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Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Dr. Zooch Saturn V Build Step 7 Apollo Spacecraft Part 2

The instructions say to "Use a large amount of glue inside the BPC when attaching it to the adapter . . .  it will harden and form a solid nose cone."

I didn't want to take the chance of the card stock shrinking up so I coated the inside of the shroud applying white glue with a Q-Tip.
I kept the glue away from the edges that will get glued again later. I just coated the middle areas of the inside wall.



The edges of the wide end were lightly sanded to take off any high spots and sand the edge at an angle.

When the shroud is glued on, the thinner angled edge is easier to "feather in" shown in the next picture.




A small line of glue was applied to the disk edge.
The shroud was slid down the dowel and onto the glue.

While the card stock edge was wet a clean sharpened dowel was rolled over the joint, molding the edges together.

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