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Building my Leviathan clone

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7/4/23:  As discussed earlier this year I purchased parts for a Patriot Pro several years ago but never built it. After reading the history of the Estes Pro Series II kits I realized I should use the parts I have to build a Leviathan .  Leviathan was the first of the Pro Series II and was available from 2012 until 2015, and was 41.5" tall with a 3" diameter.  Mine will be 43" tall because I have a longer body tube (Estes/North Coast Rocketry #31755 sold by Estes  from 1996-1999 ).  The Leviathan instructions used to be available on the Estes site but they redesigned their site recently and did away with that so I have to go to the Internet Wayback Machine to find it:   https://web.archive.org/web/20220113172227/https://estesrockets.com/wp-content/uploads/Instructions/009700_LEVIATHAN.pdf (of course, it's also available on JimZ's site  ; I'm just showing off my Internet geek skills by searching the Wayback Machine for when they last "scraped" the