Thursday, October 2, 2014

Estes Teros Upscale, Making The Nose Cone, Part 2

I needed a plastic base to cover the lower nose cone half.
The clear cover from a CD case worked well.

It was glued in place with medium CA.
I'll have to do an internal fillet later. The CA glue gets brittle with time.
It did hold on well when the clear disk was filed and sanded down to the side of the nose cone.






Here's the top sanded smooth down to 400 grit.

The nose cone tip will be glued on with plastic cement.




The finished ramjet nose cone.
It still needs a built up shoulder made from pieces of body tubes.

The exposed nose cone length is 5 1/16" tall, just short of the 2X upscale size of 5.1"
The length and profile is close enough for a 50 cent nose cone!

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