The most unusual aspect of the build (at least to me) is the shock cord mount. I’ve never seen it done this way anywhere else....and after having seen the finished product I’m not entirely surprised.

The instructions have you remove a section from what will become the tool for installing the thrust ring, which appears to be folded from cardstock, to act as the shock cord retainer. Just eyballing the artwork I took a guess at the size of this part at about 1/2 inch by 1 inch. For material I cut a bit off the back of a cheap notepad (one of those one gets in the mail with donation solicitations). Then, with that part I followed the instructions to roughly shape it to fit inside the body tube, then tied a loop of shock cord around it, followed by gluing that assembly in about an inch down in the tube.

Once it’s in there, the knot holding the loop in the shock cord is really going to be in the way. It makes putting an Estes tri-fold in this size tube look like a good idea.


(and no, I don’t know why the pictures suddenly reversed order after I made a minor text edit above)

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