Aloha,
We have all talked about Aerotech and their situation till blue in the face. My
question is simply this....WHAT DO WE DO FOR MOTORS NOW?
I have a few Ceaseroni (spelling?) cases. Can they manufacture enough to pick
up the slack?
Jerry can make a wizard motor, but his minimum order is too large to be
reasonable.
Where do we turn for motors?
Larry
Keep buying AT motors. AT is still in production and still shipping motors! Our
local vendor has gobs of AT motors available.
Whatever the outcome of this bankruptcy, most likely either Gary or a new owner
will continue the business, so I don't think there's too much call to worry
about the long term prospects either.
Learned a few lessons recently, many from the kind people on this page.
Go though your rocketry club and mass order.
Check the websites. Red Arrow, Discount Rocketry and Commonwealth.net
normally have some. From other's advice I call before I order, to make sure
they're in stock, regardless of what the web page says.
From these two sources I have 10 motors and another 10 coming in two
weeks.
(Hoarding? Never....).
Oh, and keep on bugging your local shops. I make it a habit every time
I go. I have to hope that Adam Smith's invisible hand still works.
Jeff
"Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity"
Aloha,
Placing an advance paid order with Aerotech is not a guaranty of getting
motors. My friend here in town is/was an Aerotech dealer. He placed an order
with them and pre-paid for this order. When 2 years (yes, thats what I said, 2
freaking years) had passed and he still had no motors, he said to hell with it
and got a refund.
As far as Jerry having certified motors goes...I don't bloody care if they are
certified or not. I want motors to burn. If they are not dependable, I will
post such on the newsgroup. I have my own land, and an umbrella insurance
policy. Certification is nice, but by no means a "must have".
If the governing bodies of rocketry are making it hard for motor makers to get
into the sport in order to keep the market open for the reemergence of
Aerotech, they are doing the sport, and the flyers a disservice.
All we want is motors. We don't really care who they came from.
Larry
Aerotech is supplying more motors now than they have at any point since the
fire. If you can't find them, you aren't looking in the right places.
-- David
That's not fair. Most people use LOCAL distribution access to lower out
of pocket costs and more nearly get them right when they need them.
Only a small minority (under 5%) of sales are by internet or mail order.
Jerry
I didn't realize that. I have no local dealers. I've bought dozens of AT
high-power motors over the past year, and have found everything I need.
-- David
Obviously this must have been an order that was placed at or near the time of
the fire.
You're ignoring all the motors from other manufacturers that have been
certified since the fire.
I HAD certified motors!
They were decertified and NOT for lack of paperwork or failures or
anything, and whatever their excuse was, I never even heard it happened
till MONTHS later. No excuse or justification for that. I STILL have
not been notified of the decert by TRA at my business address where they
sent the certified user lists.
Jerry
What, are you chicken? (No knobs on Jerry's propellant... it makes
Gary's stuff, that has to be shipped as 'explosives', look watered
down by comparison...)
-dave w
I got one from him on an "experimental test" basis - actually
I only paid him for propellant cost; we flew it in his casing -
this was down at an MTA amateur launch a couple of years ago.
As for the present tense plural of your question, e-mail
him and ask directly - do you actually want some, or are
you playing some silly game with the thought of putting
him on the spot somehow?
-dave w
I'll be first in line to buy Jerry motors from a dealer that carrys them at
a launch where I can legally fly them.
Bob Kaplow NAR # 18L TRA # "Impeach the TRA BoD"
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