The old Centuri LIA-77 & LIA-100 wood launch pads were cool launch pads from the 1960s and have since become "old classics". These pads have long since gone out of production but if you have decent wood working skills, you should easily be able to reproduce your own using our hardware kits and templates. The blast deflectors we include in these kits aren't exactly prototypical of the stamped steel blast deflectors that were supplied with the original Centuri launch pads, but those little things were barely adequate and would be cost prohibitive to replicate, requiring having a die made to stamp them out. Blast deflectors are supplied unpainted. I painted these with high temp BBQ grill paint. Our aluminum rod holders are also a significant upgrade over the little piece of wood with a hole drilled in it that the originals had glued to the underside of the top plates. But our parts and templates still let you build a good representation of these old classic pads and they will function much better than the originals. I cut the legs on these pads shown in the photos with a scroll saw, but I have been an avid scroll sawer for the last 20 years so that's my tool of choice for projects such as this. You could also cut them using a band saw if you prefer. The legs shown here on these pads were cut from pine 1 X 4 stock but you can also use poplar, oak or whatever you like. I clear coated the legs with gloss clear acrylic. The triangular top plate / leg holder is cut from 3/8 plywood and was cut using my jigsaw. All the holes were drilled using a small drill press. At this time, I have no plans to sell these kits including the wood parts as that would just be too time consuming to sell affordably. So, you're going to have to have some wood working skills and the necessary tools to build these pads. But judging from the rockets I see a lot of you building, I'm sure there are a lot of you out there who could build one of these pads practically in your sleep. These pads were a lot of fun to build and they are surprisingly sturdy and break down easily to carry in a range box. If these kits take off I will be adding a few more designs that I currently have prototyped. So wood workers, lets hop to it.
