The packaging of the motors was updated to sho the aerotech designation, and the NAR S&T designation. Alas this too results in confision,b ecause the F39-6 tests as an F39-3 and the F39-9 tests as an F39-6.
So when I say "F39-6", which one am I talking about?
Bob Kaplow NAR # 18L TRA # "Impeach the TRA BoD" >>> To reply, remove the TRABoD!
I'd bet more of the TRA membership agree with Bob's definition of "better" than you think. Of course most sheeple just want to fly rockets and don't care about improving the organization.
No, I'd rather discuss engineering and science related issues. I have no ax to grind with the TRA. "Corrupt" may be too strong a word. There is certainly room for improvement in TRA and its leadership, and TMT. I do not advocate throwing the baby out with the bath water
There is need for certified delay test data, if you can't see it. I agree that providing the test data will not change the "fact" of the MAFA codes being "law" in most states, nor change the NFPA codes themselves.
This is a different issue that you should take up with the motor manufacture. At least the published NAR S&T delay data makes consumers aware of the product that they are using, while TMT hides any such discrepancy from the user. For the most part a manufactures motor designation is just a label, more marketing than truth. The certification test data establishes the performance of a motor and the specs that the manufacture must reasonably maintain to avoid decertification, liability, and fraud problems.
User error has ho bearing on motor testing and availability of results, unless such error is committed during the certification testing.
Why aren't you complaining about the test data or the fact that the test results are 11 years old or the lack of the delay data? Could it be because NAT tested it?
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I hope you are going to treat both organizations equally.
Again you denigrate the membership simply because they disagree with you!
How is that relevant to what I said? I said that providing the delay test data will not alter the fact that delays are permitted to have up to 20% variation. That means that even you had the test data, you'd still have no guarantee of the precision you claim to "need".
So why is NAR certifying motors that don't fall within the required standards of variation?
User error is directly related to the perception (by some) that delays aren't accurate.
It's simple Ray.. Kaplow has no problem with NAR but will slam TRA if he heard from someone else's brother's friend that there might have been a test that this person didn't see 10 years ago!
Kaplow got booted from TRA (for whatever reason) and simply can not see that TRA is doing some good today.. it's blind hatred and that's all..
I sure would hate to be Kaplow's wife if she left the toilet seat down 10 years back.. He'd never let me forget it! ("I pee standing up, and you violated the Kaplow rule of leaving the seat up. I don't care if all the neighbor's wives think "seat down" is the right way - you'll live the "Kaplow way", and will change my email addr, as well as the plates on my car to include "seatup", just so you don't forget!)
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