Rob40
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I was gifted an older 29mm mount 4" build. Retention of the era is masking tape, and recovery attachment is by looped metal cable to flat half inch elastic strap. On tube fin mount. Not plywood ring motor mount...this is old school by appearance to me. (Of course I don't know how old is actually old school) launch buttons apparently didn't exist...6mm+ lugs are on this 53" tall orange army missile.
I'm pretty new to higher powah building, so im looking for knowledge of how we built, 20-30+ years ago so I know just how old of a style this is.....I'm wondering about mount rings of the day, (obviously not laser cut plywood rings) were they super heavy cardstock ply? The cable is looped through the top ring and who knows if these rings can take a good deployment or a 29mm shot today. If in doubt, I could shove some new rings on top of the old tube onesand on bottom and have a modern eyebolt and retention method.
So what did we use back then, in steps. The build histories are interesting.
I'm pretty new to higher powah building, so im looking for knowledge of how we built, 20-30+ years ago so I know just how old of a style this is.....I'm wondering about mount rings of the day, (obviously not laser cut plywood rings) were they super heavy cardstock ply? The cable is looped through the top ring and who knows if these rings can take a good deployment or a 29mm shot today. If in doubt, I could shove some new rings on top of the old tube onesand on bottom and have a modern eyebolt and retention method.
So what did we use back then, in steps. The build histories are interesting.