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The Thrifty Rocketeer blog continues... We've all done it before... rushing a little too fast... or forgetting to double check... Suddenly we step back and realize that we've assembled that rocket kit wrong! Now, it's not that we don't understand how kits go together, but sometimes, you're just not thinking it all the way through and see the error before you make it. It seems like there's always been a practice of posting a picture on line and asking "Can you spot what I did wrong?" Usually, it's fairly obvious, and most of us have been there. But there's a new wrinkle that seems to have reared its head recently. All too often, it's that we've glued a fin onto a body tube along the wrong edge. That is, the proper edge is termed the "root edge", and it usually involves the wood grain running perpendicular to the root edge. If you glue along the wrong edge, specifically along the wood grain, your fine is not strong in the righ...