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Just a quick note, I wanted to replace my original Pershing1A nosecone after some damage to the tip after landing on some hard surface(the tip was almost all resin and gel-coat on the performance nose cone for the first two inches, so no real strength....In any case, I tried one of the proline black 5:1 4" concicals with aluminum tip. What an excellent product! For the first time in my life, I didn't need to sand the shoulder, clean up anything, apply tape to get it to fit. It fit perfectly into my 4" loc cardboard tube. I removed the aluminum tip by unscrewing, lopped about 2" off the end, and re-profiled it on my drill press and belt sander to a more angled pershing like tip and reinstalled it with a little bit of added shot/epoxy that was needed for CG. I cut and instaled a bulkhead and used three screws to hold the shoulder into the cone section so I could remove it and add more weight for larger motors if needed. I've painted it and am just waiting for some replacement vinyl from stickershock. If anyone is considering a nice cone, these are first rate products and well worth the price in my opinion. The aluminum tip will help protect against landing damage and since the cone was hollow all the way to the aluminum tip I was able to use less nose weight than before. I re-simmed using rocksim equations and can move the CG back a bit so can now fly it on G104 and G79W's and G-77R's in the hp 100 and 120 casing, as well as G75 and G80's
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