Estes Mini Arcas, #2441, Part 13, Shock Cord & Streamer

When forming a paper shock cord mount, I like to form the glued up mount to fit the inside of the body tube.

Estes has developed new plastic, self-adhesive shock cord mounts for the BT-50, BT-55 and BT-60 tubes. The BT-20 and BT-5 tubes are too small. 

Note the pencil mark on the rubber cord to be used as a depth gauge, 1" down inside the tube.

I use tweezers to insert the paper mount to the 1" depth before pressing the glued mount to the inside of the tube.

The chromed mylar streamer had rough cut ends. 

For easier placement of the clear tape, the upper end of the streamer was lightly taped down to my work surface.