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Old 10-22-2014, 10:01 PM
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Thinking about it more -- and perhaps this was already obvious to everyone already -- I think that the Estes clear tube has a thinner wall thickness than a standard Estes body tube.

So Estes probably built their nose cone and transition so that the difference between the outer diameter of the balsa and the diameter of the mating surface was proper for an Estes Standard body tube to fit over the mating surface snugly and then have the outer surface of the body tube flush.

The clear tube is probably the right size for the outer diameter to be close to flush with the oter diameter of the balsa, and so the mating surface of the balsa is loose on the clear tube and hence the need for stickers.


The main reason for the stickers, if I'm not mistaken, is to provide a gluing surface between the plastic payload tube and the balsa transition. The white glue most of us were using at he time won't bond with the plastic.

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