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Old 04-22-2019, 07:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Earl
The 1340 used heavy-walled tubing, so that .1" connector and the nose cone were unique to the 1340. To my knowlege, that cone and connector have never been re-released.
The cone for the similar looking Centuri Phoenix Bird used regular thin-walled tubing like the present day Estes Eliminator.
But, for present day cloning a decent clone can be made with your Eliminator parts. The .1" coupler can be faked by cutting a .1" length of ST-13 tube and sliding that over a regular balsa coupler.
Earl


That's what I did on mine -
http://modelrocketbuilding.blogspot...-5-coupler.html
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