Over on Ye Olde Rocket Forum user luke strawwalker compiled a handy list of body tube sizes. The original list can be found here. I have created a handy table based on his data, with some minor revisions to make my understanding better.

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I needed a pair of shrouds for my Celestial Navigator rocket, so I looked online for a shroud calculator. The choices I found didn't thrill me (as I don't have a ruler marked out in inches to three or so decimal places) so I wrote my own. Mine accepts not only the measurements of the tubes in question, but also offers pulldowns to choose from standard Estes and Centuri/Semroc sized tubes. Results are presented in decimal inches (to three places), fractional inches (accurate to 32nds of an inch) and millimeters (rounded up).

New! This program now generates printable template graphics!

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I've created an online centering ring generator tool. It creates 150 dpi PNG images, which can be downloaded and printed. Click here to try it out.