12-23-2017, 10:08 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Fairbanks, Alaska
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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.
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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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