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Originally Posted by Newbomb Turk
Great work again, Mark. I absolutely love following your rescues.
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Heartily seconded! Also, the Chief Designer's (Spasibo, comrade!) Ebay rescue rocket efforts just inspired an idea:
This might make an interesting--and inspiring--NAR, CAR, JAR, UKRA, etc. new contest category, which could begin as a club activity. Finding, obtaining, and restoring such old and "shopworn" rockets could be engaged in as a judged contest event (it may seem strange, but even the ancient Olympic games included poetry competitions, and even the NAR has a similarly 'esoteric' contest event, the NAR R & D competition, which includes presenting a paper about each contestant's project). Now:
An "Ebay Rescue Rockets" contest (it need not be restricted to Ebay; the "patients" could be rescued at yard sales, church bazaars, estate sales, auctions, flea markets, swap meets, etc.) event could--like the NAR R & D contest event--include the presentation of a report about what each contestant did. Each competitor could be judged on the presentation of his or her report, the rarity of the rocket, and on the degrees of difficulty in finding and restoring the old rocket (the report--backed up by photographs--would document how worn and or damaged the rocket was). Also:
Such a contest event would increase the levels of workmanship (by demonstrating what can be done; for example, mojo1986 posted an illustrated article--"Repairing Rocket Tubes That Have Zippered Along The Seam"--about a new method for repairing body tubes that he invented and found to work very well, see:
http://www.oldrocketforum.com/showt...ck+Brant+repair ). By doing this, it would inspire space modelers, including younger ones, to test, exercise, and strengthen their own powers of resourcefulness, creativity, and workmanship.