Estes BOSS Kit #7316, Build, Part 5, Nose Cone Prep

My builds were pre-production - no mention was made of cleaning up the nose cone tie loop.

This tie point loop is thin and a bit weak.

To remove the center, I started with a new blade and punched some small holes around the perimeter of the loop. 

Go light! You don't want to cut through the sides of the loop.

This allowed me to punch out the center.

The inside edges were lightly filed with a small rat tail file.

The nose cone was pretty clean, just a slight molding line near the tip.

A small bead a medium CA glue was set into the seam line and allowed to dry.

The dried bead of glue was scraped to surface using the backside of a #11 blade. Use the back edge of the blade like a cabinet scraper.

Follow with 400 grit to take the CA down to surface.