12-15-2015, 02:49 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Fairbanks, Alaska
Posts: 6,507
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Originally Posted by BEC
As I have been learning about some of the history of Estes ground support equipment between my leaving the hobby in the early 1970s and my return about six years ago, I've seen all sorts of mixtures - so I'm not surprised some Moon Mutt sets had the black EB and some had the more recent sealed (so you can't get exposed to the lead on the back of the continuity lamp) yellow one.
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I'd wondered what had prompted the change to the encapsulated light bulb. That whole lead-in-toys business was w-a-y too extreme to be sensible (there'd be more danger of a toddler choking on an un-screwed bulb or breaking its glass envelope), but it created more collectable items... :-)
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Originally Posted by BEC
Also, in the course of my getting a bunch of old GSE from eBay I've gotten quite a few motors shipped to me and seen many listed sometimes by themselves despite eBay's supposed policy.
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While I'd never mail any (the regulation against it is ridiculous, but I don't want to be put in a cage), I view them as "bonus items"...(the new Quest MicroMaxx igniters should, in theory, be legal to mail, because they have no pyrogen; they're just wire). |