Or the prohibition-era hotels and restaurants, which served glasses of iced ginger ale, seltzer water, etc. - with a footnote on the menu: "not intended for use with alcoholic beverages"... yeah right! :)
I wouldn't know... what quantity of motors are sold (per year, say) by way of ROL auctions? - and what percentage of them are neither hand delivered by the seller nor shipped with the "correct hazmat labeling"? I don't know if anyone actually keeps figures on these things, do you?
(My _guess_ is that a lot of folks may be just shipping model rocket engines to each other in ordinary parcels, probably not even aware that they're "Breaking The Law"... sort of like the water rocket folks who don't seem to have noticed that they are now covered by our NFPA codes!)
ray: that "your" logic......I never said nor implied that the ROL website be shut down or any other website..All I said is the ROL engine auctions should be shutdown......thats it, nothing more.....
well David, lets first try and change the Laws before we openly advocate breaking them shall we? and you don't get to pick and choose what laws you want to adhere to and those that you don't.... the fact that in your mind a model rocket or hpr motor has a low hazard level, still does not make it right to ship without proper authorization... Don't you get that? Even if YOU and everybody, and I all agree that the legal requirements are onerous in nature, does not give one the right to willfully violate those laws....... Imagaine what kind of country this would be if we could all pick and choose what laws to obey or not to obey..... shockie B)
No, that's an assumption. You are assuming that everyone who sells motors on ROL ships them illegally. It's possible that they could deliver the motors personally, or have the buyer pick it up. It's even possible that a seller might be a vendor who has the capacity to ship legally. The quoted shipping price on the auction is no indicator either, since the seller may be absorbing some of the shipping cost to increase sales.
Ray just described exatly my last experience with ROL motor auctions. Bill Maness was selling(giving)away his stock of 24mm F motors a few years ago. Full on legal shipment all the way. Any one else make out like bandit on the his auctions?
But I gotta admit, considering the auctions I've seen since then, it makes me wonder how some of these sellers are going to transport these motors to the buyer. How far would you drive for a J100 or even a K250?
Ted '3 more F32's for the ViperIII' Novak TRA#5512
I'm curious as to what ebay's excuse is to not allow rocket motors? Do they also bock starter sets that include motors. Can ebay stores sell those starter kits? Do the also ban other hazmat items like paint, model airplane fuel, contact cement, etc. etc.?
Bob Kaplow NAR # 18L TRA # "Impeach the TRA BoD" >>> To reply, remove the TRABoD!
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