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Old 09-21-2005, 12:59 AM
A Fish Named Wallyum A Fish Named Wallyum is offline
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Originally Posted by Royatl
I still have a balsa 60L nose cone. It is over 3/4" longer than the current PNC60L. Of course, the shape of those balsa nosecones varied anyway from time to time as the bits for the plumb grinder wore out and were replaced.

You can blame the Goonybirds for the shorter PNC60L. I guess the shorter ones looked funnier and they could only afford one mold back then. Those were the two-piece injection molded version. They got even shorter when the one-piece blow-molded version was made.


The Big Bertha that I posted the pic of the other day has a balsa 60L cone. I also have an old Bertha with the two piece cone that I plan to do in the yellow/white/black scheme, and the current one piece cone version. Should be interesting to see how much difference there is when I finish.
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