Ye Olde Rocket Forum - View Single Post - Mercury Redstone K-41 Build

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Originally Posted by mikeyd

A few years back, I finally finished mine, I had started building back in the 70's. But then swapped it for an unfinished kit of a friend of mine. Gave him mine, on a stand when he was diagnosed with terminal cancer, for all I know his family buried him with it, as I do not know what became of it after that. So I have been getting parts to complete his old one, but I did opt for a 3d printed escape tower assy, and the Semroc laser cut fins.

Skipping the dowel escape tower build misses half the fun

BTW, I found this page on Chris Michielssen's blog: http://modelrocketbuilding.blogspot...ver-part-a.html, his opinion is WD-41 was heat pressed from mahogany. Seems plausible, the stuff isn't as hard as the part name would suggest. Pretty cool in any case, Mahogany wood in a model rocket!

Was the K-41 the only Skill Level 5 kit released in a bag during the Skill Level packaging years? That would make it the only red "Skill-Level hang-tag" kit ever.