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Finishing Touches The painting suggestions in the instructions were to paint the entire rocket gloss white. Then paint flat black on 2 fins and the payload section and fluorescent colors on the rest. I went a little different route and went with a gold body, red fins and black nose cone...

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Final Steps All that is left at this point is to mount the shock cord and build the payload bay. The shock cord mount is your standard trifold mount which is glued 1 1/2 inches down inside the the main tube. The shock cord provides is a fabric covered shock cord and not the typical elastic...

18mm Mount - The instructions indicate you will get either a .94" x 2" centering tube (similar to what is used on the 24mm mount) or two 1/4 inch centering/thrust rings. This kit came with the the centering/thrust rings. I lightly sanded inside each ring so the would slide on the 18mm tube...

Motor Mounts While the glue was drying on the fins I started work on the motor mounts. There are three motor mounts that need to be built. First up was the 3X13mm Mount. I place a little glue on two tubes and allowed it to tack up before joining together. I used a scrap block of wood to...

There are two dealers that are active on TRF where you could inquire about this kit: JonRocket and Countyline Hobbies. You can also see a list of other dealers here: https://v-serv.com/usr/dealers.htm

The instructions then have you cut the included 1/8 launch lug in half. One half is glued against a fin and the other half 6 inches up the tube. I diverged from the instructions at this point. First, I did not want to have a launch lug in the way while adding fillets. I used the fin wrap to...

The instructions also call for gluing the fins 1/2 inch from the rear of the tube with Titebond or other yellow wood glue. It is very important to glue them 1/2 inch up because you will be securing the motors with a wrap of tape around the bottom section of the body tube. I used Titebond...

FINS The instructions has a fin alignment guide that consists of a circle the size of the body tube with cross hairs to mark the fins. I have never had much success with this type of guide. I find a fin wrap is a little easier to use than horizontal fin alignment guide. The body tube is...

Bellgate Distributors is not U.S. Rockets. Bellgate Distributors is a second generation wholesale hobby distribution business selling worldwide to retail hobby, craft, and variety stores.

Fin preparation - 1/16" Plywood Fins The directions call for tapering the leading and trailing edges. I drew a line twice the thickness of the fin, in this case 1/8" from the edge to use as a guide. The double the thickness is just something that I've use and works for me I started...

Packaging and Parts Here are a few pictures of the product packaging and the parts after unpackaging. A couple of the parts drew my attention: the body tube and fins. First the body tubes. "Other" body tube on left. U.S. Rockets body tube on right. Note both...

I am working with Rich O’Hara (raohara here on TRF) at Bellgate Distributors. We were looking through the inventory and discussed doing some build threads on some of the kits we distribute. First up is the U.S. Rockets Micro Interroc. I picked this kit for a couple of reasons. First, I’ve...