Nose Cone Weights - Lead! TIP

On YORF, DavidQ made some round, flat nose cone weights from lead fishing sinkers.
David was cloning a K-11 Estes Wac corporal. These are his pictures -

These are "Bullet Weights" egg shaped sinkers.
Lead is soft and malleable.






A few hits with a hammer to flatten it out, then some shaping and cutting.
You end up with an old school flat and round nose cone weight.

This style weight is a good choice if you don't want to hollow out the nose cone or use epoxy to retain the weights.

The old Estes NCW-1 lead nose cone weight was 11/16" diameter and around 1/16" thick. The diameter would allow them to sit under the shoulder of a balsa nose cone and inside a BT-20 body tube.
A single weight was 0.12 oz.