long PNC-54, which I much prefer aesthetically.
In cases like this, I find myself wanting to recreate the catalog pictures instead of the actual kit. Case in point? Three pointy Semroc BC-517 pod cones on the Centuri Taurus instead of the PNC-51s. 
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Yes, it--the Mini-Dactyl nose cones I'd bought from Semroc--were longish elliptical ones (and I too prefer the PNC-54 shown in the Mini-Dactyl catalog illustration). Ditto for using that nose cone (or the Estes virtual duplicate) in the Centuri Taurus--the PNC-51 just doesn't look right for the pods. |