And reconstituting dried out potters' clay.
And snipping off pin heads for rivets.
And soaking squishy, hand cut balsa with thin CA.
And building silly harness systems with handmade mylar chutes and discount store swivels.
And gluing big metal washers on balsa nose cones for no good, stinking, performance robbing nose weight.
And improvising your own decals.
And staining your hands and white clothes black while sanding back fiberboard engine rings and parachute retention rings.
And attaching black underwear elastic with obsolete, old style three fold paper shock cord mounts.
And many more I can't remember, having suppressed the memories to remain on the straight and narrow path of safe, traditionally constructed 3-4FNC!
Oh the horror of TLP construction techniques and material quality. The directions say to do what? Sports scale nightmares when the RSO would see a real rocket science dude having performed many bulletproofing mods with no clue about model rocket balance. "I gots me a bigger motor and glassed it up for true mid power strength! I don't need no stinking nose weight cause I'm a gonna fly it high and fast and I know what the heck I am doing. In fact darling, I AM A ROCKET SCIENTIST!" DANG! It crashed again! Took out the minivan this time. No good TLP kits! Bad design, all unstable like. Gonna get on that fancy internet and write a scathing review. Oh how I miss reading those back in the good ole days!
No good TLP kits! Just junk parts and hard to build! Gonna sell the lot on this new fangled EBAY fer cheap! Some crazy dude will buy them.