07-17-2021, 05:01 PM
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Apollo Nut
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Join Date: Dec 2006
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Originally Posted by ghrocketman
I bought a Porta-Pad in 1977 and it was Orange.
I thought the yellow ones were much newer.
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Pretty sure the original ones were yellow. Even the 1970 Estes catalog, the first to list the Porta-Pad, states that it was yellow plastic.
See catalog page here: http://www.ninfinger.org/rockets/no...a/70est100.html
Not sure when they switched to orange, but probably very early 70s.
Earl
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