04-03-2019, 08:06 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Fairbanks, Alaska
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Originally Posted by mwtoelle
The only changes between the Centuri and the Estes ALCM kits are slightly different decals, the parachutes. The ALCM kits actually used Centuri parts for both versions (ST-7 motor tube and ST-10 parachute tube). The Centuri kit also had a little more scale documentation and included a display stand that was not included in the Estes version of the kit.
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That is what I'd suspected, as for a while (not long before Centuri went out of business), Centuri was using more and more Estes parts and accessories. Here (see: http://www.spacemodeling.org/jimz/cen5330.htm ) are scans of the Centuri ALCM kit instructions, which include scanned "photocopy-type" pictures of the kit parts. Perhaps these might help enable hand-made, cast resin, or 3D printed duplicate hinges to be made.
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