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Old 12-23-2017, 10:08 PM
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Originally Posted by stefanj
My guess would be that the short plastic cones were (like the fin cans) firework components.

Vern or Gleda might remember, but we're getting into micro-history here.

I remain bummed that firework fin cans of the spin-fin and Dirty Bird variety are no longer around. I've seen new ones, but they look "wrong." Oddly angled.
That sounds plausible, since Vern Estes was in the fireworks business before he started Estes Industries. Although I don't know any personally, there are fireworks historians and artifact collectors. If any of them have the short BT-40 nose cones and the spin-fin and Dirty Bird fin cans, if they measured them, these parts could be 3D printed, even in a "hard rubber-like plastic" similar to that of the original parts.
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