The three fins fit well into the pre-cut slots in the body.
TIP: You can glue the fins on now, but it's easier to apply the bolt strip stickers as a wrap, first in one piece. Place it as a single strip, instead of in three separate pieces. The stickers are shown in the next post.
TIP: The instructions always say to make "snakes" out of the clay nose weight.
Instead of chasing the clay snake around the inside of the nose cone with a dowel, cut the clay into small pieces and roll those into little balls. Drop them into the hole in the NC shoulder a few at a time. Press in with a dowel tip.
The nose cone fit was loose.
TIP: I built up the inside wall with more of the Beacon Fabri-Tac. A bead of glue was applied and smoothed with a finger. After that dried the nose cone was dry fitted. More glue was added until a better fit was obtained.
I had not thought to try using Fabri-Tac for building up body tube thickness. I just used it today to seal the frayed end of round elastic (like tiny bungie cord). Worked great since the outer wrap over the rubber is fabric.
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