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Old 11-06-2017, 12:01 AM
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Originally Posted by mwtoelle
I think that a company called Stone Industries made the CMR and MPC tubes. An interesting thread on the subject can be found here: http://www.rocketryforum.com/showth...like-body-tubes .
Stone Industries...are/were they also the ones who made/make the stiff, "Stone-ized" stage couplers that Estes used/uses in their kits? Thank you for the link; I never had a CMR (Competition Model Rockets) kit, just a couple of Pratt Hobbies' kits that used their vacu-formed nose cones, but I have seen that CMR type of body tube before (that's shown in a photograph in that TRF thread), and not only in MPC kits.
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