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Vashion Cold powered rocketry
I was on Vashion island in Washington a few years back, and it reminded me that there used to be a cold powered rocket from a company with the same name. Does anyone have any historical data about the company and the design of the cold powered rocket?
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Basic info, it was sold "into" Estes during the Damon era. Sven has several original catalogs on his NINFINGER site...
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It's actually spelled Vashon, without the I. Here's everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask. http://home.att.net/~cruller1/Vashon.story11.24.00.HTM
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Long Ago, I got a technical support guy from a Vashon Island resident.
He mentioned that the local high school had a display about the company. |
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Small World
Small World I had no idea that there was once a small rocket company on Vashon Island. I live only 10 mile away. WOW Although we here in west sound are have secret plans to bulldoze Vashon Island into the sound to create a land bridge from Bremerton to Seattle.
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Too bad Estes opted to close the Vashon line down. I had one of the Estes-ized cold power rockets and thought they were toooo cool. Not sure what ever happened to it. Does anyone still have any of these models in flyable condition? John --- John Dyer www.redriverrocketry.com |
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If anyone has a cold-power Vashon/Estes rocket in flyable condition, one can use the "new-fangled" R134a refrigerant to propel them instead of the old-fashioned supposedly ozone-depleting R12 refrigerant.
One would have to fashion an adapter to fuel the engine. R134a prices have been rising the past 2yrs though....has went from under $4/can to almost $10/can in my area; supposedly this is due to some new federal tax; seems the gov't does not like not getting the revenue from the exhorbitant tax that was on the old R12 supposedly to discourage use of supposedly environmentally unfriendly products, thus they place some idiotic tax on a product that does NOTHING to deplete Ozone.
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I have to say the kits are great and it's nice to fly something a bit different although I wouldn't recommend doing it in the cold
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The last time I was at John Pursley's house (several weekends ago) we just happened to
talk about the Vashon Cold Powered rocketry. He thought they were really neat (as I did too). Back when I belonged to the Ark-La-Tex Model Rocketry Club (NAR Section from Bossier City, LA way back in the early 1970's), we were finished flying at our club launch and leaving to go home, and came upon several kids trying to launch one of those Vashon rockets. One kid pulled the metal ring from the nozzle, and the cold powered model went unstable as it left the launch rod. Landed several feet away. The club president gave the boys a brochure of the NAR and our club and we left. That was the only time I've ever seen a cold powered model launch attempt.
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Vashon rocketry
I still have a Vashon kit with a replacement nozzle from the Vashon company. I have read through the links talking about the way to use the cold air from the Testors Air brush bottle and have tried it a few times with good success.
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