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Heck, I've got plenty of 10yo+ motors in my stash Doug .
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I still have 1/2A6-2s, A10-0Ts, and A8-5s that are nearly or more 20 years old. Those still work fine. Aerotech motors and reloads that I have from that era are suspect in the best case to unusable in the worst case. YMMV.
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That's the same guy............. |
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I've had the exact same idea... Perhaps by creating a new shutter for my original Camroc. I'd like it to film on the way up (through a new hole adjacent to the actual shutter), then when the camera would have taken the picture, the shutter would actuate (perhaps freezing a frame at that moment), then would continue to film on the way down through another hole. Pointy Side Up! Jim .
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The place I bought most of my rocketry supplies locally was Johnny's Toys. They closed about five years ago, but when I got back into the hobby in 2001 they still had quite a few pink motor packs still left in stock, oddly enough behind the current stock and COBRA motors. Probably not a lot of stuff still left on shelves out there, but at one time I would guess that quite a few old hobby shops had old stock on the shelves.
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How do you really know? Who's to say the buyer of the stapled one isn't just going to put it in a new (old) bag and heat seal it? I have no proof but I strongly suspect that some of what gets sold as original on eBay is "re-originalized." |
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No, I really got my Astron Delta in 1979 or 1980.
A local guy had a stash of a garage-ful and a basement-ful of vintage kits through about 1989. Many kits were original late 60's including my first Estes Little Joe II and Astron Ranger. He had tons of Centuri Saturn V's, 1B's, and Little Joe II's but he always wanted way too much for those. His vintage Estes and Centuri stuff sold for typical catalog prices from the years of their manufacture. I have no idea how he got so many kits and never asked. I always got my FSI and Composite Dynamics engines from this guy; he sold them for 50 cents on the dollar of retail. He sold Estes 18mm engines for 50 cents each, and 24mm engines for 75 cents each. I bought a TON of Cox D8-3's and D8-0's from him along with quite a few AVI engines as well. I graduated high school with this guy's son and still am friends with him on facebook. I know he sold off the remains of his entire collection (still filled a 2-car garage) sometime in the early 90's and he still lives in the same house about 5 miles from the home I grew up in.
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