DavidMcCann
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Curious why you put the aft ring and retainer on before mounting in the body. I always leave the aft ring for after the fins are on.
Mostly spacing and laziness/reducing steps. I could dry fit it, glue the front two CRs, and leave the back open. I did leave the rear CR off on Emerald Dragon, my MAC Villain, and several other rockets. I found with as tight as the MMT to BT spacing was I didn't get very effective fillets internally.
Typically now I'll do one of two things-
Install the full MMT with CR's spaced to sandwich fin tabs, and inject after the fins are tacked into place. Did this on my Wildman, Darkstar, and wild man Extreme.
or, inject a ton of epoxy into the fin slot, butter the edge of the fin, and press it in. I prefer this method now. Did it on my Screeches, Villain, and Zodiac.
I did add some small internals on the Villain, but they weren't great, and some I totally missed the joint. But I still needed a sledgehammer to break those fins out.
Then again.... I've been wrong before.
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