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Old 07-21-2017, 12:29 AM
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John - nice work!

Lee and others: The Electro-Launch works just beautifully wth 4 modern alkaline D-cells in it (as long as you can give it a flat place to sit). I picked up two of them off of eBay a few years ago and completed the one (it had never been finished and it launched its first rocket in its 49th year) and refurbished the second and I bring them out for the "classics" themed September club launch each year (and occasionally at other times).

I also bring out one of those Launch Control Systems (Doug's post) and an Astron system (the Launch Control System's successor). We use the latter with my original Tilt-a-pad and an early Porta-Pad (also an eBay acquisition). I think this year I'll add in one of the R2D2-shaped launch controllers that came with the Star Wars sets in the 1990s.

I sometimes aspire to the controller John has cloned but haven't worked up what it would take to do that (or a wood-cased Electro-Launch).
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