1980's ESTES Mercury Redstone Tower - Single Print by jfcusson

Last crawled date: 3 years ago

My old 1980 ESTES Mercury Redstone flew 8 times and survived a couple of moving, however it was showing its years. Wanted to change the tower, but could only find towers that I would have to print in several parts and assembled. So I decided to design a version from scratch, printable as one part, on my Ender-3. Missing is the tip, I included a small hole so you can put the tip of a toothpick painted red. Does the job and looks straight :-).
Note that contrary to what is advertised with the current ESTES kit, mine is 24 inches in height (current is advertised as 29), so the scale might not totally match the new kit. Be aware, and if you want to print for a new kit you might have to scale the tower yourself.
I recommend using ProPLA to get something that won't breat easily, but the goal was to have a really easy part to print so that the tower can be easily changed after a flight or a bad manipulation, so normal PLA works also.