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WANTED: Scans of the Centuri Magnum Sprint (5356)
OK, I have a Semroc Centuri Magnum Sprint (KV-67), now OOP, and I'm working on a .ork file for it. However, I want to do a comparison between it and the Centuri Magnum Sprint (5356). Problem is: None of the regular sources for instructions have them.
What I do know: According to the description found in 1983 Centuri Catalog)(and the 1982 catalog)(both found on Ninfinger's site), the Magnum Sprint has a plastic nosecone. HOWEVER, the photo doesn't seem to back that up, if the Semroc kit is accurate in its implication (BNC-55AC -> PNC-55AC), but that photo shows a blunter nosecone than the PNC-55AC. What I need... Scans of the instructions, fins, decals (along with a ruler for scale). Photos of an original would also be helpful. Thanks! Jim
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The catalog photos look like the PNC-55AC to me. That's the same cone as the later plastic version Goblin, Meteor, Vigilanti etc. By that time, new Centuri stuff was coming out with Estes parts. Sorry, but I don't have documentation.
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Looking at the catalog photos, the nosecone seems to be too blunt for a PNC-55AC. That said, the instructions in the Semroc Magnum Sprint (KV-67) mentioned that the rocket was completely built with Estes parts, and directly mentioned that the original used the PNC-55AC. Here's what a stock build of the Semroc Magnum Sprint would look like: Here what it'd look like after swapping in an Estes PNC-55AC: And finally, what it'd look like with an Estes PNC-55AO:
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Sorry, got the numbers mixed in my head. The catalog looks like PNC-55AO, which is the Vigilante, Meteor, Goblin, etc. cone.
55AC is the Cherokee nose cone and is pointed.
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That makes a lot more sense... Still we've got the disparity between the information contained in the Semroc kit (using a balsa BNC-55AC to replace the PNC-55AC used by Centuri), and the photos in the catalogs which do look a lot like a PNC-55AO.
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. . Dreaming of making the rockets I dreamed of as a kid (and then some). "The Guide says there is an art to flying", said Ford, "or rather a knack." "The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss." Launching is Optional... Landing? That Depends on Trees. |
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I've edited in the Ninfinger images from the 1983 catalog... and noticed something else that really casts doubt on the PNC-55AC being used with the Magnum Sprint. If you look at the Magnum Hornet on the same page, it clearly has a PNC-55AC nosecone, and it looks nothing like the Sprint's nosecone.
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. . Dreaming of making the rockets I dreamed of as a kid (and then some). "The Guide says there is an art to flying", said Ford, "or rather a knack." "The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss." Launching is Optional... Landing? That Depends on Trees. |
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