12-24-2011, 12:29 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Auburn, Washington
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Originally Posted by chrism
Going back to the Alpha, what do you guys think of the Semroc Start? It was an early design by Bill Simon and it certainly looks Alphaesque with a slightly bigger body tube. I could not find in the instructions of the Start when it was first introduced so could it have been the predecessor of the Alpha?
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No....not predecessor....but rather a Semroc RTB interpretation of the Alpha, introduced just this past year. It's a nice model. As you say, it's a slight scale-up (107%), with the through-the-wall fins and inner/outer tube arrangement of the other RTB series members.
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