05-09-2020, 10:09 AM
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When Pigs Fly!
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Orlando, FL
Posts: 1,102
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Originally Posted by Earl
Crepe wadding is pretty much all I have ever used on model rockets (several different other types on high power rockets).
Centuri starting selling the crepe wadding around about '73. It is what came with my Centuri Screaming Eagle starter set. But, I never bought any actual packs from Centuri after I used what came in my starter set. I could get large sheets of it MUCH cheaper at the department store and cut it into rectangles the size of the Centuri stuff. Much later, I acquired a number of packs of the Centuri wadding (as you have pictured) and that was the first time I ever saw what the Centuri crepe paper wadding packs looked like...and it was something like 30 years after the fact, long after Centuri had gone out of business.
They actually sold both types of wadding -- the crepe and the earlier 'cotton' type -- for many years, maybe even up until '83 when they went out business.
Earl
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Years back, I bought a few packs of the Centuri Stellar wadding on sale.
https://modelrocketbuilding.blogspo...ri-wadding.html
After getting used to it, I prefer it over the Estes treated toilet paper. I pick it up and re-use it if the upper layaers of wadding aren't charred.
Looks like some of the suppliers are running out of lighter colors. Michael's seems to have a good price on the rolled sheets:
https://www.michaels.com/7.5-ft.-cr...w/D048266S.html
I know you can get narrow crepe rolls at the Dollar Store, but I like to cut larger than 2" squares. I cut my squares at about 4.5".
I know dog barf is cheaper, but this seems to help with ejection charge "blow-bys". |