Last night my brother-in-law came up and we jammed the nose weight clay down into the nose cone. Then we attached a heavy hank of kevlar shock cord gifted to my by
@prfesser when I first joined. A good man and true! But something was bugging me; we've had discussions on nose weight or ballast lately and I recalled reading something about heating the clay. I found it
on this post over here. We have one of those "hot shot" counter top hot water heaters, so today I got the narrowest glass I could find (my wife's favorite little flowered juice glass, it really is a pretty little thing), used water just short of boiling, and stuck the nose cone down in it. Viola! Beautifully molded clay, nice and level and fully conformed, in the tip of the nose cone. Thanks to
@jqavins for the tip and my pretty little wife for the use of her pretty little juice glass.
Another titebond fillet on the engine tube and shock cord mount since I was there, then I called it a day. Real ball'o'fire, ain't I?
