Hi,
At the risk of being chastised royally, I went ahead and used a twist drill to remove the plug, by hand turning it, in an E9-P to make it an E9-0. Yeah, yeah I know all the bullcrap and chastize me stuff. Anyhow, I have a Quest Zenith II. I made a 1st stage that can handle a D or an E. Shot it off with a D and had an awesome flight I was able to catch with my eyes staging to the C6-7 in the sustainer. Suffice it to say I use 2mil silverized mylar streamers reinforced with clear strapping tape along the edges. I highly recommend this stuff as it "rattles" and makes a loud noise on the way down. You can sometimes hear it before you see it and your ears can get a fix on where the model is going. Well shot it off with the "E9-0" and C6-7 combo and the sims say close to 2700' with 0-2 mph wind and 0 degrees. Saw it go up and didn't see it stage. I only heard it stage to the C6-7. Blasted it towards the south. I then stood there and heard the ejection but not the streamer yet. Took forever but my ears finally heard the rattling of the streamer. I did one heck of a scan but didn't pick it up until it was way to the north of me. Had good steamer deployment. Looked to the left and saw that my son was picking up the 1st stage that landed on the field as I was starting to hike out to the north. I never did see the
1st stage come down. Model landed in the cornfield and the beeper brought her back to me in good shape. I don't know why they don't make an E9-0. Some folks says it doesn't make enough thrust but for the 130 gram empty weight model like my bashed Zenith II it does work. Only issue is I bet people would lose alot of models but that is their right to do so if they are stupid as much as I am!Kurt Savegnago