I hope to be launching my Deuce's Wild for the first time this weekend. I have a small stash of the old "good" black-tipped Estes igniters which I have been saving for cluster use, but the Deuce motor mounts will put them too far apart to twist the leads together. Short of using some more expensive igniters with longer leads, how do people normally hook these things up?
I'm not sure if the clubs have clip whips available or what. It didn't occur to me to purchase one of my own when I got the kit, probably too late to do so now, at least for this weekend.
Clip whips are easy enough to make.
Get some light double stranded insulated wire. (If you have an old Estes ignition system you can scavenge from that.).
Figure out max number of engines you want to build for (if you are never going to cluster more than two, than two is fine.)
For your base wire (the one you will attach your current two ignition wire to) at one end spread apart strip the two wires and attach a contact point (I ended up just using a metal washer to each, worked fine.).
At the other end of the base wire, spread and strip the ends. Mark one end “black” or some other color.
Attach two, three, or four wires to the black wire, and mark the tips of these black. Strip the ends of these wires and ideally attach alligator clips.
Other than NOT marking them black, to the same for the other base wire.
Insulate the connections with electrical tape or shrink tubing.
“Black” is this case does not represent the negative pole or anything, just helps you keep track of the two separate base wires.
At launch, each igniter gets one black wire and one not-black wire.
Attach your standard leads to the washers or other contact points of the base wire. Spread them apart enough obviously so they don’t tough/short circuit.
The essential factor for use is that you need a well charged 12 volt ignition system