02-24-2009, 06:48 AM
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Mr. Dual Eggloft
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Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Illinois: where our Governors make our license plates.
Posts: 585
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Originally Posted by barone
Actually, I've never had any problem with the "safety pin" style.....but I usually use them on my smaller rockets that really don't experience much of a deployment velocity.......or they use streamers......  |
You Will 
They'll work fine for the Astron Alpha class kits. I used them for my first decade in the hobby. Then I got to NARAM-18, and had my chute leave the party on what would have been a 2nd place D ELA flight. The model pranged, the egg smashed to bits, and the chute drifted off. I did find it, and the snap was ripped open.
That was the last time I used one of those.
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