Interceptor Parts

Clone a real classic - The Interceptor!

A few years ago, a co-worker, Mitch Pringle, offered me some of his old rockets that were destined for the trash barrel. Among them was an Estes Astron Interceptor. The plastic parts were unpainted and easily removed from the rocket. I decided to put my casting "skills" to the test and cast reproductions of these very hard-to-find parts.

Here's what's I came up with:

	Instead of the two-piece nose cone, I created a one-piece, hollow nose cone. Since I cast it as one piece, there's no gluing required.
	Instead of the original wing pods which had 2 plastic pieces and a long balsa nose cone, I simplified everything and cast it all as one piece. It's ready to go. Just glue it to the wing-tip and you're finished.
	For the tail ring, there wasn't much I could do to make this part simpler, so it's pretty much just like the original.

The Interceptor plans are available from JimZ at http://www.dars.org/jimz/k-50.htm . The decals are available from a number of sources. Balsa and tubing are both readily available. Only the plastic parts and the balsa nose cones have kept many of us from cloning this beauty. Hopefully, by making these parts available, we'll be seeing some Interceptors flying skyward again at the local launches.

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This page was created: October 31, 2001

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