Estes Pershing nose cone

[LW Bercini]

A guy in my local club is a Pershing fan. I mentioned to him that I had a nose cone from the old Estes Maxi Pershing. He's interested in buying it. What would be a fair price?

Thanks.

[ghrocketman]

Hard to say seeing as the molds for that kit were supposedly destroyed.
Unopened kits regularly go for over $150.00 on ebay.
The hardest part of cloning the kit is by far the nose cone if you want the rocket to not weigh a ton with a solid wood cone.
If I had only one, I would not let it go.
Any above one, I would want at least $60.00.

[jharding58]

Before I sold it I would get a plug made. Something you could use to make a GF cone, or serve as a master. If he is a friend then you can be as nice as you like. Is it in your build queue?

[chrism]

Find out how much he is willing to pay and go from there.

[LW Bercini]

Before I sold it I would get a plug made. Something you could use to make a GF cone, or serve as a master.

Sorry? "GF cone"??

Is it in your build queue?

No, it's just been sitting in storage for 20 years.

[jharding58]

Sorry? "GF cone"??


No, it's just been sitting in storage for 20 years.


Glass fibre. Or fiberglass..

[sandman]

Hard to say seeing as the molds for that kit were supposedly destroyed.
Unopened kits regularly go for over $150.00 on ebay.
The hardest part of cloning the kit is by far the nose cone if you want the rocket to not weigh a ton with a solid wood cone.
If I had only one, I would not let it go.
Any above one, I would want at least $60.00.

Not a ton, 10.3 oz. Nothing an F or a G couldn't launch.

I just finished it tonight.

[jharding58]

Right purty. You think it would need noseweight to achieve stability? Didn't the Maxi-Brute use a pat in the NC tip?

[sandman]

Right purty. You think it would need noseweight to achieve stability? Didn't the Maxi-Brute use a pat in the NC tip?

It's hollowed out and will need a bit of nose weight. The RocSim shows it solid balsa and it doesn't require any nose weight with about 1.5 calipers of stability.

The CG is just a bit more than an inch below the top of the body tube with a G40-7.

[Royatl]

A guy in my local club is a Pershing fan. I mentioned to him that I had a nose cone from the old Estes Maxi Pershing. He's interested in buying it. What would be a fair price?

Thanks.

At NARCON-91 in Huntsville, I bought a Pershing nose at auction for $60. Of course, that was before eBay and I figured then that I'd never see one available again. Even since eBay, I think I've seen only three or four kits available and maybe a nosecone.

So, I'm inclined to advise $100 as a starting bid. But it really depends on how much *you* want to keep it.


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P.S. I've still got the Pershing cone, unused. The cone I was going to replace with it, I repaired with fiberglass well enough to keep it flying, and I keep the fresh cone just in case.

[Earl]

At NARCON-91 in Huntsville, I bought a Pershing nose at auction for $60. Of course, that was before eBay and I figured then that I'd never see one available again. Even since eBay, I think I've seen only three or four kits available and maybe a nosecone.

So, I'm inclined to advise $100 as a starting bid. But it really depends on how much *you* want to keep it.


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P.S. I've still got the Pershing cone, unused. The cone I was going to replace with it, I repaired with fiberglass well enough to keep it flying, and I keep the fresh cone just in case.

Yeah, those Pershings just don't come up on ebay very often at all. One of the last ones that did, here a few months back or so, was still shrink wrapped and I seem to recall it went for something around $650.

Earl

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A guy in my local club is a Pershing fan. I mentioned to him that I had a nose cone from the old Estes Maxi Pershing. He's interested in buying it. What would be a fair price?

Thanks.

In the past I had some interest in locating the Pershing cone to build a AAA Model Aviation Fues HVTV Sentry like the one J. Stuart Powley has in this thread:

www.oldrocketforum.com/showthread.php?t=6255

When I realized that model also utilized the Estes Maxi Honest John cone for the base I figured the possibility of coming up with both of those cones at a reasonable price was slim to none.

If it were my Pershing cone and it was in good shape I'd hold on to it. I'm not one to collect but I could see getting rid of it and one day wishing I hadn't because I wanted to build something with it and couldn't find another one like it.

:)