The "Shorty" motors were sent in blue tubes, 3 to a tube. A cardboard spacer (18mm empty motor tube) was used to fill the rest of the tube.

I should have figured as much--Vern and the folks were resourceful and used whatever materials were at hand. Now that I think of it, they even offered a balsa nose cone that was made to fit the motor mailing tubes, although I never saw one except in the catalogs. A rocket that used the mailing tube would have used (I conjecture) a BT-55 motor mount with the centering rings peeled or trimmed down to fit.

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Mini motors came in diamond packs from the get-go. The fliers at NARAM-13 got the first mini-motors in their registration packs. Regular motors had been coming in diamond packs for at least a few months by this time.

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Thank you for confirming that, Roy. I didn't think mini motors were ever shipped in the tubes, but I wasn't sure.

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